"Rural communities are in fact experiencing a disproportionate brunt of the impacts of war," a Wisconsin researcher said.
Released July 28, 2010
MADISON, Wis. -- The Iraq War has taken a greater toll on the nation's non-metropolitan areas because troops from rural areas experience higher rates of death in the war than those from urban parts of the United States, according to a new study by a University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist.
Rural troops experience higher death rates regardless of cause or military branch, suggesting that the consequences of war are more keenly felt by non-metropolitan areas of the U.S.
That puts military personnel from rural areas at a disadvantage to their peers from urban areas, shows the study, which was published earlier this month in the journal Demographic Research.
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