Understanding and addressing the unique health needs of people residing in rural America is critical to the American Heart Association's pursuit of a world with longer, healthier lives. Improving the health of rural populations is consistent with the American Heart Association's commitment to health equity and its focus on social determinants of health to reduce and ideally to eliminate health disparities. This presidential advisory serves as a call to action for the American Heart Association and other stakeholders to make rural populations a priority in programming, research, and policy. This advisory first summarizes existing data on rural populations, communities, and health outcomes; explores 3 major groups of factors underlying urban-rural disparities in health outcomes, including individual factors, social determinants of health, and health delivery system factors; and then proposes a set of solutions spanning health system innovation, policy, and research aimed at improving rural health.

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行动呼吁：农村健康：美国心脏协会和美国中风协会的总统咨询。

了解和解决居住在美国农村地区的人们的独特健康需求对于美国心脏协会追求更长寿、更健康的世界至关重要。改善农村人口的健康与美国心脏协会对健康公平的承诺及其关注健康的社会决定因素以减少和理想地消除健康差距是一致的。该总统咨询呼吁美国心脏协会和其他利益相关者采取行动，将农村人口作为规划、研究和政策的优先事项。该咨询首先总结了有关农村人口、社区和健康结果的现有数据；探讨了造成城乡健康结果差异的三大主要因素，包括个人因素、健康的社会决定因素、和卫生服务系统因素；然后提出一套涵盖卫生系统创新、政策和研究的解决方案，旨在改善农村健康。