Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mortality rates have been increasing for rural women with COPD. Rural women with COPD have more asthma, ...

The vacant Martin County General Hospital sits abandoned behind a chain since being closed since being closed in August of 2023. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker) New research has found that rural women are ...

The number of practicing rural family physicians has declined in the United States in recent years, especially in certain regions of the country, according to a study published in Annals of Family ...

Problem: About 20% (~60 million) of Americans live in rural areas. Due to the complex social, economic, and environmental issues, people living in rural areas are more likely to die prematurely from ...

In what has become a routine event in rural America, a hospital maternity ward closed in 2023 in this small Oregon town about an hour from the Idaho border. For Shyanne McCoy, 23, that meant the ...

Walter S. DeKeseredy receives funding from West Virginia University.. I have been teaching a course on rural criminology since 2014, and most of my students are surprised by the information on ...

BENGALURU: Karnataka’s rural women are better employed in comparison to those in urban areas and men in both areas ...

Rural hospitals could be putting pregnant women and babies at risk by slashing labor and delivery services across North Carolina. Natasha Fuller delivered her two children at Charles A. Cannon ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. – Teresa Kittridge is so invested in encouraging rural women to run for office that she doesn’t care what party they come from. “We are all about better supporting each other as ...

On November 20, 2019, I wrote for The Indian Express on “A Greater Ease of Living.” I had argued that discussions of rural ...

Guest Contributors Tahina Montoya is a defense and policy researcher at RAND, and Kelly Atkinson is a political scientist at RAND.