How Can Better Rural Health Be Developed?

The article presents information on ways to develop better rural health. The tragic need of security against illness has been revealed in many studies of the problem. On an average day of the year four million persons are disabled by illness. During one year-1935-approximately twenty-two million cases of disabling illness, lasting seven days or more, occurred with a loss of one billion, two hundred and fifty million days from work, home or school, as reported by the U.S. Public Health Service. Through reports on the physical examinations for selectees and through reported studies on the family health situation in many areas, the need for improved health and increased availability of health service facilities has come to the attention of the public and has become increasingly more important. Modern medical science is far in advance of medical practice available to and accepted by rural people. Doctors generally recognize this fact and are usually ready and willing to plan with lay people to improve the health situation. So much depends on good health-life, happiness, work, success, even the survival of a nation.