Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An 18% higher adjusted mortality rate was found in medium/small metropolitan and rural areas vs. large ...

Promoting sustainable development in both urban and rural areas has become a globally shared concern. Urban–rural ...

A new study has found that suicide rates in rural communities continues to be higher than those in urban areas, largely due to challenges with accessing mental health resources. Rural residents face ...

Rural Americans – particularly men – are expected to live significantly shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts, according to our research, recently published in the Journal of Rural ...

Rural states are targeting their broadband infrastructure funding toward particular policy goals like advancing health care, workforce development and education, as they dole out millions in federal ...

Government scholars Suzanne Mettler and Trevor Brown both grew up in rural communities—and both were struck by how divided those small towns became. "Growing up, many of my family friends voted for ...

A CDC report shows people living in rural areas experience greater COPD risk, hospitalizations, and mortality. Factors like high rates of smoking, limited access to COPD care, and rural industries may ...

BENGALURU: Karnataka’s rural women are better employed in comparison to those in urban areas and men in both areas ...