TY - JOUR T1 - Higher injury rates, opportunities for prevention in rural communities JF - The Nation's Health JO - Nations Health SP - S8 LP - S8 VL - 47 IS - 5 AU - Kim Krisberg Y1 - 2017/07/01 UR - http://www.thenationshealth.org/content/47/5/S8.1.abstract N2 - Rural Americans face a greater risk of losing their lives to the nation’s top leading causes of death, including unintentional injury. In fact, research finds that unintentional injury fatalities are 50 percent higher in rural communities than in urban ones, due in part to greater risks of traffic crashes and opioid overdoses. ER -