In Ambulance Deserts: Geographic Disparities in the Provision of Ambulance Services authors Yvonne Jonk, Carly Milkowski, Zachariah Croll, and Karen Pearson (all of the Maine Rural Health Research Center, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine) provide a nation-wide analysis of access to ambulance services in the United States.

In Growing Superdiverse, Growing Apart – Modes of Incorporation of International Migrants in Rural Areas, authors Jakub Stachowski and Bente Rasmussen (both of the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway) analyze rural resident perceptions of international migration.

In A Guide to the American Community Survey (ACS) for the Rural Researcher: Unpacking the Conceptual and Technical Aspects of Using Secondary Data for Rural Research, author Kristie LeBeau demonstrates and identifies how authors can use the ACS to conduct rural research.

In Young Farmers in “The New World of Work”: The Contribution of New Media to the Work Engagement and Professional Identities, Ilkay Unay-Gailhard and Mark A. Brennan (both of UNESCO Community, Leadership, and Youth Development, Penn State University) examine work engagement and identity among young farmers in Crete and Cyprus.

In Disparities in digital access among American rural and urban households and implications for telemedicine-based services, authors Megan E. Curtis, Sarah E. Clingan, Yih-Ing Hser, Yuhui Zhu, and Larissa J. Mooney (all of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA), Huiying Guo (Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA) discuss rural disparities in digital access and the impact such access has on telemedicine services.

New digest out by 2023 @UNLCollegeofLaw graduate Lauren Olsen covering Cristina Gomez-Vidal and @anugomez’s study of how an often overlooked designation--unincorporated community status--impacts lived health outcomes for residents

https://www.ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/unincorporated-community-status-and-health

This digest summarizes recent empirical research by Young and Billings on civil access to justice needs, considering the impact of intersectional identity factors from queerness to disability, rurality, and parental status.