Research from the USDA Economic Research Service finds that the gap in mortality, disability, and chronic disease between metro and non-metro areas has increased since 1989. Improvement in metro mortality rates has occurred at twice the rate of improvement in rural areas, resulting to approximately 70 extra deaths per 100,000 in rural areas for the 2001-2005 period.
The mortality rate increases as the level of urbanization declines, with metro counties having the lowest mortality rate and noncore counties having the highest rate, but there are significant regional differences. The South had the greatest metro-nonmetro difference in mortality rates in 2005, while there was essentially no difference across metropolitan, micropolitan, and noncore counties in the Midwest. Higher county mortality rates are associated with high persistent-poverty rates, high percent of Black or Appalachian population, and low rates of high school graduation.
Other disparities affecting rural areas include higher out-of-pocket costs for health care, limited access to specialty care, and lower adoption rates of health information technology.
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