Definition of Rural Community

The concept of rural community is the one that is applied to those types of populations that live in natural spaces and that depend on primary economies in which activities such as livestock or farming are main for the generation of food and other items that will later be used for basic subsistence (such as fabrics or coats). Rural communities are still quite simple today when it comes to their quality of life, not counting with too much influence of technology (in most cases, with zero influence) and maintaining in many cases structures of thought quite traditional.

A rural community can be essentially described as a group of people who live together in the same space and who They carry out economic activities for the benefit of the members of the group, that is, to be usufruct by themselves themselves. The rural community is also a group of people who live in open and natural spaces such as the countryside and who maintain a close relationship with nature, flora and fauna, characteristics that urban centers have largely lost measure.

To better understand a rural community, we can also add that they are usually relatively small since they do not show a continuing trend towards population growth (as urban centers and large cities do) if not showing an ease towards demographic decline that can be generated by various causes (emigration in search of better living conditions, lack of resources to face diseases, etc.). However, it is estimated at the same time that those who live in rural communities show less exposition to health complications typical of urban centers such as stress, contamination, the violence, the unsafety and many diseases characteristic of the modern lifestyle such as different types of cancer.