According to the study carried out by the Association of Rural Mayors of France, a child born in a rural area will have a shorter life expectancy than if he had been born in town. In this study, the association also notes an average excess mortality of more than 14,000 deaths each year in the countryside.
It is a profound injustice linked to the health system: the French live longer in the city than in the countryside, and the gap is widening. According to a study carried out by the Association of Rural Mayors of France (AMRF), a child born in a rural area has a shorter life expectancy than if he had been born in town. The study also shows an average excess mortality of more than 14,000 deaths each year in the countryside.
“No field medicine”
For Michel Fournier, president of the AMRF, this is explained above all by the difficulty of accessing care. “There may be a city doctor, but there is no country medicine”, he underlines at the microphone of Europe 1. According to him, the explanation is very simple. “A whole set of professionals have retired and they have not been replaced because we have turned off the tap. With the numerus clausus, we simply pay for what was decided twenty or thirty years ago. years”, laments Michel Fournier.
The president of the AMRF specifies all the same to have proposed, at the end of the course, to encourage and to ensure that there is a compulsory passage in territories in difficulty. “It is not necessarily followed and yet it would have made it possible to understand that in the end, we could find our way around very well. There is also culture in the rural environment and different advantages. You have to experience it at some point given to get to understand it and say ‘why not'”, he concludes. Countryside or city, it will therefore be necessary to make a choice.
Source: Europe1
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