United States

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United States [mh] OR “united states” OR usa OR u.s.a. OR Appalachia* OR “great lakes” OR mid-atlantic-state* OR mid-atlantic-region* OR middle-atlantic-state* OR middle-atlantic-region* OR midwestern-us* OR midwestern-u.s* OR Midwestern-state* OR Midwest-state* OR Midwest-us* OR Midwest-u.s* OR “great plains” OR heartland OR “new england” OR northeastern-us* OR northeastern-u.s* OR northeastern-state* OR northeast-state* OR northeast-us* OR northeast-u.s* OR “pacific northwest” OR northwestern-us* OR northwestern-u.s* OR northwest-u.s* OR northwest-us* OR northwestern-state* OR northwest-state* OR pacific-state* OR southeast-state* OR southeastern-state* OR southeast-region OR southeastern-region OR southeast-us* OR southeastern-us* OR southeast-u.s* OR southeastern-u.s* OR southern-state* OR southern-us* OR southern-u.s* OR southwest-state* OR southwestern-state* OR southwest-us* OR southwestern-us* OR southwest-u.s* OR southwestern-u.s* OR “deep south” OR “black belt” OR “rust belt” OR “district of Columbia” OR “Washington dc” OR Washington-d.c. OR Alabama OR (Birmingham [ad] AND al [ad]) OR Huntsville [ad] OR (Montgomery [ad] AND al [ad])OR Alaska OR anchorage [ad] OR fairbanks [ad] OR Arizona OR Phoenix [ad] OR Tuscon [ad] OR Flagstaff [ad] OR Arkansas OR “little rock” OR California OR “los angeles” OR “san diego” OR “san Francisco” OR Berkeley [ad] OR Stanford [ad] OR Colorado OR Vail [ad] OR Denver [ad] OR Connecticut OR Farmington [ad] OR “new haven” [ad] OR Hartford [ad] OR Delaware OR Wilmington [ad] OR Newark [ad] OR Florida OR Miami [ad] OR Gainesville OR Jacksonville OR Tampa OR Tallahassee OR Georgia OR Atlanta OR (Athens [ad] AND ga [ad]) OR (Augusta [ad] AND ga [ad]) OR Hawaii OR Hawai'i OR Honolulu OR Idaho OR Boise [ad] OR Illinois OR Chicago OR Urbana [ad] OR Evanston [ad] OR Indiana OR Indianapolis OR "West Lafayette" OR Iowa OR Kansas OR Wichita OR Kentucky OR Lexington [ad] OR Louisville [ad] OR Bardstown [ad] OR Louisiana OR “new Orleans” OR “baton rouge” OR Shreveport OR Maine OR Orono OR (Scarborough [ad] AND me [ad]) OR Maryland OR Bethesda [ad] OR Baltimore [ad] OR Rockville [ad] OR “johns Hopkins” OR Massachusetts OR Boston OR Harvard OR (worcester [ad] AND ma [ad]) OR Burlington [ad] OR Michigan OR Detroit OR “ann arbor” OR “east lansing” OR Minnesota OR Minneapolis OR Rochester OR “st paul” [ad] OR “saint paul” [ad] OR Mississippi OR (Jackson [ad] AND ms [ad]) OR Missouri OR (Columbia [ad] AND mo [ad]) OR Montana OR Bozeman [ad] OR Missoula OR Nebraska OR Omaha [ad] OR Lincoln [ad] OR Nevada OR “Las Vegas” OR “New Hampshire” OR “New Jersey” OR “New Mexico” OR “New York” OR “North Carolina” OR “North Dakota” OR Ohio OR Columbus [ad] OR Cleveland [ad] OR Cincinnati OR Oklahoma OR Oregon OR Portland [ad] OR Pennsylvania OR Philadelphia OR Hershey [ad] OR “Rhode Island” OR providence [ad] OR “South Carolina” OR “South Dakota” OR Tennessee OR Nashville OR Memphis OR Texas OR Houston OR Utah OR Vermont OR Virginia OR Richmond [ad] OR Washington [tiab] OR Washington [ad] OR Seattle OR “West Virginia” OR Wisconsin OR Wyoming

