Tennessee, Texas, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, and essentially the southern states of the nation are the worst affected. Mobile health clinics represent promising vehicles through which high quality, cost-effective care can be delivered to patients, especially in underserved areas.Mobile Health Units (MHUs) impact positively on ease of access to healthcare services, health outcomes of population served, corresponding satisfaction and quality of life, and other socio-economic factors. Mobile health clinics are increasingly used to deliver healthcare to urban and rural populations. Mobile clinics focus on prevention and provide accessible care to high needs patients.  By providing accessible wellness services, mobile clinics have the potential to save payors money, as well as improve the health of their patients. 

Mobile clinics bring health services directly to those who need it most, improve access to health services in underserved communities across the country, serve communities that have the poorest access to health services in the U.S: rural communities as well as urban communities, save money through avoiding unnecessary and expensive emergency department visits and through delivering preventive services. , there is a high number of uninsured nonelderly people and many have unmet health needs. Many of these are in the rural and farming areas, homeless experiencing substance abuse/addiction and migrants. The uninsured rate is worse in the southern state of the United States with more than 12% of population being uninsured. The uninsured and those who cannot afford insurance due to cost have higher rates of age-adjusted mortality, disability, and chronic disease than those who are insured.  This contributes negatively to their health and socioeconomic status, creates a higher incidence of both smoking and obesity as well as lower levels of physical activity.