Sam the rural health advoCATe observes one common pattern: diabetes is more prevalent in rural.

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War 🤝infectious disease

Nearly as many soldiers died from the flu in WWI as combat. More soldiers died from infectious disease than combat in the Civil War.

Grimly shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Diabetes, hypertension, and resulting kidney disease are more common in rural. And RHTP $$ are simply insufficient.

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Okay, I’ll stop dropping hints about rural 😹😹😹

Maybe re rural. The map in the HA Scholar article showed concentration in major, big population markets. Don’t give up! We need you!

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The changing landscape of primary care: an analysis of payer-primary care integration AbstractIntroduction. Insurer ownership of primary care practices has expanded rapidly in recent years, but its magnitude, geographic distribution, and mar

Sam the rural health advoCATe suggests rural > giving up. Rural counties slant poor, to they don’t attract the “money only”
crowd, and they slant old, so they need geriatricians. Just a thought.

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Overcoming Challenges With Rural-Related Health Data: Lessons Learned From Published Studies Research Alert from the Rural Health Research Gateway for: Overcoming Challenges With Rural-Related Health Data: Lessons Learned From Published Studies

A new rural health research resource, shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe, who recognizes the need for methodologically sound rural research.

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www.ruralhealthresearch.org/alerts/710

A graphic of the article headline, with the logo for People at the top followed by the headline, "EXCLUSIVE: singer Gaelynn Lea as people assume she must be miserable because of her disability: 'I have an awesome life'. Then there is a picture of of Gaelynn Lea playing her violin on a stage at the bottom of the graphic

Woo-hoo!!! 🥳 Thank you SO MUCH to People Magazine for writing about my memoir, the perception of disability, and my music! I am so excited that the book is finally out in the world... Thank you to the many lovely people who are helping to spread the word! ❤️

Read it here: people.com/singer-gaely...

Getting a Loan for Grad School Is About to Get More Complicated

Yet another broadly designed policy likely to disproportionately affect rural students, and ultimately reduce rural practitioners, hisses Sam the rural health advoCATe.

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Closeup of a grey tabby cat with his head pensively resting on his cat tree. Gorgeous white whiskers.

Sometimes it feels hard to focus on rural health research, or any public health research, when one is unsure that anyone is listening or that any policy changes will be made, muses Sam the rural health advoCATe. Even gorgeous whiskers might not be enough.

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Safeguarding health care in rural Missouri demands a new approach • Missouri Independent Missouri lawmakers are right to treat the collapse of rural health care as an urgent crisis. Nearly half of the state’s remaining rural hospitals are at risk of closure, and many communities already k...

Safeguarding health care in rural Missouri demands a new approach missouriindependent.com/2026/04/14/s...

A Roadmap for Building and Implementing a Comprehensive State Graduate Medical Education Strategy: Actionable Steps to Align Investments with Workforce Needs | Milbank Memorial Fund This evidence-based framework organizes a GME growth strategy into five iterative stages: exploration, strategy development, strategy design, technical assistance, and optimization.

Shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe.

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Convincing women to go on the record by name when they’ve seen that it results in no change — and a lot of people won’t believe them — can take years. One of the named sources in a 2024 story of mine declined to participate in 2017. Eventually, her life and job enabled it. And he’s still in office.

Statement on the Detention of Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA) are aware of and deeply concerned by the detention of Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar, an ACEP member a...

Thankful for @acepnation.bsky.social for speaking up! Where are the other medical societies? #MedSky

NRHA Rural Community Health Initiative | National Rural Health Association - NRHA | NRHA The National Rural Health Association has been serving rural communities by advancing and publicizing issues related to rural community health workers and seeking to solve rural health care challenges...

Opportunity shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Sometimes folks need a little advice; NRHA can link communities to long term consults.

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Identification and Characteristics of Under-Resourced and High-Need Rural Counties Research Alert from the Rural Health Research Gateway for: Identification and Characteristics of Under-Resourced and High-Need Rural Counties

New research, shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Sadly, "Nearly two-thirds ... of rural counties nationwide were classified as high-need in at least one domain."
Sam suspects that those counties will be neglected in RHAP funding.

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www.ruralhealthresearch.org/alerts/708

My skepticism is even deeper: choice is an economist’s concept that assumes customer choice in a market economy is key to healthcare. Healthcare can never function as a market (Arrow, AER 1964) and should be a regulated utility.

An important learning opportunity, shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Sam wants rural moms and kittens to thrive.

@ruralhealth.bsky.social

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Glad we could help! And we take any and all rural questions. All rural, all the time. 🐈‍⬛

Sam the rural health advoCATe thinks sponsoring journalists who explore rural health issues would be purrrrfect, JS.

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Lingering under the radar Strongyloides stercoralis is an intestinal parasite rarely seen in the U.S. University of South Carolina researchers Dr. Melissa Nolan and Dr. Matthew Haldeman wondered if these worms might still be lingering under the radar in South Carolina. What they found surprised them.

Melissa Nolan, associate professor of epidemiology and director of USC’s Institute for Infectious Disease Translational Research, and Arnold School alumnus Matthew Haldeman have found a rare intestinal parasite that could affect 1 in 20 South Carolinians. https://ow.ly/lyni50Yxor5

I got an email from a textbook publisher asking if I happened to have a personal backup of all the project files from a music recording project we did a decade ago, since they lost track of them in a server migration, and I'd just like to say thank you for validating my never delete anything policy

Ambulance Deserts (ADs) and Health Care Deserts (HCDs) Across 41 states in 2020-2021, 4.5m people live in ADs. In rural areas, 3.7m live in ADs, 2.7m live in HCDs and 1.5m live in AD & HCDs.

Sam the rural health advoCATe shares a new graphic depiction of health care shortages, from the Northeast Rural Health Research Center at the University of Maine. Ambulance gaps make other gaps even worse.

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My college sophomore hates it with the fire of a thousand suns. Her business prof wants her to use it regularly, and she fights back every time.
“So, business wants me to use an untrustworthy tool that’s susceptible to unknown influence? That explains so much about corporate America.”

NRHA National Rural Age-Friendly Initiative | National Rural Health Association - NRHA | NRHA The National Rural Health Association has been serving rural communities by advancing and publicizing age-friendly rural health issues and seeking to solve rural health care challenges through program...

A learning opportunity shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe, who loves CHWs.

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I also check all citations I don’t recognize when reviewing. Can’t believe this is considered odd.

This is surely the case for public health, scientific research...