"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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Tobacco retail characteristics across urban and rural districts in Lao PDR: an observational study, 2024. Front Public Health. 2026; 14:1784257.
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Development and Validation of a Grading Scale to Predict Functional Outcome in Acute Stroke Patients Treated With intravenous Thrombolytics in the Rural Setting. Neurologist. 2026 Mar 01; 31(2):27-31.
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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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Optimizing mobile mammography deployment in Oklahoma 2024: a two-step floating catchment area approach. Geospat Health. 2026 Feb 02; 21(1).
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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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Study team perspectives on a multisite randomized clinical trial with underserved rural populations: A mixed methods feasibility analysis. PLoS One. 2025; 20(9):e0333229.
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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.