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The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) is a national nonprofit professional association in the United States with more than 18,000 members. The association's mission is to provide leadership on rural health issues, which it attempts to carry out through education, communication, and advocacy.
Rural areas within the U.S. have been found to have a lower life expectancy than urban areas by approximately 2.4 years. [17] Rural U.S. populations are at a greater risk of mortality due to non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, and stroke, as well as unintentional injuries such as automobile accidents and opioid overdoses compared to urban ...
As of 2013, fracking is underway near Carmi. [3] The current population of White County is a little over 17,000, with 6,500 in the county seat of Carmi. There is a high number of retired people, and many citizens work in the factories of Evansville or Mount Vernon, Indiana, located 45 and 25 miles to the east, respectively. Besides oil and ...
Carmi (pronounced Car-my) is a city in and the county seat of White County, Illinois, United States, along the Little Wabash River, where the population was 5,240 at the 2010 census. [ citation needed ]
Congress created the ORHP in 1987 and charged HRSA with advising the HHS Secretary on health care matters affecting rural hospitals, coordinating activities that related to rural health care, and maintaining a national information clearinghouse for state governments, federal policymakers, and providers.
The center was originally known as the Center for Health Equity in Rural Montana but was renamed the Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity in January 2016. Allen Harmsen was the founding principal investigator from 2014 through 2015. In January 2016, Alexandra Adams became the director and principal investigator of CAIRHE.
Christopher J.L. Murray [1] [2] (born August 16, 1962) is an American physician, health economist, and global health researcher. He is a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he is chair of Health Metrics Science and the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
John Raymond Christopher (November 25, 1909 – February 6, 1983) was an American herbalist and naturopath. [1] He was known for his numerous lectures and publications on herbs . He developed over 50 herbal formulas used worldwide, and founded The School of Natural Healing in Springville, Utah .