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How has cardiovascular disease contributed to the rural–urban life expectancy gap?

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

Leah Abrams In the United States, rural residents do not live as long as their urban counterparts. in rural areas, but by 2005–2009, the difference was greater (78.8 We found that, from 1999 to 2009, the gap between urban and rural counties grew. more in men compared with rural life expectancy.

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‘No one can see you now’: What states are doing to boost primary care

Association of Health Care Journalists

Evidence abounds that access to primary care improves health and lowers costs. And yet, only 5% of health care spending in this country goes to primary care, less than in any other Western democracy. Freyer is a health care journalist based in Rhode Island. Prior to that, he was CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island.

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Hospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit

The Health Care Blog

Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. As a consequence, the Biden administration has targeted the health care industry for enhanced and more vigilant anti-trust enforcement. By JEFF GOLDSMITH and IAN MORRISON. Forty years later, there were 700 fewer facilities generating about $1.2