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Resources by Topic: Behavioral health

Cancer Risk Factors and Rurality
Analyzes cancer rate data by smoking, healthcare visits, uninsured status, premature mortality, and race and ethnicity. Includes interactive data visualizations comparing metro and nonmetro differences at the county level. Offers a video tutorial for interacting with the data.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Resource Center
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San Joaquin Valley Climate and Health Indicators Data Dashboard
Dashboard providing county-level data on demographics, climate, infrastructure, health behaviors, and select physical and mental health conditions in California's San Joaquin Valley.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Central Valley Health Policy Institute
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Mental Health America: Rural Mental Health Resources
Highlights resources and information on rural mental health and wellbeing. Discusses mental healthcare access, stigma, telehealth, rural isolation and loneliness, and youth mental health in rural communities.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Mental Health America
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Oklahoma Prevention Needs Assessment (OPNA)
Provides data on youth health risk behaviors and protective factors related to community, school, family, and peer settings among grade 6-12 students in Oklahoma. Use the OPNA Data Query System Dashboard button to access interactive dashboards of state and county-level data.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS)
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National Tribal Behavioral Health Agenda
Highlights behavioral health options for American Indian and Alaska Native tribal leaders and federal partners. Discusses behavioral health issues and interventions in tribal communities and explores policy recommendations.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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Interactive Summary Health Statistics for Children
Provides estimates of children impacted by selected health topics such as health status, insurance coverage, healthcare use and access, school intervention services, and more between 2019-2023 via interactive tables and charts. Allows user to select health topics according to demographic, socio-economic, and geographic variables, such as metropolitan statistical area (MSA), urbanicity, region, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) social vulnerability index (SVI).
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Statistics
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Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) Public Health Data Portal Dashboards
Gallery of interactive dashboards displaying Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) public health data on topics including cancer, infectious disease, opioid overdose, suicide, emergency medical response, trauma, and more. Dashboards include demographic, year-by-year, and county-by-county data.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Arizona Department of Health Services
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Behavioral Health Careers by State
Tool provides information on basic requirements for careers in the fields of mental health and substance use. Includes details on licensure needed, issuing agency, and license renewal requirements for each state.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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Developing a Rural Community Approach to Overcoming Stigma
Discusses the Community Conversation on Opioid Use Disorder workshop model as a community-engaged process for stigma reduction in rural areas. Includes short videos with subtitles and links to resources supporting workshops and other stigma-reduction programs.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: University of Rochester Medicine Recovery Center of Excellence
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Wisconsin Suicide Prevention: Data
Offers data on suicide in Wisconsin by various demographic, mental health, and geographic factors including a rural and urban comparison. Includes related reports, fact sheets, and other dashboards and data.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
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