City-Country Mortality Gap Widens Amid Persistent Holes in Rural Health Care Access By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez APRIL 9, 2024

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/rural-urban-mortality-gap-widening/?utm_campaign=KHN%20-%20Weekly%20Edition&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9K4KipgPomRezCgK4pLkUiaQzJLZlup-DFjXaVxr2cij_CvsCeQGPpEbA5dnltM99qWhIP6dx3Ra_yYaj7JzFKxSY2PA&_hsmi=302404103&utm_content=302404103&utm_source=hs_email In Matthew Roach’s two years as vital statistics manager for the Arizona Department of Health Services, and 10 years previously in its epidemiology program, he has witnessed a trend in mortality rates that has rural health experts worried.