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A Weekly Health Policy Round Up From Health Affairs
December 29, 2019
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RURAL HEALTH
Rural-Urban Differences In Severe Maternal Morbidity And Mortality In The US, 2007–15
By Katy Backes Kozhimannil, Julia D. Interrante, Carrie Henning-Smith, and Lindsay K. Admonil
In the United States, severe maternal morbidity and mortality is climbing—a reality that is especially challenging for rural communities, which face declining access to obstetric services. Using data for 2007–15 from the National Inpatient Sample, Katy Kozhimannil and coauthors analyzed severe maternal morbidity and mortality during childbirth hospitalizations among rural and urban residents. Read More >>
Declines In Pediatric Mortality Fall Short For Rural US Children
By Janice Probst, Whitney Zahnd, and Charity Breneman
While pediatric death rates have declined nationally, disparities remain for some groups of children. Janice Probst and coauthors analyzed mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, finding that rural youth ages 0–19 were more likely than urban youth to die during childhood throughout the period from 1999 through 2017. In addition, while the death rate for rural children dropped 19 percent between 1999 and 2017, from 77.6 per 100,000 children to 62.9 per 100,000, the decline among urban children was significantly greater—a decrease of 24 percent, from 66.4 per 100,000 to 50.2 per 100,000. Among rural children, non-Hispanic black infants and American Indian/Alaska Native children were particularly at risk. Read More >>
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GRANTWATCH
Foundation Funding To Improve Rural Health Care
By Lee L. Prina
The December 2019 GrantWatch column goes along with that issue’s theme, rural health. The column describes results of rural health funding and mentions rural health publications funded by foundations. The column also includes a long list of other foundations around the country that fund in rural health, which should be helpful to grantseekers. In the Key Personnel Change section, a professor of pediatrics, who
is said to be "one of the nation’s leading advocates for rural children’s health," was named to the board of a foundation. Read More >>
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