Rural Health
News by Topic: Mortality
Oct 22, 2025 - Highlights the rural focus of the new Association of American Cancer Institutes president. Goals include developing a rural focused oversight committee, understanding the connection between ruralness and other social determinants of health, identifying best practices related to decreasing rural morbidity and mortality in cancer, and more.
Source: University of Nebraska Medical Center Newsroom
Sep 24, 2025 - Analyzes birth and death data in Georgia to highlight population distributions trends between 1994 and 2024 with comparisons between rural and urban areas. Discusses the impact of COVID on the data.
Source: The Daily Yonder
Sep 18, 2025 - Describes emergency maternity training for staff in a rural Arizona hospital without a labor unit. Highlights increasing maternal mortality rates in the state.
Source: KOLD