Public policy and health in the Trump era

S Woolhandler, DU Himmelstein, S Ahmed, Z Bailey… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Executive summary This report by the Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health in the
Trump Era assesses the repercussions of President Donald Trump's health-related policies …

Impact of COVID-19 on cervical cancer screening: Challenges and opportunities to improving resilience and reduce disparities

N Wentzensen, MA Clarke, RB Perkins - Preventive medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has a major impact on a wide range of health outcomes.
Disruptions of elective health services related to cervical screening, management of …

Call to action: rural health: a presidential advisory from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association

RA Harrington, RM Califf, A Balamurugan, N Brown… - Circulation, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Understanding and addressing the unique health needs of people residing in rural America
is critical to the American Heart Association's pursuit of a world with longer, healthier lives …

What is rural? Challenges and implications of definitions that inadequately encompass rural people and places

KJ Bennett, TF Borders, GM Holmes… - Health …, 2019 - healthaffairs.org
Monitoring and improving rural health is challenging because of varied and conflicting
concepts of just what rural means. Federal, state, and local agencies and data resources …

Association between loss of hospital-based obstetric services and birth outcomes in rural counties in the United States

KB Kozhimannil, P Hung, C Henning-Smith, MM Casey… - Jama, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Hospital-based obstetric services have decreased in rural US counties, but
whether this has been associated with changes in birth location and outcomes is unknown …

Rural-urban differences in severe maternal morbidity and mortality in the US, 2007–15

KB Kozhimannil, JD Interrante, C Henning-Smith… - Health …, 2019 - healthaffairs.org
In the United States, severe maternal morbidity and mortality is climbing—a reality that is
especially challenging for rural communities, which face declining access to obstetric …

The Problem Of The Color Line: Spatial Access To Hospital Services For Minoritized Racial And Ethnic Groups: Study examines spatial access to hospital services for …

JM Eberth, P Hung, GA Benavidez, JC Probst… - Health …, 2022 - healthaffairs.org
Examining how spatial access to health care varies across geography is key to documenting
structural inequalities in the United States. In this article and the accompanying StoryMap …

Trends in the incidence of new‐onset hypertensive disorders of pregnancy among rural and urban areas in the United States, 2007 to 2019

NA Cameron, I Everitt, LE Seegmiller… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are growing public health problems that
contribute to maternal morbidity, mortality, and future risk of cardiovascular disease. Given …

Structural urbanism contributes to poorer health outcomes for rural America

J Probst, JM Eberth, E Crouch - Health Affairs, 2019 - healthaffairs.org
Rural populations disproportionately suffer from adverse health outcomes, including poorer
health and higher age-adjusted mortality. We argue that these disparities are due in part to …

Differences in social isolation and its relationship to health by rurality

C Henning‐Smith, I Moscovice… - The Journal of Rural …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Social isolation is an urgent threat to public health. Meanwhile, health outcomes
across multiple measures are worse in rural areas, where distance to neighbors is often …