Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: There is a gap in mortality between rural and urban people. This has been referred to as the rural mortality penalty (Alreshidai et al., 2020; James, 2014). There are more deaths in five major areas among rural than urban populations (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], n.d.). Data are now emerging that indicate rural Americans are in the unenviable position of being more likely to have died from covid-19 than those in urban areas (Marema, 2022; Rural Health Information Hub, n.d.). Although covid was initially seen more frequently and was the cause of more deaths in urban than rural areas; by August 1, 2020 the mortality rates were equal. Rural mortalities became higher than urban in all but three reporting weeks thereafter (CDC embedded data in Marema, 2022). In this data, rural was defined using Office of Management and Budget, 2013 criteria for counties outside of a metropolitan statistical area (as cited in Marema, 2022). The largest difference in rural/urban covid mortality, occurred December 2020; rural 8.29 vs. urban 4.79, per 100,000 per week.
Author: Pamela Stewart Fahs
Institution: Binghamton University
Language: English
Subfield: Modeling and Simulation
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4380995254