Journal of Rural Health

《Journal of Rural Health》是 1985 年创办的季刊，由美国农村卫生协会主办，Wiley 出版。

刊物发表与农村人口健康相关的研究，涵盖健康行为、卫生人力、政策与可及性，并接受定量、定性与混合方法。

2025 年期刊影响因子为 3.2，五年影响因子为 4.0，在卫生政策与服务 125 种期刊中排第 30 位。

Scope

• Health status and behaviour among rural populations are the starting point, including chronic disease, mental health and substance use.农村人口的健康状况与行为是出发点，包括慢性病、心理健康与物质使用。
• Rural health workforce studies examine recruitment, retention, scope of practice and the distribution of primary care clinicians.农村卫生人力研究考察招聘、留存、执业范围以及基层临床人员的分布。
• Access to care is analysed through distance, transportation, broadband and the availability of services after hospital closures.可及性通过距离、交通、宽带以及医院关闭之后的服务供给得到分析。
• Rural health policy papers evaluate insurance design, reimbursement and federal programmes aimed at underserved areas.农村卫生政策论文评估保险设计、支付方式以及面向欠发达地区的联邦项目。
• Telehealth research looks at uptake, quality and equity, including the persistence of the digital divide in rural counties.远程医疗研究考察使用率、质量与公平，包括农村县数字鸿沟的持续存在。
• Maternal and perinatal care is a recurring theme, with work on maternity care deserts and obstetric unit closures.孕产与围产期照护是反复出现的主题，研究产科服务空白与产科病房关闭。
• Ageing and long-term care in rural settings are studied through home care, nursing homes and caregiver burden.农村环境中的老龄化与长期照护通过居家照护、养老机构与照护者负担得到研究。
• Agricultural and occupational health covers injury, pesticide exposure and the health of farm families.农业与职业健康涵盖伤害、农药暴露以及农场家庭的健康。
• Children and adolescents are studied through school health, developmental services and child poverty.儿童与青少年通过学校卫生、发展服务与儿童贫困得到研究。
• Veterans and indigenous populations appear in work that pairs national datasets with local context.退伍军人与原住民群体出现在把全国数据与地方情境结合的研究中。
• Rural-urban disparities in mortality, cancer screening and preventive care are measured rather than assumed.死亡率、癌症筛查与预防保健上的城乡差异是被测量的，而不是被预设的。
• Community engagement and participatory methods are welcome when they change how a programme is designed or delivered.当社区参与与参与式方法改变项目的设计或实施时，这类研究受到欢迎。
• Implementation studies report what happened when an evidence-based programme was taken to scale in a rural health system.实施研究报告循证项目在农村卫生系统中推广时实际发生的情况。
• Economic analyses include cost, workforce productivity and the fiscal viability of rural hospitals.经济分析包括成本、劳动力生产率以及农村医院的财务可持续性。
• Qualitative work is judged on sampling, reflexivity and the transferability of findings to other rural places.质性研究以抽样、反思性以及结论向其他农村地区迁移的能力作为评判标准。
• Papers with an international rural health perspective are accepted alongside United States studies.具有国际农村卫生视角的论文与美国研究一并被接受。
• The journal also publishes commentaries, book reviews and letters, which carry shorter arguments than full articles.刊物也发表评论、书评与来信，这些体裁的论证比完整论文更简短。
• Authors are expected to state the practical implication of their findings for rural providers, programmes or policy.作者须说明研究结论对农村服务提供者、项目或政策的实际意义。

• Rural pharmacy and emergency medical services are studied as access points that can substitute for a closed hospital.农村药房与急救医疗服务被当作可以替代已关闭医院的就医入口加以研究。
• Food insecurity and housing instability appear as social conditions that shape rural health outcomes.食物不安全与住房不稳定作为塑造农村健康结局的社会条件出现。

