New research reveals that certain social determinants of health-such as socioeconomic status, household characteristics, and racial/ethnic minority status-have significant effects on rural–urban ...

The shorter faces of these city-dwelling trash bandits offer a telltale sign of domestication and line up with a leading ...

New research reveals that certain social determinants of health—such as socioeconomic status, household characteristics, and ...

Rural Americans – particularly men – are expected to live significantly shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts, according to our research, recently published in the Journal of Rural ...

A new study has found that suicide rates in rural communities continues to be higher than those in urban areas, largely due to challenges with accessing mental health resources. Rural residents face ...

New research from The University of Texas at Arlington examines the widening health care gap between rural and urban ...

The question of where gun ownership is highest in the United States, particularly concerning the prevalence in rural versus ...

A major U.S. study reveals large gaps between urban and rural patients in quality of care received after a stroke and rates of survival. In more rural areas, the ability of hospitals to deliver ...

While urbanization has restricted and fragmented the natural ecosystems, it also creates new and diverse environmental ...

Raccoons have easy access to food in the form of human trash. It could be jump-starting physical and behavioral changes in the masked bandits, new research suggests.