Map of Appalachian Counties. Appalachian counties are defined according to the Appalachian Regional Commission. Rural and urban status definitions are from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ...

Meit said rural communities fare worse than urban communities in terms of their health outcomes. “What you see here is that for each of the five leading causes of death, rural populations do far worse ...

We didn’t fix the poverty issue in rural Appalachia, and [the residents there] have really, really bad cancer outcomes,” said researcher Nengliang (Aaron) Yao, PhD, of the School of Medicine ...

For the past nine years, I have been conducting research on rural health and poverty in Appalachia. It’s a complex region often painted in broad brushstrokes that miss the geographic ...

Kentucky’s 2014 Medicaid expansion improved health care and drug treatment in some of America’s poorest counties. Now, the state braces for cuts.

A woman who escaped her drug-addled hometown in rural Kentucky said Appalachia residents face similar problems as inner-city Black communities but get much less attention. "Some of the poor Black ...

The Ballmer Group, Blue Meridian Partners, and others are helping Partners for Rural Impact take a model from Harlem and adapt it for Appalachian Kentucky and beyond.

For many students in Appalachia, though, college is an impossible dream. The rate of bachelor’s degree attainment or higher in rural, Appalachian Ohio is 18.6 percent, compared to 31 percent for ...

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Now two funders — the Ballmer Group and Blue Meridian Partners — along with regional grantmakers and individual donors, are supporting PRI to adapt the model it honed in Appalachia for rural ...