History

• The journal was founded in 1985 under the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association.该刊于 1985 年在美国农村卫生协会与全国农村卫生保健协会的名义下创办。
• Those organisations merged into the National Rural Health Association, which remains the journal's owner and sponsoring society.这两个组织后来合并为全国农村卫生协会，该协会至今是刊物的所有者与主办学会。
• Blackwell Publishing produced the journal for many years, and Wiley continued the arrangement after the two houses merged.布莱克韦尔出版公司多年负责出版，两家公司合并后由 Wiley 延续这一安排。
• The journal has appeared quarterly, in four issues a year, with occasional supplements on rural policy topics.刊物一直为季刊，每年四期，并偶尔就农村政策主题出版增刊。
• Rural health research in the 1980s focused on hospital viability, and the journal's early pages reflect that concern.1980 年代的农村卫生研究关注医院生存问题，刊物早期版面反映了这一关切。
• Through the 1990s the journal widened to workforce and access questions as rural closures accelerated.1990 年代农村关闭加速，刊物的范围扩展到人力与可及性问题。
• The 2000s brought telehealth and quality measurement into the journal's core subject matter.2000 年代远程医疗与质量测量进入刊物的核心选题。
• Impact factors ran at 4.333 in 2021, 5.667 in 2022, 3.1 in 2023, 2.7 in 2024 and 3.2 in 2025.影响因子在 2021 年为 4.333，2022 年为 5.667，2023 年为 3.1，2024 年为 2.7，2025 年为 3.2。
• The 2025 report counted 3956 citations, 104 articles and 108 citable items.2025 年报告统计该刊被引 3956 次，论文 104 篇，可引用条目 108 项。
• About 43 percent of recent content is gold open access, through the publisher's open licence option.近期内容约有 43% 为金色开放获取，经由出版方的开放许可选项实现。
• The title is indexed in MEDLINE and PubMed, the Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index.该刊被 MEDLINE 与 PubMed、科学引文索引扩展版以及社会科学引文索引收录。
• It holds positions in three JCR categories, with health policy and services as the strongest at Q1.该刊在三个 JCR 类别中都有位置，其中卫生政策与服务最强，处于 Q1。
• The other two categories are health care sciences and services, and public, environmental and occupational health.另外两个类别是卫生保健与服务，以及公共卫生、环境与职业健康。
• Submissions are handled through ScholarOne, and the editorial office sits with the editor at the University of Kentucky.稿件通过 ScholarOne 处理，编辑部设在主编所在的肯塔基大学。

Editors

• Tyrone F. Borders of the University of Kentucky is editor, and directs the university's Rural and Underserved Health Research Center.肯塔基大学的 Tyrone F. Borders 是主编，并主持该校的农村与欠发达地区卫生研究中心。
• Borders has written on substance use treatment in rural areas and on Medicaid policy in Appalachian counties.Borders 在农村地区物质使用治疗与阿巴拉契亚各县的医疗补助政策方面著述较多。
• Julia Cecil is managing editor and runs the journal's day-to-day review and production schedule.Julia Cecil 是执行编辑，负责刊物的日常评审与出版进度。
• Carrie Henning-Smith of the University of Minnesota chairs the editorial board and studies rural health equity and ageing.明尼苏达大学的 Carrie Henning-Smith 担任编委会主席，研究农村卫生公平与老龄化。
• Demetrius Abshire of South Carolina brings nursing science and chronic illness management to the board.南卡罗来纳大学的 Demetrius Abshire 把护理科学与慢病管理带入编委会。
• Britta Anderson at NORC and Holly Andrilla at Washington contribute programme evaluation and rural workforce data.NORC 的 Britta Anderson 与华盛顿大学的 Holly Andrilla 带来项目评估与农村人力数据。
• Angeline Bushy and Elizabeth Crouch represent nursing and child health, at Central Florida and South Carolina respectively.Angeline Bushy 与 Elizabeth Crouch 分别代表护理与儿童健康，任职于中佛罗里达大学与南卡罗来纳大学。
• Mary Charlton and Jan Eberth, both at South Carolina, work on rural cancer prevention and screening.同在南卡罗来纳大学的 Mary Charlton 与 Jan Eberth 研究农村癌症预防与筛查。
• Alva Ferdinand at Texas A&M brings health law and policy, and Nathan Hale at East Tennessee State brings pharmacy practice.得克萨斯农工大学的 Alva Ferdinand 带来卫生法与政策，东田纳西州立大学的 Nathan Hale 带来药学实践。
• Yvonne Jonk and Manorama Khare add health economics and community health, from Maine and Illinois.Yvonne Jonk 与 Manorama Khare 分别从缅因州与伊利诺伊州带来卫生经济学与社区健康。
• David Schmitz and Shawnda Schroeder represent rural family medicine and rural health research at North Dakota.David Schmitz 与 Shawnda Schroeder 代表北达科他州的农村家庭医学与农村卫生研究。
• Whitney Zahnd at Iowa and Miku Sodhi at Shasta Cascade Health Centers connect the board to cancer disparities and to rural clinic practice.爱荷华大学的 Whitney Zahnd 与 Shasta Cascade 卫生中心的 Miku Sodhi 把编委会与癌症差异研究和农村诊所实践相连。
• Reviewers are asked to weigh methodological rigour against practical relevance, and the board meets annually to set priorities.审稿人须在方法严谨与实践相关性之间权衡，编委会每年开会确定优先方向。