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Mental health in rural areas: experience in south Cambridgeshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

A. J. Smith  and
R. Ramana
R. Ramana*
Affiliation:
Box 35, Addenbrooke's Hospital Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QQ
*
∗Correspondence
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Mental health morbidity is perceived as being predominantly urban based. Little is known about the health of the UK's rural residents. This paper summarises existing knowledge of rural health and social indicators. There is a relative dearth of information in this area making the application of urban-based (and biased) factors perhaps unreliable. Some rural areas have levels of deprivation similar to urban areas, even using urban-biased factors, though they encounter specific problems of service provision and accessibility. Currently, there seems to be no valid method of measuring rural deprivation and comparing it with urban deprivation. We highlight this inequality by describing discrepancies in day care provision between urban and rural areas.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , May 1998 , pp. 280 - 284
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Copyright © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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