It’s an enduring fact: You’re more likely to die from cancer if you live in rural Appalachia than if you live anywhere else in this country. According to a 2016 University of Virginia study, between 1969 and 2011, the incidence of cancer declined in all regions of the U.S except […]
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A dozen people are scurrying around a church basement in Youngstown, Ohio. They’re arranging tables and chairs, setting up paperwork and hanging up signs that read, “Ohio Health Registry.” “The Ohio Health Registry is really an attempt to collect the contacts of people who live close enough to any aspect […]
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Joel Segel, Pennsylvania State University; Douglas L. Leslie, Pennsylvania State University; Gary Zajac, Pennsylvania State University; Max Crowley, Pennsylvania State University, and Paul L. Morgan, Pennsylvania State University The devastating health effects of the opioid epidemic have been well documented, with over 700,000 overdose deaths and millions more affected. And […]
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About 40 percent of veterans who receive medical care through the Veterans Health Administration are now covered at urgent care clinics. This expansion of benefits for veterans is part of the Mission Act, which went into effect last month. Veterans with a service-connected disability used to have to pay out of pocket if […]
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If policymakers use market-based approaches to solve healthcare access problems, they need a better understanding of how rural markets work, says one researcher. A lack of competition among health insurers in rural areas has reduced the ability of market-based approaches to increase insurance enrollment, a new study says. The Affordable […]
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The effects of industry can be seen on the surface of many Appalachia communities, from strip mining in the central coalfields to the new construction of natural gas pipelines, but for decades, people living there have pointed to these and other industries as causing something much deeper, more internal– disease. […]
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