Latin, Central and South America -- MeSH and Keywords

An initial stab at a PubMed search for articles mentioning Latin America:

"Caribbean Region"[Mesh] OR "Central America"[Mesh] OR "Latin America"[Mesh] OR "South America"[Mesh] OR Antigu* OR Argentin* OR Arub* OR Bahama* OR Barbad* OR Barbud* OR Belize OR Bolivi* OR Brazil* OR “Caicos Islands” OR Caribbean OR “Cayman Islands” OR “Central America” OR Chile* OR Colombi* OR Costa Ric* OR Cuba OR cuban OR Dominic* OR “Dominican Republic” OR Ecuador* OR “El Salvador” OR Salvadorian* OR “French Guiana” OR Grenad* OR Grenadines OR Guadeloup* OR Guatemal* OR Guyan* OR Haiti* OR Hondura* OR Jamaic* OR Martiniq* OR Mexic* OR Nicaragu* OR Panam* OR Paragua* OR Peru* OR “Puerto Rico” OR “puerto rican” OR “Saint Barthélemy” OR “st. barts” OR “South America” OR “south american” OR “south americans” OR “St. Kitts” OR “St. Lucia” OR “saint lucia”  OR nevis OR  “St. Vincent” OR “saint vincent” OR Surinam* OR Trinidad* OR  Tobag* OR Turks  OR Urugua* OR Venezuel* OR “Virgin Islands”

rural -- keywords

EMBASE version 2/6/2025: 

(Rural OR frontier* OR wilderness OR countryside OR outback* OR outstation* OR outpost* OR farm OR farms OR farming OR farmer* OR orchard* OR vineyard* OR ranch* OR non-metropolitan OR non-urban OR “northern territory land council*” OR “native title” OR village* OR hamlet* OR “small town*” OR settlement* OR ranger* OR “australian bush” OR “australian bushland” OR “indian reservation*” OR ((native OR indigenous OR aborigin* OR “first nation*” OR tribe* OR tribal)  NEAR/3 (reserv*  OR  “protected area*” OR outstation* OR homeland* OR community OR communities )) OR ((Remote OR isolated OR agricultural) NEAR/3 (commun* OR area* OR town* OR region* OR site* OR location* OR zone* OR county OR counties OR reserv* OR compound* OR colony OR colonies OR encampment*  )) ):ab,kw,jt,ti

consider ORing kibbutz* to commun*

PubMed 6/15/11:
(Rural* OR agricultur* OR wilderness* OR frontier* OR ((tribal OR tribe OR tribes OR native OR indian) AND reservation*) OR farmer OR farmers OR farming OR farm OR farms OR nonurban* OR "non-urban"  OR remote OR outback* OR isolated OR "small town" OR "small towns" OR village* OR settlement*)

"remote" OR isolated  can cause problems with irrelevant results.  However, they work in some searches.   The following "isolate ___" OR "remote ____" phrases may work better  in some searches -- 

“remote area” OR “remote areas” OR “remote region” OR “remote regions” OR “isolated area” OR “isolated areas”  OR "isolated region" OR "isolated regions"  OR "remote location" OR "remote locations" OR "isolated location" OR "isolated locations" OR  "remote site" OR "remote sites" OR "isolated site" OR "isolated sites" 


In some searches the terms -- 
nonurban OR nonmetropolitan OR "non-urban" OR "non-metropolitan"  
-- may be important.  However, these may retrieve content concernign suburban areas.
 

Depending on the search topic, the searcher may wish to OR in 

--the names of native tribes and/or native peoples, e.g. 

eskimo* OR "first people" OR "first peoples" OR aborigin* ...

-- terms for migrant laborers

migrant* OR 

-- terms for other people groups who tend to live in rural settings

amish OR hutterite* ...

