Health Disparities in Rural America: Current Challenges and Future Solutions

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Describes health risks experienced by rural people and the problems they face in accessing healthcare in shortage areas, and offers possible solutions. Includes a map showing Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas by county, and a list of states allowing full practice authority for nurse practitioners as of 2019.

Theresa Capriotti, Tiffany Pearson, Lillian Dufour

02/2020

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Access · Cancer · Cardiovascular disease · Diabetes · Health disparities · Health information technology · Health workforce supply and demand · Maternal health and prenatal care · Mental health · Nurse practitioners and other advanced practice registered nurses · Policy · Rural-urban differences · Scope of practice · Sexual and reproductive health · Substance use and misuse · Telehealth