This project aims to explore urban-rural and regional differences in potential exposure to contaminated waters and/or polluted air. In addition to identifying such differences, we will explore potential covariates that help examine the observed spatial patterns.
Lead Researcher: Jan M. Eberth, PhD
Funded: September 2021
Anticipated Completion Date: December 2023
This project will examine the degree to which counties with a high need for diabetes education, defined by high diabetes prevalence, have such education available. Findings will be linked to a related study that will examine the availability of dialysis for end stage renal disease, a severe outcome of poorly addressed diabetes.
Lead Researcher: Janice C. Probst, PhD
Funded: September 2022
Anticipated Completion Date: August 2023
In both rural and urban areas, prior research has documented shortages of key healthcare facilities in areas where a significant proportion of the population identify as African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Hispanic, or as a member of another minoritized racial/ethnic group. This analysis will compare the likelihood that selected healthcare infrastructure elements, including hospitals, primary care services, long-term care, behavioral health services, and home health, are available within rural and urban ZIP Code Tabulation Areas that contain versus do not contain a high proportion of minoritized residents.
Lead Researchers: Gabriel Benavidez and Elizabeth Crouch, PhD
Funded: September 2022
Anticipated Completion Date: December 2023
This project will examine the degree to which counties with a high population risk for end stage renal disease, defined by high diabetes prevalence, are served by dialysis providers. It will access the accessibility and quality of services for end stage renal disease looking for disparities associated with rural residence and racial/ethnic population composition.
Lead Researcher: Janice C. Probst, PhD
Funded: September 2022
Anticipated Completion Date: August 2023
This project will assess changes in Medicare per-beneficiary spending across rural and urban counties from 2007 to 2020. It will examine differences in rural versus urban per-beneficiary spending on hospital inpatient, hospital outpatient, physician, and post-acute care after the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Lead Researchers: Peiyin Hung, PhD and Theodoros Giannouchos, PhD
Funded: September 2022
Anticipated Completion Date: August 2023
This project will examine whether the availability of hospital-based cardiac testing services has changed over the past ten years in rural and urban counties and identify the characteristics of counties where service availability has changed.
Lead Researcher: Jan M. Eberth, PhD
Funded: September 2020
Anticipated Completion Date: February 2023
Our goal is to evaluate rural-urban, racial/ethnic, and regional differences in access to care using a population-based survey through the following aims:
- To examine the rural-urban differences in affordability of health care overall and stratified by race/ethnicity.
- To assess the rural-urban differences in accommodation in health care overall and stratified by race/ethnicity.
- To determine the rural-urban differences in acceptability of health care overall and stratified by race/ethnicity.
Lead Researchers: Jan M. Eberth, PhD and Whitney Zahnd, PhD
Funded: September 2021
Anticipated Completion Date: August 2023
The purpose of this project is to document the recent trends of mental health care access and quality in urban and rural communities and to assess the intersectionality of residence rurality and race/ethnicity on disparities in mental health care access and quality.
Lead Researcher: Peiyin Hung, PhD
Funded: September 2021
Anticipated Completion Date: August 2023