Achieving Rural Health Equity and Well-Being: Proceedings of a Workshop

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Proceedings of a workshop designed to explore impacts of economic issues, immigration, and racial inequities in healthcare in rural communities and to learn about asset-based approaches to addressing these challenges. Features statistics including average life expectancy at birth from 1969-2009 with breakdowns by metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas, U.S. maps showing levels of poverty and employment, and a chart showing numbers of rural hospital closures from 2005-2017.

03/2018

Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Access · Community engagement and volunteerism · Health disparities · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health · Statistics and data