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Date: Mar 2025
Provides information on utilization of women's healthcare services with 2024 KFF survey data. Focuses on healthcare status, healthcare access, preventative health services, and more, with breakdowns by demographic variables, including urbanicity for select findings.
...Frederiksen, Alina Salganicoff 03/2025 KFF Cancer · Health screening · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Women...
Date: Jul 2017
Offers detailed statistics on health conditions and behaviors for the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) population and for multiple and single-race NHPI populations, with comparisons to other racial groups and to the U.S. population as a whole. Topics covered include general health status, specific health conditions, disabilities, body mass index, physical activity, and substance use.
...Cancer · Cardiovascular disease · Chronic respiratory conditions · Diabetes · Health conditions · Health disparities · Obesity and weight control...
Date: Mar 2024
Compares overall survival of 1176 rural and urban patients who underwent pancreatic neoendocrine tumor (PNET) resection between 2000 and 2016, utilizing US Neuroendocrine Tumor Study Group data. Includes data on tumor pathology and patient management factors. Discusses barriers to care after PNET diagnosis for rural populations.
...Surgery, 233, 125-131 03/2024 Access · Cancer · Health disparities · Mortality · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Surgery...
Date: 2025
Examines factors and trends related to family physician (FP)-performed colonoscopy screenings. Analyzes 2016-2021 insurance claims data from 2,943,900 qualified colonoscopies, with data breakdowns according to patient demographics, accrued charges, region, and urban-rural classification, including large central metro, large fringe metro, medium metro, small metro, micropolitan, and noncore. Discusses the impact of FP-performed colonoscopy screenings for certain populations, including rural.
...Rural Health, 41(1) 2025 Cancer · Health screening · Physicians · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Date: Feb 2020
Highlights a study on the effect of travel distance on hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance for veterans with cirrhosis who are being treated by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Merges VHA and CMS data and breaks it down by demographics and travel distance to both VA and non-VA medical centers and the patients' primary care providers, among other measures.
...Research, 55(1), 103-112 02/2020 Cancer · Health disparities · Specialty care · Statistics and data · Veterans...
Date: Nov 16, 2022
Palliative care, designed to treat the symptoms of a serious illness at any stage of diagnosis, is associated with better outcomes like higher patient satisfaction. Despite these benefits, many people in rural communities cannot access these services or don't know what palliative care is. The South Dakota Palliative Care Network is working to increase knowledge of palliative care among rural healthcare professionals, nursing students, and community members. - The Rural Monitor
...Cancer Society. Avera Sacred Heart Hospital, in rural Yankton, was developing its own specialty palliative...
Date: Jan 2021
Infographic providing statistics and data on oncology workforce characteristics and geography in 2020. Highlights rural-urban differences in oncology access, and includes a color-coded map showing oncologist distribution on the county level.
...Cancer · Health workforce supply and demand · Physicians · Rural-urban differences · Specialty care · Statistics and data...
Date: May 2024
Analyzes National Vital Statistics System mortality data between 2010 and 2022 to find the 5 leading causes of preventable deaths for people less than 80 years old. Discusses trends across time in metropolitan, micropolitan, and noncore regions and the impact of COVID-19 on the findings. Offers recommendations for future data analysis.
...Cancer · Cardiovascular disease · Chronic respiratory conditions · Health disparities · Injuries · Mortality · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Date: Sep 2019
Presents several alternative or additional career paths for radiation oncologists. Details global health, radiation epidemiology, and frontier medicine among other paths.
...Physics, 105(1), 52-63 09/2019 Cancer · Frontier and remote areas · Scope of practice · Specialty care...
Date: Mar 2022
Reports on the health of Alabama residents, providing demographic data and comparing rural and urban areas throughout. Presents county-level data and discussion of 14 selected health indicators, including mental health and substance abuse, access to care, pregnancy outcomes, social determinants of health, and environmental health, among others.
...Cancer · Cardiovascular disease · Child welfare · County-by-county data · Diabetes · Environmental health · Food security and nutrition...