The Rural Review

An online journal produced in conjunction with the Rural Reconciliation Project.

The Rural Review publishes digests of important academic contributions, program information, blog-style commentary, and periodic roundups of rural items from across academic disciplines and scholarly media.

Contributions from interested authors are welcome. Find our author guidelines here.

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Turnock & Mulrooney: Image and Performance Enhancing Drug Usage and Services in Rural Regions

In Exploring the Impacts of Rurality on Service Access and Harm Among Image and Performance Enhancing Drug (IPED) Users in a Remote English Region, Luke A. Turnock (Social and Political Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK) and Kyle J. D. Mulrooney (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, University of New England, Australia) consider the underexplored geographic and cultural impacts of rurality on IPED usage, particularly in relation to access to harm reduction service.

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Jonk et al.: Ambulance Deserts and Geographic Disparities in Ambulance Services

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.

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Rudolphi and Berg: Farm Family Mental Health

In Mental health of agricultural adolescents and adults: Preliminary results of a five-year study authors Josie M. Rudolph (Dept. of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois) and Richard L. Berg (Research Computing and Analytics, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield WI) identify and examine factors that influence the mental health of farmers and their families.

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Infographic No. 1: Rural Park Access

First in our series of infographics produced in Emily Prifogle's Law in Rural America seminar: an insightful look at how access to parks and public greenspaces varies across the urban/rural spectrum by Robert Brewer, a third-year law student at Michigan Law.

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Radke, Smeins, Ryckman, & Gruca: Delivering Rural Babies

In Closure of Labor & Delivery units in rural counties is associated with reduced adequacy of prenatal care, even when prenatal care remains available authors Stephanie M. Radke MD, MPH (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics), Laurel Smeins MD (Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics), Kelli K. Ryckman PhD (Department of Epidemiology and Pediatrics, University of Iowa), and Thomas S. Gruca PhD (Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa), MBA examine the availability of hospital-based obstetrical care in rural areas and the effect such availability has on prenatal care.

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Curtis et al.: Disparities in Access to Telemedicine

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.

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