ArticleHealth & place2024
Rural-urban residence and life expectancies with and without pain.
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- Loneliness Factors in Aging Veterans and Civilians: A Comparative Study.Military medicine · 2026Article
- Chronic pain prevalence and trends in urban, suburban, and rural areas among American adults aged 55+, 1998-2022.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- Rural Missourians' perspectives on pain: "I like to be in control of my life".Health & place · 2025Article
- Development of chronic pain and high-impact chronic pain across the US rural-urban continuum, 2019-2020.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2025Article
- Community engagement strategies improve recruitment and enrollment in a pragmatic clinical trial.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2025Article
- U.S. Rural Population Health and Aging in the 2020s.The Public policy and aging report · 2025Review
- Minimising Harm and Managing Pain: Deprescribing Opioids in Older Adults.Drugs & aging · 2024Review
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Abstract
This paper analyzes rural-urban disparities in life expectancy with and without pain among upper-middle age and older adults. Data are from the nationally representative Health and Retirement Study, 2000-2018, N = 18,160, age 53+. Interpolated Markov Chain software, based on the multistate life tables, is used to calculate absolute and relative pain expectancies by age, sex, rural-suburban-urban residence and U.S. regions. Results show significant rural disadvantages versus those in urban and often suburban areas. Example: males at 55 in rural areas can expect to live 15.1 years, or 65.2 percent pain-free life, while those in suburban areas expect to live 1.7 more years, or 2.6 percentage points more, pain-free life and urban residents expect to live 2.4 more year, or 4.7 percentage points more. The rural disadvantage persists for females, with differences being a little less prominent. At very old age (85+), rural-urban differences diminish or reverse. Rural-urban pain disparities are most pronounced in the Northeast and South regions, and least in the Midwest and West. The findings highlight that rural-urban is an important dimension shaping the geography of pain. More research is needed to disentangle the mechanisms through which residential environments impact people's pain experiences.
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