Timothy Callaghan1,2, Alva O Ferdinand1,2, Marvellous A Akinlotan1,2, Samuel D Towne2,3,4, Jane Bolin1,2. 1. Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. 2. Southwest Rural Health Research Center, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. 3. Department of Health Management and Informatics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida. 4. Disability, Aging, and Technology Cluster, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
Abstract
PURPOSE: This brief report examines place-based differences in diabetes mortality in order to understand whether disparities in diabetes mortality have changed across United States Census regions and levels of rurality over time. METHODS: We use data from the National Center for Health Statistics from 1999 to 2016 to analyze changes in diabetes mortality over time and across geographical regions of the United States. FINDINGS: We find evidence that diabetes mortality has declined in the United States over the past 2 decades, but that improvements in mortality vary considerably by place. Improvements are observed in urban America and in the Northeast and Midwest while diabetes mortality has remained largely unchanged in rural areas, particularly in the rural South. CONCLUSIONS: Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, but important differences have emerged in the burden of this disease. Reductions in diabetes mortality are lagging in rural areas, and the rural South in particular, relative to other areas of the country. Continued innovations in care and targeted interventions in rural areas are warranted.
PURPOSE: This brief report examines place-based differences in diabetes mortality in order to understand whether disparities in diabetes mortality have changed across United States Census regions and levels of rurality over time. METHODS: We use data from the National Center for Health Statistics from 1999 to 2016 to analyze changes in diabetes mortality over time and across geographical regions of the United States. FINDINGS: We find evidence that diabetes mortality has declined in the United States over the past 2 decades, but that improvements in mortality vary considerably by place. Improvements are observed in urban America and in the Northeast and Midwest while diabetes mortality has remained largely unchanged in rural areas, particularly in the rural South. CONCLUSIONS:Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, but important differences have emerged in the burden of this disease. Reductions in diabetes mortality are lagging in rural areas, and the rural South in particular, relative to other areas of the country. Continued innovations in care and targeted interventions in rural areas are warranted.
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