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Date: Dec 2025
Literature review examining the extent to which studies on mortality related to heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, chronic lower respiratory disease, and stroke included individual measures of rurality, race, and ethnicity, and analyzes the findings of these studies. Discusses differences in research on a condition-by-condition basis and suggests directions for future health disparities research.
...cancer, unintentional injuries, chronic lower respiratory disease, and stroke included individual measures of rurality, race...
Date: 2024
Examines how mammogram facility resources, policies, and practices in metro versus nonmetro Appalachia are related to breast cancer burden and outcomes. Analyzes survey data from 192 sites to observe catchment area mammography services such as levels of staffing and available technology, practices and policies that promote screening, and quality review processes.
...cancer burden and outcomes. Analyzes survey data from 192 sites to observe catchment area mammography...
Date: Mar 2022
Provides contact information and brief overviews of 61 initiatives funded under the Rural Health Care Outreach Services grant program in the 2021-2025 funding cycle. Includes projects in the Healthy Rural Hometown Initiative (HRHI) track, which focus on rural health disparities related to the five leading causes of avoidable death: heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease, and stroke. Also includes projects in the Outreach track that address a wide variety of rural healthcare needs.
...cancer, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease, and stroke. Also includes projects in the Outreach...
Date: Jan 2017
Reports on rural-urban disparities regarding potentially preventable deaths caused by heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease (CLRD), and stroke for populations less than 80 years of age. Discusses factors impacting the rural-urban gap, and offers suggestions for reducing these disparities and improving health. Updated in a November 2019 report.
...cancer, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease (CLRD), and stroke for populations less than 80 years...
Date: 2022
Report presents an update from the Agricultural Health Study, a long-term study from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Discusses the health risk from pesticide exposure, including cancer and immune function.
...cancer and immune function. 2022 National Institutes of Health Agricultural health and safety · Cancer · Environmental...
Date: Jan 2024
Highlights a study exploring the rates of mortality and morbidity from noncommunicable diseases in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago. Explores the prevalence of risk factors for heart disease, diabetes, and cancer via blood samples collected from participants. Details participant characteristics, such as age, general health, and comorbidities, among other measures.
...cancer via blood samples collected from participants. Details participant characteristics, such as age, general health...
Date: 2022
Report examining the effects of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which are common in well water in rural areas and have been linked to adverse health effects including cancer, thyroid dysfunction, changes in cholesterol, and reductions in birthweight. Recommends that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and public health departments support clinicians in communities where PFAS contamination has been identified by creating educational materials on PFAS exposure, potential health effects, the limitations of testing, and the benefits and harms of testing.
...cancer, thyroid dysfunction, changes in cholesterol, and reductions in birthweight. Recommends that the Centers for Disease...
Date: Aug 2026
Protocol to examine the effectiveness of a sun protection intervention focused on improving cancer prevention among children ages 3-6 via baseball and softball programs in rural Utah and West Virginia.
...cancer prevention among children ages 3-6 via baseball and softball programs in rural Utah...
Reviewed: Apr 28, 2026
A collection of major national rural-relevant statistical sources. Includes data sources focused on healthcare services, health status, demographics, and social determinants of health. For each source, identifies the topics covered, ease of use, geographic level of data, and update frequency.
...Cancer Profiles National Cancer Institute Topics: Cancer burden Screening and risk factors Demographic data Ease...
Date: Feb 2023
Reports on implementation and results of a mobile vaccination program focused on human papillomavirus (HPV) and other childhood immunizations for rural and medically underserved communities in rural South Carolina. Discusses the significance of HPV vaccination for cancer prevention.
...cancer prevention. --- Evaluation of the First-Year Data from an HPV Vaccination Van Program in South...