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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Rural health disparities"”.
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Improving Rural Health Disparities: Understanding and Addressing Intake of Added Sugars and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages among Adults and Adolescents
Around 46.2 million Americans living in rural areas are disproportionately burdened by health disparities. Likewise, obesity and obesity-associated diseases (e.g., diabetes, cardiovascular disease) are much higher for rural residents when compared to their urban counterparts. There is a high need …
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Ethical imperative to health and epistemological distance : rural patients and advanced practice registered nurses
Rural populations have increased mortality, lower life expectancy, and less access to specialty care. Rural health disparities result from geographic, social, and epistemological barriers. In the wake of rural hospital closures, rural patients necessarily seek care from non-rural hospitals. These …
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Exploring health disparities in rural regions of Virginia: The impact of health literacy and social capital
… States, low-income, ethnic/racial minorities and rural populations are at increased risk for poorer health outcomes compared to higher income, non-minorities, and urban populations. Two key determinants that influence rural health disparities are health literacy and social capital. Health literacy …
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Advancing Rural Public Health: From Drinking Water Quality and Health Outcome Meta-analyses to Wastewater-based Pathogen Monitoring
A rural-urban divide in health status and healthcare infrastructure has been well-documented in the U.S., where populations residing in census regions classified as rural often exhibit more negative health outcomes, adverse health behaviors, and have reduced access to affordable and proximal health …
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Health and social disparities influence opioid misuse among adult females living in rural areas
… quickly grew to what modern scientists and healthcare professionals know now as the "Opioid Epidemic." The opioid epidemic began around the early 1900s when doctors power to prescribe painkillers became more frequent and in larger quantities, to patients who suffered from more moderate pain …