CHQPR November 17, 2024
Thursday, November 21 is National Rural Health Day, and the news about rural health isn’t good. Working-age people living in rural areas are 43% more likely to die from natural causes than in urban areas. Over the past 20 years, the death rate for working-age adults living in rural areas increased, while mortality decreased for those in urban areas.
Many of these deaths occur for preventable reasons. For example:
- Pregnancy-related deaths are 60% higher in rural areas than in urban areas.
- Deaths from heart disease are 45% higher in rural areas than urban areas for working-age men and 69% higher for working-age women. While deaths from heart disease decreased in urban areas over the last two decades thanks to...
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