"Rural Population" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The inhabitants of rural areas or of small towns classified as rural.
| Descriptor ID |
D012424
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N01.600.725
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| Concept/Terms |
Rural Population- Rural Population
- Population, Rural
- Populations, Rural
- Rural Populations
Rural Spatial Distribution- Rural Spatial Distribution
- Distribution, Rural Spatial
- Distributions, Rural Spatial
- Rural Spatial Distributions
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Rural Population".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Rural Population".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Rural Population" by people in this website by year, and whether "Rural Population" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2013 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2014 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2015 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2016 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2017 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 2018 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2019 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2022 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2025 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Rural Population" by people in Profiles.
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Social Networks Influence Vaccine Confidence in Rural Black Americans. Fam Community Health. 2026 Apr-Jun 01; 49(2):90-100.
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Planning for implementation scale-up of a medication for opioid use disorder program across rural Colorado: Ensuring fit to context. Eval Program Plann. 2026 Apr; 115:102749.
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Development of a Diabetes Rural Stakeholder Research Team and Patient-Centered Research Agenda. OTJR (Thorofare N J). 2026 Apr; 46(2):203-212.
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Associations of rural-urban residence with daily experiences of minority stress and tobacco use among sexual minority young adults. Addict Behav. 2026 Jan; 172:108525.
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Community mitigation decisions in elephant conflict zones of southern India depend on environmental and socio-economic drivers. Sci Rep. 2025 Oct 06; 15(1):34693.
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Digitally Mediated Occupational Therapy to Increase Physical Activity in Urban and Rural Breast Cancer Survivors: Protocol for a Single-Arm Feasibility Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 Sep 26; 14:e73554.
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Healthcare professionals' perspectives on improving care coordination between palliative and cancer care for rural older adults: A qualitative study. J Geriatr Oncol. 2025 Sep; 16(7):102301.
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Evaluating impacts of improved flooring on enteric and parasitic infections in rural households in Kenya: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2025 Jun 06; 15(6):e090464.
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Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine market survey at agro-veterinary stores in rural and peri-urban areas of Nigeria. Gates Open Res. 2025; 9:40.
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Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene for Everyone Intervention Study: Protocol for a Controlled Before-and-After Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 May 15; 14:e68280.