Empowering patients to be effective advocates for their health requires that they have
adequate information and understanding about their health conditions. Many patients have …

Policy Points Policymakers should invest in programs to support rural health systems, with a
more targeted focus on spatial accessibility and racial and ethnic equity, not only total supply …

A key issue facing the United States is how to structure rural health care delivery. In research
and policy discussions of this challenge, a core focus has been the appropriate role for rural …

For patients with heart failure, self-care is crucial, but recommendations for self-care are
often not adhered to. Digital health interventions have the potential to help patients improve …

Purpose To examine whether hospital closure is associated with high levels of area
socioeconomic disadvantage and racial/ethnic minority composition. Methods Pooled cross …

Policy Points Current pay‐for‐performance and other payment policies ignore hospital
transfers for emergency conditions, which may exacerbate disparities. No conceptual …

Between 1990 and 2020, 334 rural hospitals closed in the United States, and since 2011
hospital closures have outnumbered new hospital openings. This scoping review evaluates …

In this provocation, we discuss the potential for health/medical geography to contribute to a
policy-relevant geographical research agenda that remains attentive to social theory …

Purpose Given rural hospitals' role in providing outpatient services, we examined the
association between travel burdens and receipt of cancer screening among rural-dwelling …

Significant deficits in the national perinatal workforce are expected over the next three
decades, and North Carolina is no exception. Rural communities are especially at risk of not …