Effective communication tools for clinicians to engage in GOC discussions for persons with
chronic respiratory diseases are grounded in a patient-centered framework. A trained …

Rural health disparities are well documented and continue to jeopardize the long-term
health and wellness for the millions of individuals who live in rural America. The disparities …

Importance Rural adolescents are at high risk for firearm-related injury, yet most existing
prevention efforts are informed by research conducted in urban areas. Despite the need to …

Methods We used baseline data from a mailed survey (N= 728) conducted in 2019 as part of
an evaluation of The Two Georgias Initiative to examine the relationships among LTPA …

The opioid epidemic in the United States continues to disproportionately affect those in rural,
compared to urban, areas due to a variety of treatment and recovery barriers. One …

Background West Virginia (WV) has the highest rates of obesity and cardiopulmonary
disease in the United States (US). Recent work has identified a significant care gap in WV …

Rural areas face well known and distinctive health care challenges that can limit their
resilience in the face of health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic. These include …

Objective: Most work on place-based (eg, rural–urban) health disparities has been
conducted with population-level data, which is limited in its capacity for causal inferences …

Background/Objectives: Rural communities face a disproportionate burden in terms of diet-
related health challenges and have been identified as a target for the US Department of …

Background The association between surgical volume and patient outcome is well
established, with higher case volume associated with a lower risk of complications. We …