The rural crisis:
Gene therapy could make cancer care more unequal, and this map shows why.
Statistics show rural hospital closures are now at crisis levels.
Rural residents have just 13 physicians per 100K people, compared to 33 in urban areas.
NEW (12.4.19): The urban-rural health divide is costing lives … and this package from Axios is excellent: The rural-American death spiral (see also: Rural Americans can’t catch a break).
NEW (12.13.19): Data Access, Quality Issues Exacerbate Rural Health Disparities
NEW (2.21.20): Most Former CHS Hospitals Losing Money, Bankrupt or Closed
The urban crisis:
The Trace got 14 years of gunshot data from the New York Police Department. They mapped each gunshot incident and looked at survival rates across the city. This is what they found.
Can America’s urban food deserts bloom? (This one is from 2009, y’all.)