Study links three key variables to higher rural mortality rates in US

(Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center) Since the 1980s, the all-cause mortality rate for rural residents in the US has exceeded that of urban residents. In a recently published study, researchers from the F. Marie Hall Institute for Rural and Community Health at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center sought to determine why this disparity exists. The study results were presented in December 2019 at the Health Affairs Rural Health Forum hosted by the National Press Club in Washi...