Assisting primary care teams and patients in a culturally diverse periphery: impact on medical students' future career choices.

Background: Medical students can assist in reducing healthcare disparities and promote health equity by engaging with rural communities and gaining insights into their unique healthcare needs. A two-arm student-delivered program was designed and implemented during COVID-19 in a social-geographic peripheral area to assist clinics with complex chronic and/or socially disadvantaged patients and improve preventive behavior in townships through home visits delivering community kits.

Methods: We conducted a pre-post design study which included weekly structured medical student reports and monthly structured telephone interviews with clinic directors and municipal partners.

Shaping health: conducting a community health needs assessment in culturally diverse peripheral population groups.

Introduction: The impact of social determinants on health status and outcomes has been widely established. However, it is recognized that health systems' ability to address community health needs may be limited. To better understand the interrelation between social determinants of health and health outcomes, health systems need to understand the health concerns and needs of populations.

Choice of Transport to Hospital in Nonurban Areas in Life-Threatening Situations: A Qualitative Research.

The time it takes to begin treatment in life-threatening situations is critical. Ambulance transport to the hospital in such situations ensures quick and effective treatment but is not always readily available in nonurban areas, or not preferred by the public, for various reasons. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the factors that deter or encourage ambulance use in life-threatening situations in the geographic periphery from clients' perspectives.