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The Shortage of Healthcare Workers in the U.S. - Nursing

Unfortunately, many working physicians will also be reaching retirement age along with the rest of the Baby Boomers. Rural areas could experience more problems ...

Healthcare in the United States - Wikipedia

Legislation such as the Affordable Care Act of 2010 has sought to address some of these issues, though challenges remain. Uninsured rates have fluctuated over ...

Responding to rural health disparities in the United States

The uneven distribution of healthcare resources ranges from fewer and farther service locations, reduced funding, discontinuous education, and inadequate ...

Geographic variations in driving time to US mental health care ...

Our study documented longer travel time to mental health facilities in rural areas and greater barriers to digital devices for telemedicine access in those ...

Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Hospitals | AHA

Key Findings · Approximately half (48%) of rural hospitals consistently experienced negative operating margins from patient services prior to and ...

Meanings and Misunderstandings: A Social Determinants of Health ...

Health care systems and policymakers in the United States increasingly use language related to social determinants of health in their strategies to improve ...

Racism, Inequality, and Health Care for African Americans

The American health care system is beset with inequalities that have a disproportionate impact on people of color and other marginalized ...

Mapping Healthcare Deserts

As with healthcare provider deserts, many hospital deserts are located in rural areas. Vermont, Alaska, Arkansas, Alabama, and Maine have the largest share of.

2. The Causes of Rural Hospital Problems

At the majority of small rural hospitals, losses on patients with private health insurance plans and self-pay patients were greater than losses on Medicare, ...

Mapping Health Disparities in 11 High-Income Nations

Geographic health disparities are well recognized in public health and health care delivery. The health of people in rural areas in particular ...

Social Determinants of Health - Healthy People 2030

SDOH also contribute to wide health disparities and inequities. For example, people who don't have access to grocery stores with healthy foods are less likely ...

Achieving Health Equity - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

As health disparities in the U.S. continue to grow, RWJF's health equity toolkit provides resources, data, and examples of communities working to achieve ...

Closing Medicaid Coverage Gap Would Help Diverse Groups and ...

But the coverage gap has contributed to persistent inequities in health coverage. People of color make up 65 percent of people in the coverage ...

Twenty-First Century Health Care Challenges in the United States

Building new health care centers in underserved areas will not entirely solve this problem. Many facets of the environment need fixing in these ...

Access to specialty healthcare in urban versus rural US populations

Urban areas have the highest reported infant mortality rates, homicides, adult major depressive episodes, and mortality from unintended injuries ...

County Health Rankings & Roadmaps

The County Health Rankings model shows us how these factors work together and illustrates where we can take action to improve health and eliminate unjust ...

How far Americans live from the closest hospital differs by ...

Rural Americans are more likely than people in urban and suburban areas to say access to good doctors and hospitals is a major problem in ...

Poverty and Health - The Family Medicine Perspective (Position ...

For top-performing states, many health care measures of populations with low income were better than average and better than those for individuals with higher ...

Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity

Health inequities are in large part a result of historic and ongoing poverty, structural racism, and discrimination.

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural America | PNAS

Yet rural communities—which make up tens of millions of people from diverse backgrounds in the United States—are among the nation's most vulnerable populations ...