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[–] Kyle@lemmy.ca 40 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Hmm looks like some stats I pulled were from polls, and I fell victim to people paraphrasing that around 20% of rural people not having a primary care doctor in the last few years as "not even having seen a doctor" sorry about that.

40% of Americans haven't seen a doctor in 5 years: https://studyfinds.org/americans-avoiding-the-doctor/ https://www.aarp.org/pri/topics/health/coverage-access/health-care-rural-america/?

But the limited stats on primary care and a lot of self reporting is very bad.

62% parasites infection: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.10.23284404v1.full

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7253135/#%3A%7E%3Atext=Overall%2C+67.4%25+of%2Ca+community+where

Typing in "southern united states rural primary care access" in Kagi has a lot of sad results.

[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 12 points 5 days ago

You got the fucking receipts

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Thank you! They are some wild numbers.