Cancer deaths in the US have dropped steeply since 1991. But the medical and public health advances leading to these declines have been concentrated among high-income areas.
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Policy and legal efforts aim to stop these malicious security breaches, but they are growing more common as hospitals adopt remote health care delivery and hackers adopt artificial intelligence.
People in rural areas often have to travel long distances for treatment and spend weeks or months away from home, family and work.
A modest increase in health funding is all that’s needed to save lives. That’s a big impact for the price of a fancy coffee.
Research shows that decades of policy choices shaped today’s fragmented health care system – which is precisely why reform is so difficult.
Doctor shortages affect rural communities the most, leading to a rise in chronic health conditions.
Here’s what the evidence says, and how they work overseas.
Some communities have too few GPs to ensure everyone can get the care they need, when they need it. Whoever wins the federal election should commit to fixing this.
Half of all GP practices in New Zealand have closed their books to new patients. This means people are going on emergency departments for care – with deadly outcomes when it comes to lung cancer.
Rural emergency departments can be busier than normal during school holidays. Plus they can be short-staffed. So please, save the ED for true emergencies.
Small communities struggle to retain needed internationally educated health-care professionals. Challenges will persist until the compounding effects of social and professional isolation are addressed.
For rural people, these stresses are cumulative and contribute to higher levels of trauma, mental ill-health and in some cases, suicidal behaviour.
Despite chronic housing need and persistent health and infrastructural inequities, northern communities are turning to the land and each other to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Rural America has special problems as it copes with the COVID-19 pandemic.
A drug called palivizumab can keep babies infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) out of the hospital, but many Inuit babies, who have a higher risk of infection, are not getting it.
Americans who live in rural parts of the country have fewer doctors, specialists and hospitals than those who live in cities. It also appears that insurers are working against them.
Rural hospital closings have accelerated in recent years, leaving not only sick people but ghost towns in their wake. Does the failure to fix it speak to the ills of the larger health care system?
Baringo county and other areas on the western side of Kenya are struggling to reduce their seasonal malaria caseloads.
Health outcomes for rural Americans have steadily deteriorated in recent decades even as they’ve improved elsewhere. The GOP plan to replace the Affordable Care Act will worsen the problem.
Providing health care to the bush not only benefits people’s health but the local economy.
Top contributors
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Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Director of the Acute Care Research Unit, Affiliated Adjunct and Natural Scientist, RAND Corporation, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Rural Health Research, Deakin University
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PhD Psychology Department, Stellenbosch University
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National Clinician Scholar, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, University of Michigan
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Professor of Health Economics and Policy and Pharmaco-economics/pharmaco-epidemiology in the Departments of Health Administration & Management and Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria
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Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
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Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University
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Lecturer in the Department of Community Medicine, University of Nigeria
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor, Deakin University
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
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Professor, Executive Director, Texas A&M Rural and Community Health Initiative, Texas A&M University
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Associate Professor Pediatrics and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Chair Indigenous Health Conference, North American Refugee Health Conference, University of Toronto
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Research Fellow, Equitable Cancer Outcomes across Rural and Remote Australia (ECORRA), Deakin University