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Residents in 'digital deserts' have fewer health care options

June 13, 2023

A University of Cincinnati epidemiologist found that residents in counties with limited access to high-speed internet face fewer health care options than people who live in counties with widespread computer literacy and access to high-speed internet.

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Narrowing the digital divide for health care

March 24, 2023

Many parts of rural America with less access to health care also have limited broadband internet that could help them take advantage of increasingly popular online health services.

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Can cities make room for woodpeckers?

March 30, 2023

Researchers are deploying the latest mapping techniques to identify the most important suburban habitat for North America’s largest woodpecker.

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UC research helps identify vulnerable populations

February 10, 2023

Research from the University of Cincinnati is helping to expose the health disparities that negatively affect Ohioans in poorer communities, both urban and rural, and guiding solutions to offer better care.

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COVID vaccinations lag in rural, underserved communities

December 15, 2022

A new study in the Lancet found that wide disparities in health care coverage, particularly in rural areas, hampered vaccination efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings point to a hidden divide in America between those with ready geographic and financial access to doctors, hospitals and clinics and those without.

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Championing science amid adversity

University of Cincinnati epidemiologist Diego Cuadros is used to telling people what they don’t want to hear. The assistant professor runs the Health Geography and Disease Modeling Lab in UC’s College of Arts and Sciences, where he studies global topics such as HIV, malaria and, this year, COVID-19. He condenses data into easy-to-follow maps that predict the future with uncanny accuracy.

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UC finds ancient Maya reservoirs contained toxic pollution

June 26, 2020

A diverse team of biologists, chemists, anthropologists and geographers from the University of Cincinnati identified toxic mercury and algae in two central reservoirs of Tikal, an ancient Maya city, in the ninth century shortly before the city was abandoned.