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

In this Perspective, we contend bold action is needed to improve transitions from hospitals to
home for aging patients and their family caregivers living in rural and underserved areas …

Looming climate change health impacts among rural communities will require a robust
health system response. To reduce health inequities and promote climate justice, rural local …

Federal policies and programs are typically written with placeneutral intent or without
considering how they might affect places differently depending on population compositions …

Non-optimal ambient temperatures are risk factors for myocardial infarction (MI) and urban-
rural temperature differences in the context of climate change may have caused and will …

Objective Rural location of a patient's primary residence has been associated with worse
clinical and surgical outcomes due to limited resource availability in these parts of the US …

Context Foundational Capabilities (FC) are the public health (PH) infrastructure areas that
are essential for local health departments (LHDs) to support a “minimum package” of …

Objective: This work examines variation in LHD accreditation scores relative to their
organizational and jurisdiction characteristics. Design: Cross-sectional data were obtained …

Background: The rural-urban disparities in postoperative complications and costs among
patients undergoing knee arthroplasty (KA) have not been thoroughly explored. This study …

The urban-rural divide in chronic disease contributes to persistent geographic disparities in
life expectancy in North Carolina. Policies and programs in resource-constrained rural areas …