Rural Americans face significant barriers to accessing adequate primary care; tailored federal and state programs can help ...

Twenty-seven of Idaho’s community hospitals serve rural areas but all fifty-one of them treat rural patients. Half of the ...

Rural Americans – particularly men – are expected to live significantly shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts, according to our research, recently published in the Journal of Rural ...

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers a road map for increasing access to science, technology, engineering, and math education opportunities and ...

Rural primary care is strained by clinician shortages, limited access, and financial instability, impacting health outcomes and increasing emergency department reliance. National initiatives like the ...

Elizabeth Currid-Halkett was the Kluge Chair in Modern Culture at the Library of Congress while conducting some of this research. Currid-Halkett is on the Scholars' Council for the nonprofit Braver ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Operating rural hospitals is challenging, primarily because 46% operate with negative margins, and 432 are at risk of closure. A ...

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Data from 57 studies including 10,907 patients across 36 towns/cities were included in our analysis. Proximity to rural areas was associated with a higher frequency of HBV-associated HCC in assessment ...