[UCM LIST: Healthprofadvising-l] Rural Reproductive Health & the Digital Divide: Why Access Can’t Wait - INFO SESSION: May 11th

[Noreen Balos]

AMSA Digital Rural Health Corps<https://www.amsa.org/digital-rural-health/>

INFO SESSION: How to become a Digital Health Navigator<https://forms.clickup.com/8612164/f/86ua4-40791/SMD9CZXE79GNP2F7QX>

Monday, May 11th at 7:00 PM ET

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Rural Reproductive Health & the Digital Divide: Why Access Can’t Wait<https://go.amsa.org/e/927813/l-divide-why-access-cant-wait-/2zzngx/1138571061/h/DEgbI8sqcJ9f_yCBoS1Wo7ywTn6rxBkWHMG5c56tAi4>

AMSA's On Call Blog
Rural communities across the U.S. face a quiet crisis in reproductive and maternal health – one that doesn’t make headlines as often as it should. Nearly 2.2 million women of reproductive age live in counties without a hospital offering obstetric services, and more than 35% of U.S. counties lack a single practicing OB-GYN (March of Dimes, 2022; ACOG, 2020). Rural America represents 75% of the national landmass and is home for almost 23% of U.S. women aged 18 years and older. (ACOG, Health Disparities in Rural Women 2014, reaffirmed 2024) For many patients, this means driving over an hour just to make a routine prenatal appointment – care that, for a normal pregnancy alone, spans multiple visits across all three trimesters.



Resources:

  *   Health disparities in rural women. ACOG. (n.d.) – Link<https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2014/02/health-disparities-in-rural-women>
  *   WHEN WOMEN ARE DESERTED: The Prevalence and Intersection of Abortion Care Deserts, Pregnancy Care Deserts, Broadband Internet Deserts, and Food Deserts in the United States – National Women’s Law Center – Link<https://nwlc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Updated-Deserts-Report-1.pdf>



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