The United States has long made substantial investments in clinical research with the goal
of improving the health and well-being of our nation. There is no doubt that these …

We reviewed evidence of any apparently significant 'rural‐urban'health status differentials in
developed countries, to determine whether such differentials are generic or nation‐specific …

Abstract Problem/Condition: Higher rates of death in nonmetropolitan areas (often referred
to as rural areas) compared with metropolitan areas have been described but not …

Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures, ranging from
miners who have been laid off in West Virginia, to Laotian immigrants relocating in Kansas …

Public health in the rural United States is a complex and underfunded enterprise. While
urban–rural disparities have been a focus for researchers and policymakers alike for …

Abstract “Neighborhoods and health” research has shown that area social factors are
associated with the health outcomes that patients with cancer experience across the cancer …

Rural children and adults are more likely to have obesity than their urban counterparts even
after adjustment for individual-level behaviors, suggesting that rural environments may …

A critical aspect of rural research is carefully defining and describing the rural context. This is
particularly important in rural special education research because different definitions of …

Purpose Prior cancer research is limited by inconsistencies in defining rurality. The purpose
of this study was to describe the prevalence of cancer risk factors and cancer screening …

Purpose: To examine rural‐urban differences in the use of mental health services (mental
health and substance abuse office visits, and mental health prescriptions) and in the out‐of …