Reimagining Rural Health Equity: Understanding Disparities and Advancing Rural Policy, Practice, And Research

October 25 at 12pm CST/11am MST

Decades of underinvestment in rural communities, health care, and public health institutions left rural America uniquely vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the pandemic prompted creative actions to meet immediate health and social needs and illuminated opportunities to address long standing rural health disparities. Acting on these lessons is critical to narrowing rural health disparities. This talk discusses the recent Health Affairs commentary, “Reimagining Rural Health Equity: Understanding Disparities And Orienting Policy, Practice, And Research In Rural America” and offers principles for addressing the rural health disparities.

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