What question did this study set out to answer?

To evaluate the trends, persistence, and magnitude of rural-urban place-based mortality disparities in comparison to other demographic and socioeconomic factors.

November 29, 2018American Journal of Public HealthOpen Access

Growth and Persistence of Place-Based Mortality in the United States: The Rural Mortality Penalty

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ACArthur G. CosbyMississippi State University MMM. Maya McDoom-EchebiriBloomberg (United States)WJWesley JamesJohns Hopkins University

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Population-based study reveals a growing rural mortality penalty in the United States, highlighting the urgent need for targeted public health interventions in high-poverty locales.

Key Points

To evaluate the trends, persistence, and magnitude of rural-urban place-based mortality disparities in comparison to other demographic and socioeconomic factors.
Epidemiological analysis tracking longitudinal trends in place-based mortality across rural and urban locales in the United States through 2016.
Comparative disparity assessment benchmarking the rural mortality penalty against educational attainment and racial disparities.
The rural-urban mortality gap persisted and expanded over time, emerging as exceptionally large compared to other geographic mortality disparities.
By 2016, the gap transformed into a high-poverty rural penalty that rivaled the mortality effects of education and surpassed the mortality effects of race.

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Cosby et al. (2018) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dcffdf7d2a65005be52dc4 https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2018.304787

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Population-based study reveals a growing rural mortality penalty in the United States, highlighting the urgent need for targeted public health interventions in high-poverty locales.

Growth and Persistence of Place-Based Mortality in the United States: The Rural Mortality Penalty

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Growth and Persistence of Place-Based Mortality in the United States: The Rural Mortality Penalty

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