Population Population At Risk - 2246 Words

Population at risk Since decades, health of population has been affected by geographic location and surrounding environment. Therefore, it is obvious that there would be a difference in the health status of the population of rural and urban areas. The urban and rural populations are differentiated by varieties of socio economic, demographic and educational factors. The people in urban areas usually have high standard of living, financial status and education level in comparison to people in rural areas. While focusing on the rural areas in Missouri, one such rural population exists in Dade County, Missouri. It is located in southwest Missouri with population size of 7,628, and it is ranked 101 in Missouri in terms of population size†¦show more content†¦Most of the people in Dade County are self-employed based on agriculture, fishing and mining industries, and some people are also engaged in administrative, professional, management and science related sectors for their living (City Data, 2014) . However, the Dade County has 6 percent unemployment rate in 2014, and 18.4 % of the people in the county are considered to be poor in 2013, which is quite higher than Missouri rate of poverty (Missouri Department of Mental Health, 2015). At the same time, the median household income in Dade County is $35,146 in 2013, which is reasonably low than Missouri median household income (City Data, 2014). The people in Dade County are sparsely distributed along the region of the county, so people have their own means of transportation, and there is lack of public transportation, so people are almost communicating to the different places everyday by their own vehicles. Moreover, the education level in the rural community makes them clearly distinguished from urban population, because the education has a major impact on the understanding and thinking of the people’s way of living their life. , the 78.5% of the population who are 25 and above age in the rural County have their high school degree or higher, and 9.9 percent of the same age group has their bachelor’s degree or higher, and 134 students are currently enrolled in College (City Data, 2014). Overall, most of the people in the county are limited to their high school level of