"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 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Rural Population" by people in Profiles.
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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.
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Mobile Health-Based Motivational Interviewing to Promote SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination in Rural Adults: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 Apr 28; 14:e64010.
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Determining what matters: data resources for examining maternal health equity. Front Public Health. 2025; 13:1499468.
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Rural-urban movement and stability in relation to minority stress-related factors, tobacco norms, and tobacco use among a sample of US sexual minority-identifying young adults. J Rural Health. 2025 Jan; 41(1):e70016.
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Rural-urban Residence, Minority Stress, and Tobacco Use among Sexual and Gender Minority Young Adults in Oklahoma and Surrounding States. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2025; 36(3):943-970.
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Coping strategies for household water insecurity in rural Gambia, mediating factors in the relationship between weather, water and health. BMC Public Health. 2024 Nov 13; 24(1):3150.
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Associations between COVID-19 therapies and outcomes in rural and urban America: A multisite, temporal analysis from the Alpha to Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variants. J Rural Health. 2025 01; 41(1):e12857.