Structural Factors and Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Travel Times to Acute Care Hospitals in the Rural US South, 2007-2018.
Arrianna Marie PlaneyDonald A PlaneySandy WongSara L McLaffertyMichelle J KoPublished in: The Milbank quarterly (2023)
Rural places affected by rural hospital closures have greater travel burdens for acute care. Across the rural South, racial/ethnic inequities in spatial access to acute care are most pronounced when travel times to the second nearest open acute care hospital are accounted for.