tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7171420941776673660.post883445368742507250..comments2024-03-28T02:29:13.507-07:00Comments on Legal Ruralism: Adolescence, health, and rural California.Lisa R. Pruitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16469550950363542801noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7171420941776673660.post-63028272416164223452015-10-21T10:19:27.680-07:002015-10-21T10:19:27.680-07:00The numbers are shocking. I don't quite know...The numbers are shocking. I don't quite know what to say beyond that. The disproportionate location of health centers in schools is perhaps the thing that is most troubling to me (beyond the money spent in prisons instead spent on kids). Only 22 in rural areas. I understand that there is a cost benefit analysis that goes on, and that simply maintaining the infrastructure in rural areas dramatically increases costs, because rural California cannot support the economies of scale that its coastal cities maintain. <br /><br />But still. We know the Central Valley is in constant non-attainment of CAA regulations. We know that agriculture and rural work has negative impacts on health; and yet the state is still content to not invest in providing adequate healthcare in those areas. A re-evaluation of state priorities would certainly be beneficial--along with some cost trimming from urban-centralized bureaucracy to allow more funding to reach the rural areas where it is needed more. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06057791046047357166noreply@blogger.com