Ohio suffers badly from health ‘dead zones,’ new report finds

The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement.

When it comes to health, low-income rural communities in Ohio and elsewhere face a double whammy: residents tend to be sicker and they tend to have fewer health professionals.

A report released this week by KFF Health News shows that some of those communities actually face a triple whammy. They also lack sufficient broadband to allow health professionals to remotely diagnose and treat people who otherwise lack access…

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