The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently released The Nature of the Rural-Urban Mortality Gap report, which showed rural adults are dying of natural causes at a faster rate than urban adults. A ...

In Matthew Roach's two years as vital statistics manager for the Arizona Department of Health Services, and 10 years previously in its epidemiology program, he has witnessed a trend in mortality rates ...

Rural areas have lower colorectal cancer screening rates than urban areas, with over 70% of the disparity unexplained by measurable factors. Education and income are significant contributors to the ...

Cervical cancer incidence is rising, with rural and minoritized populations experiencing worse outcomes due to suboptimal care and screening disparities. Data from 2001-2019 reveal a widening gap in ...

Part of the problem is that people living in rural areas don't always have easy access to health care. cstar55/iStock via Getty Images Rural Americans – particularly men – are expected to live ...

The gap between preventable deaths rates in rural and urban areas widened for many health conditions between 2010 and 2017, according to the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report published Nov.

The new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture finds rural working age adults are dying of natural causes at a faster rate than their urban counterparts — and that gap has widened dramatically ...