Healio

Rural women with COPD face greater social, health vulnerabilities

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mortality rates have been increasing for rural women with COPD. Rural women with COPD have more asthma, ...
The Conversation

Rural women are at a higher risk of violence − and less likely to get help

Walter S. DeKeseredy receives funding from West Virginia University.. I have been teaching a course on rural criminology since 2014, and most of my students are surprised by the information on ...
Purdue University

Rural Health

Problem: About 20% (~60 million) of Americans live in rural areas. Due to the complex social, economic, and environmental issues, people living in rural areas are more likely to die prematurely from ...
dailyyonder.com

Report: Rural Women See Drops in Health and Reproductive Care

The vacant Martin County General Hospital sits abandoned behind a chain since being closed since being closed in August of 2023. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker) New research has found that rural women are ...
Iowa Public Radio

Natural-cause deaths have increased more in rural areas, especially among women

The natural-cause death rate for those 25-54 years old is 43 percent higher in rural than urban areas, according to a report released from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This is a shift from 25 ...
ABC News

For Many Rural Women, Finding Maternity Care Eclipses Concerns About Abortion Access

In what has become a routine event in rural America, a hospital maternity ward closed in 2023 in this small Oregon town about an hour from the Idaho border. For Shyanne McCoy, 23, that meant the ...
MadameNoire

Black Women Deserve Better Healthcare During Pregnancy

Women of color in America, particularly those in rural and underserved areas, face systemic barriers that drastically affect their health, especially during pregnancy. The National Rural Health ...
Healio

Rural family physician workforce is shrinking

The number of practicing rural family physicians has declined in the United States in recent years, especially in certain ...
Kaleido Scope

Global and Rural Women’s Health Fellowship

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology is proud to announce that we are accepting applications for our global and rural women’s health research fellowship ...
WFAE

Deserts for women’s health care services expand in rural NC counties

Rural hospitals could be putting pregnant women and babies at risk by slashing labor and delivery services across North Carolina. Natasha Fuller delivered her two children at Charles A. Cannon ...

Rural women better employed than urban: Study

BENGALURU: Karnataka’s rural women are better employed in comparison to those in urban areas and men in both areas proportionately, said a report from the Reserve Bank of India. The report, Handbook ...