Rural-Urban Differences in Workers' Access to Paid Sick Leave.

Paid sick leave (PSL) is associated with health care access and health outcomes. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of PSL as a public health strategy, yet PSL is not guaranteed in the United States. Rural workers may have more limited PSL, but research on rural PSL has been limited.

Use of electronic health records to manage tobacco screening and treatment in rural primary care.

Purpose: Electronic health records (EHRs) can facilitate primary care providers' (PCPs) use of best practices in addressing tobacco dependence. It is unknown whether rural PCPs reap the same benefits as their urban counterparts when employing EHRs for this purpose. Our study examines this issue.

Rural-urban residence and emergency contraception use, access, and counseling in the United States, 2006-2017.

Objective: To estimate differences in emergency contraception (EC) use, access, and counseling by rural-urban residence among reproductive age women in the United States.

Study Design: We examined respondent data (2006-2017) from the National Survey of Family Growth for women ages 15-44 ( 28,448) to estimate EC use, access, and counseling by rural-urban county of residence. Rural-urban prevalence ratios for EC outcome measures were estimated using predicted margins from logistic regression models, which were adjusted for demographic differences and current contraceptive method use.