The Long Decline: Health care access grows difficult in shrinking rural communities

The Long Decline: Health care access grows difficult in shrinking rural communities
Alabama Reflector, by Alanda Rocha; 1/18/24
The lack of health care providers in rural Alabama is stark. Most of Alabama’s rural counties have significantly more people per primary care physician than urban counties. Butler County ... has just one primary care physician per 4,900 residents ... As rural Alabama continues a decades-long population collapse, residents who remain — many of them older people — face increasing barriers to health care, a trend seen around the nation.