Rural Medical Shortage

In rural areas with health care shortages, these doctors …

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A shortage of health care professionals is more common also when more than half of the community is made up of a racial minority. Around 85 percent of Hotz’s patients make less than $25,500 a...

Health Disparities Affect Millions in Rural U.S. Communities

https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/health-disparities-affect-millions-rural-us-communities

Shortage Areas - Health Resources and Services …

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Shortage Areas by Address; Health Workforce Tools. National Practitioner Data Bank; Health Workforce Footprint Map; Health Workforce Projections; Health …

Health in Rural America | NIH News in Health

https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2022/03/health-rural-america

Studies have found that rural Americans are more likely to die prematurely from the leading causes of death in the U.S. These include heart disease, cancer, lung disease, and …

Texas Town Tries a New Model for Saving Rural Health …

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2023/02/17/texas-town-tries-a-new-model-for-saving-rural-health-care

Health experts have long described the continuing closures of rural hospitals as a crisis brought on by a host of factors, including declining rural economies, shrinking …

Rural Disparities in Access to Care - Health …

https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/hrsa/advisory-committees/graduate-medical-edu/publications/cogme-rural-health-policy-brief.pdf

Administration, in March 2020 almost 70% of areas designated as primary medical health professional shortage areas were rural or partially rural areas.15 Rural …

How to Improve Health Care in Rural Areas

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A report published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2022 claims 14.4 percent of rural residents under 65, and over five percent of children …

Attracting the next generation of physicians …

https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/attracting-next-generation-physicians-rural-medicine

Across the country, physician shortages have left a growing number of communities like Wheeler County desperate for care. Of the more than 7,200 federally …

Rural health care: Big challenges require big solutions

https://www.aha.org/news/insights-and-analysis/2020-01-28-rural-health-care-big-challenges-require-big-solutions

Given the troubling trend of rural hospital closures and concerns about access to health care services, most of the activity around rural health care is focused …

Doctor shortages are here—and they’ll get …

https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/sustainability/doctor-shortages-are-here-and-they-ll-get-worse-if-we-don-t-act

Specific AAMC projections by 2034 include shortages of: Between 17,800 and 48,000 primary care physicians . Between 21,000 and 77,100 non-primary care …