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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · Aug 8

Impact of rural-urban residence and deprivation on care pathways for depression disorders among adults in the UK by Inghels et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Impact of rural‐urban residence and deprivation on care pathways for depression disorders among adults in the UK

Purpose To investigate how rurality shapes individual care pathways and health outcomes for depression and to investigate the sociodemographic and economic relationships with urban-rural variations....

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · Aug 8

An assessment of area-level vulnerability and resilience indices by geography: A rural-urban comparison by Bailo et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An assessment of area‐level vulnerability and resilience indices by geography: A rural‐urban comparison

Purpose Area-level vulnerability and resilience indices combine multiple dimensions of demographic, economic, and environmental factors into a single measure of area-level risk. These indices are wi...

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · Aug 8

Health information technology in rural health care: A systematic review of its impact on critical access hospitals by Pai onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Health information technology in rural health care: A systematic review of its impact on critical access hospitals

Objective This systematic review examines the profound impact of health information technology (HIT) on critical access hospitals (CAHs), focusing on the persistent challenges hindering effective im...

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · Aug 8

Rural-urban disparities in the prevalence of chronic pain in adults: Associations with demographic and socioeconomic characteristics by Talbot et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Rural‐urban disparities in the prevalence of chronic pain in adults: Associations with demographic and socioeconomic characteristics

Purpose To explore rural-urban differences in chronic pain prevalence among adults in the United States. Methods This cross-sectional study analyzed pooled data from the 2019-2021 and 2023 Nationa...

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · Aug 8

Enduring lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: Advancing virtual care for substance use disorders in rural America by LaPorte et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Enduring lessons from the COVID‐19 pandemic: Advancing virtual care for substance use disorders in rural America

Purpose This study explores how rural substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers in New York State adapted to pandemic-era policy changes by rapidly adopting virtual care, identifying both cha...

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · Aug 8

Increasing access to orthotic and prosthetic care in rural communities: Satisfaction with the Department of Veterans Affairs Mobile Prosthetic and Orthotic Care Program by Leonard et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Increasing access to orthotic and prosthetic care in rural communities: Satisfaction with the Department of Veterans Affairs Mobile Prosthetic and Orthotic Care Program

Background In the Veteran's Health Administration (VHA), rural Veterans who need orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) care typically travel to urban VHA medical centers (VAMCs). This presents a barrier to .....

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · Aug 8

Rural and urban differences in family physician burnout before and during the COVID-19 pandemic by Woolcock et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Rural and urban differences in family physician burnout before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Purpose Understanding the different challenges rural and urban family physicians faced during the COVID-19 pandemic is essential for developing strategies to combat burnout. This study described the.....

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · Aug 8

Disparities in rural and urban outcomes in populations with human papillomavirus–associated oropharyngeal cancers by Mills et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Disparities in rural and urban outcomes in populations with human papillomavirus–associated oropharyngeal cancers

Importance There is a need to understand how the increasing rate of HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancers may affect underresourced populations. Purpose To investigate possible disparities in surviva...

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · Jul 16

Colorectal cancer survival disparities in persistent poverty areas by DelNero et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #RuralHealth

Colorectal cancer survival disparities in persistent poverty areas

Purpose We examined whether living in persistent poverty census tracts was associated with disparities in colorectal cancer (CRC) survival and whether the association varied between urban and rural ...

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · Jul 16

The provision of tele-behavioral health services by critical access hospitals and short-term acute care hospitals during the COVID-19 public health emergency by Jonk et al #RuralHealth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The provision of tele‐behavioral health services by critical access hospitals and short‐term acute care hospitals during the COVID‐19 public health emergency

Purpose This study examined how the telehealth (TH) flexibilities introduced during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) affected in-person behavioral health (BH) and tele-behavioral health (T...

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · Jul 16

Insights into suicidality in rural communities: Lessons from Rawat et al. (2025) and perspectives from Alaska and Colorado by Lockhart #RuralHealth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · Jul 16

Impact of rurality and the area deprivation index on outcomes of collaborative care for depression by Savitz et al #RuralHealt onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Impact of rurality and the area deprivation index on outcomes of collaborative care for depression

Purpose The Collaborative care model (CoCM) is the leading model for integrating behavioral health into primary care for patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). However, CoCM requires engagem...

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · Jun 17

Geographic disparities in unpaid caregiving by Boswell et al. #RuralHealth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Geographic disparities in unpaid caregiving

Purpose An updated, nationally representative examination of rural–urban differences in the experiences, health, and well-being of caregivers is needed; previous research on this topic uses older da...

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · Jun 17

The impact of California Proposition 56 on smoking behaviors across geographic residence by Keeler et al. #RuralHealth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The impact of California Proposition 56 on smoking behaviors across geographic residence

Purpose To explore the geographic impact of California's Proposition 56 (Prop 56) on smoking behaviors. Methods We identified 61,193 respondents aged 21+ from the 2012–2018 California Behavioral R...

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · Jun 17

An exploratory study to understand how rurality status and demographic characteristics are associated with enrollment, engagement, and retention in a digital health intervention targeting the Appalachian region by Brock et al. #RuralHealth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

An exploratory study to understand how rurality status and demographic characteristics are associated with enrollment, engagement, and retention in a digital health intervention targeting the Appalachian region

Purpose Digital health studies exploring group disparities across research phases are limited. As a secondary aim of a larger digital health trial, this study explored how rurality and other sociode...

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · Jun 17

Phone-only mental health care within the Department of Veterans Affairs: Associations with rurality, age, sex, and clinical severity by Connolly et al. #RuralHealth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · Jun 17

Evolution of the US nonmetropolitan mortality disadvantage by sex, state, and year, 1999-2019 from @eugeniopaglino.bsky.social et al. #RuralHealth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Evolution of the US nonmetropolitan mortality disadvantage by sex, state, and year, 1999‐2019

Purpose To examine disparities in nonmetropolitan and metropolitan mortality by state and sex from 1999 to 2019. Methods We calculate age-standardized mortality rates for nonmetropolitan and metro...

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · May 27

Obstetric care in rural critical access hospitals: A domestic application of the World Health Organization Emergency Obstetric Care framework in rural communities via Glover et al. #RuralHealth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Obstetric care in rural critical access hospitals: A domestic application of the World Health Organization Emergency Obstetric Care framework in rural communities

Purpose Pregnancy-related mortality has increased steadily over the last 30 years in the United States; during the same period, rural communities have lost access to care as rural hospitals and obst...

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · May 27

Development of chronic pain and high-impact chronic pain across the US rural–urban continuum, 2019–2020 via Sun et al. #RuralHealth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Development of chronic pain and high‐impact chronic pain across the US rural–urban continuum, 2019–2020

Purpose Rural health disadvantages are well documented in previous literature; however, research on rural–urban disparities in chronic pain outcomes is scarce. This paper fills this gap by examining...

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Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · May 27

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