Reimagining Rural Health Equity: Understanding Disparities And Orienting Policy, Practice, And Research In Rural America
AbstractA narrative has taken hold that public health has failed the US. We argue instead that the US has chronically failed public health, and nowhere have these failures been more apparent than in rural regions. Decades of underinvestment in rural communities, health care, and public health institutions left rural America uniquely vulnerable to the COVID-19 [...]