-- names of various farm animals, farm equipment, farm buildings, farm activities, crops, diseases associated with farming,  (although depending on other search concepts, some of these might cause retrieval of an overwhelming number of irrelevant results)

plow OR plows OR till OR tills OR tilling OR tilled OR plant OR plants OR  planting OR planted OR  tiller* OR harvest* OR horticultur* OR bovine OR cow OR cows OR heifer* OR steer* OR bull OR bulls OR beef OR sheep OR lamb OR lambs OR goat* OR chicken* OR porcine OR pig OR pigs OR sow OR sows OR horse OR horses OR equine OR mare OR mares OR silo OR silos OR barn OR barns OR coop OR coops  OR dairy OR dairies OR stable OR stables  OR "cow pox".... 

 

urban -- keywords

(urban* OR metropoli* OR metropolitan* OR megalopoli* OR city OR cities OR city-dweller*)

Depending on the search topic, the searcher may also wish to OR in terms typical of city life "heavy traffic" OR smog OR crowding OR crowded OR overpopulated OR over-populated OR "heavily populated" OR "densely populated" OR industrial* OR factory OR factories 

South Asia -- keywords

I haven't actually used this search.  I was asked for a list of south asia terms and came up with these quickly.  They're based on the broadest definition of south asia, and not all terms will be useful to all users.  Also I've omitted a few terms that are, character for character but not in meaning, equivalent to commonly used English terms/names (e.g. karen, male).

"south asia" OR "southern asia" OR "Diego Garcia" OR Afghanistan* OR Ahmedabad* OR Aldabra* OR Amritsar OR Arabian Sea Asomiya OR Assamese OR Austro-Asiatic OR Bahawalpur* OR Balochi OR Baluchi OR Bangalor* OR Bangladesh* OR Barod* OR bengal* OR BIOT OR Bhutan* OR Bodo* OR Brahmij* OR "British Indian Ocean Territory" OR Burma OR Burma OR Burmese OR Burmese OR Calcutt* OR Ceylon* OR Chagos OR Chagossians OR Chennai* OR Cochin* OR Colombo* OR Dari* OR Delhi* OR Desroch* OR Devanagar* OR Dhaka* OR Dhiveh* OR "Diego Garcia" OR Dogri OR Dravidian* OR Dzongkh* OR Farquhar* OR Folhavah* OR gujarat* OR Gurmukhij* OR Gwalior* OR Himalay* OR Hindi OR Hindu* OR Hollhav* OR Hyderabad* OR Hydrabad* OR India OR "Indian Ocean" OR "Indian Plate" OR Indo-Aryan OR Indo-Gangetic OR Indo-Iranian OR "Indus River" OR Iran OR Iranian OR Islamabad* OR Jammu* OR Jingph* OR Kabul* OR Kalat* OR Kannad* OR Karach* OR Kashmir* OR Kathmand* OR Khayrpur* OR Konkan* OR "Kuen Lun" OR Kushan* OR Lahor* OR Lakshadweep* OR Lhas* OR Maithil* OR Malayalam* OR Maldiv* OR Manipur* OR Marath* OR Maurit* OR Moghul* OR Mon OR Mumbai OR Mysor* OR Nepal* OR Oriy* OR pakistan* OR Pashti OR Pashtu OR Pashtuns OR Persian* OR Perso-arabi*. OR Peshawar* OR PRC-Tibet OR Pune OR Punjab* OR Raj* OR Sakas OR Sanskrit* OR Santhal* OR Seychell* OR Shahmukh* OR Shan OR Sikkim* OR Sindh* OR Sinhal* OR Siraik* OR "south asia" OR "Sri Lanka" OR "sri lankan" OR Surat* OR Suvadiv* OR Swat OR tamil*. OR Tana OR Tehran* OR Telug* OR Thimp* OR Tibet OR Tibetan OR Tibeto-Burman* OR Turk* OR Urdu* OR Yangon*