Background Nearly two decades ago, the Eight Americas study offered a novel lens for
examining health inequities in the USA by partitioning the US population into eight groups …

Methods Data came from the American Community Survey, the American Hospital
Association Survey, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's PLACES. We …

While much of the transgender health literature has focused on poor health outcomes, less
research has examined how trans people find reliable information on, and actually go about …

Between 1990 and 2020, 334 rural hospitals closed in the United States, and since 2011
hospital closures have outnumbered new hospital openings. This scoping review evaluates …

Background Research regarding the rural nursing workforce in the United States prior to the
COVID-19 pandemic suggested steady growth but lagging diversity and educational …

Purpose As US hospital markets become increasingly consolidated, empirical evidence is
needed on the clinical and financial impacts of mergers on care provided by rural hospitals …

Purpose Given rural hospitals' role in providing outpatient services, we examined the
association between travel burdens and receipt of cancer screening among rural-dwelling …

This study examines the administrative burden imposed by two federal disability assistance
programs, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance …

Purpose Delays in receiving medical care are an urgent problem. This study aims to
determine whether the odds of, and reasons for, experiencing care delays differ by gender …

Executive Summary Background In 2003, the Institute of Medicine issued the report Unequal
Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care that documented …