When Janice Probst read a report released in March by the federal Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service confirming that the health disparities gap between rural and urban Americans is widening, substantially, she was dismayed but not surprised.
According to the report, between 1999 and 2019 the gap in rural/urban natural-cause deaths for those aged 25–54 surged from 6% to 43%. Researchers also found that the more rural the region, the greater the increase.
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