Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Health occupations
How Community Health Workers Are Impacting Rural Communities
Describes ways in which communities can use funding to build community health worker programs in order to reduce health disparities. Highlights the University of Kansas Medical Center's Local Health Equity Action Teams initiative in 10 counties, 6 of which are rural.
Author(s): Shelby Rowell
Date: 04/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
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Describes ways in which communities can use funding to build community health worker programs in order to reduce health disparities. Highlights the University of Kansas Medical Center's Local Health Equity Action Teams initiative in 10 counties, 6 of which are rural.
Author(s): Shelby Rowell
Date: 04/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
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The State Perspective on Rural Behavioral Health Crisis Services
Provides an overview of a 12-month State Policy Academy on Rural Mental Health Crisis Services to help five states - Montana, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin - work to improve rural behavioral health crisis services. Summarizes lessons learned, successes, and next steps. Covers data-informed strategies, cross-state and stakeholder partnerships, financing and funding approaches, the behavioral health workforce, and telehealth.
Author(s): Miriam Pearsall, Sandra Wilkniss
Date: 04/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Academy for State Health Policy
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Provides an overview of a 12-month State Policy Academy on Rural Mental Health Crisis Services to help five states - Montana, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin - work to improve rural behavioral health crisis services. Summarizes lessons learned, successes, and next steps. Covers data-informed strategies, cross-state and stakeholder partnerships, financing and funding approaches, the behavioral health workforce, and telehealth.
Author(s): Miriam Pearsall, Sandra Wilkniss
Date: 04/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Academy for State Health Policy
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Availability of Healthcare Providers in Rural Areas Lags That of Urban Areas
Bar chart showing metro and nonmetro primary care physicians, dentists, and other healthcare professionals per 10,000 residents.
Date: 04/2023
Type: Chart/Graph
Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
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Bar chart showing metro and nonmetro primary care physicians, dentists, and other healthcare professionals per 10,000 residents.
Date: 04/2023
Type: Chart/Graph
Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
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Missouri Nursing Education Programs
Provides information on nursing education programs in Missouri, including county-level maps showing location of education programs, location of healthcare facilities, and number of licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and registered nurses (RNs) per 10,000 people.
Date: 03/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Missouri Health Care Workforce Project
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Provides information on nursing education programs in Missouri, including county-level maps showing location of education programs, location of healthcare facilities, and number of licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and registered nurses (RNs) per 10,000 people.
Date: 03/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Missouri Health Care Workforce Project
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South Carolina Mental Health Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA) By Category
County-level map showing Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas in South Carolina.
Date: 03/2023
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: South Carolina Department of Public Health
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County-level map showing Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas in South Carolina.
Date: 03/2023
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: South Carolina Department of Public Health
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2022 New York Residency Training Outcomes: A Summary of Responses to the 2022 New York Resident Exit Survey
Results of the 2022 New York State resident exit survey. Features statistics including percentage of physicians planning to work in Health Professional Shortage Areas and rural areas, and specialty areas with breakdowns by practice location, with 5 levels of population density.
Additional links: Key Findings Infographic
Author(s): Jinman Pang, David Armstrong
Date: 03/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Center for Health Workforce Studies
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Results of the 2022 New York State resident exit survey. Features statistics including percentage of physicians planning to work in Health Professional Shortage Areas and rural areas, and specialty areas with breakdowns by practice location, with 5 levels of population density.
Additional links: Key Findings Infographic
Author(s): Jinman Pang, David Armstrong
Date: 03/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Center for Health Workforce Studies
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National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps (NACNHSC) Meeting Minutes, March 21, 2023
Minutes from the March 21, 2023 virtual meeting, including presentations on maintaining funding priorities for the National Health Service Corps (NHSC); goals, strategic development, and planning for FY 2023–2024; and NHSC updates.
Additional links: Agenda, NHSC Updates
Date: 03/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps
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Minutes from the March 21, 2023 virtual meeting, including presentations on maintaining funding priorities for the National Health Service Corps (NHSC); goals, strategic development, and planning for FY 2023–2024; and NHSC updates.
Additional links: Agenda, NHSC Updates
Date: 03/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps
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Role of Rural Libraries in Promoting Digital Health Literacy
Webinar highlighting a rural library's efforts to increase digital health literacy and healthcare access in rural Texas. Discusses telehealth, broadband access inequities and digital literacy, transportation issues, aging in place, community health workers working in libraries, emergency response, circulating medical equipment, and summer meals for students. Transcript available in the video description.
Date: 03/2023
Type: Video/Multimedia
Sponsoring organization: Network of the National Library of Medicine
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Webinar highlighting a rural library's efforts to increase digital health literacy and healthcare access in rural Texas. Discusses telehealth, broadband access inequities and digital literacy, transportation issues, aging in place, community health workers working in libraries, emergency response, circulating medical equipment, and summer meals for students. Transcript available in the video description.
Date: 03/2023
Type: Video/Multimedia
Sponsoring organization: Network of the National Library of Medicine
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Indiana Oral Health Workforce Data Report: 2022
Provides information on the oral health workforce in Indiana, including total licenses, actively practicing dentists and dental hygienists, demographics and education of the workforce, employment and practice characteristics, geographic distribution of workforce by county, and more.
Author(s): Analise Dickinson, Mykayla Tobin, Chelsea Sparks, Sierra Vaughn, Hannah Maxey
Date: 03/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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Provides information on the oral health workforce in Indiana, including total licenses, actively practicing dentists and dental hygienists, demographics and education of the workforce, employment and practice characteristics, geographic distribution of workforce by county, and more.
Author(s): Analise Dickinson, Mykayla Tobin, Chelsea Sparks, Sierra Vaughn, Hannah Maxey
Date: 03/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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Indiana's Maternity Care Workforce: 2023
Provides data on the maternity care workforce in Indiana, such as number of physicians and advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), demographic profile of workforce, services provided, and county-level maps showing location of prenatal and postnatal services, labor and delivery services, and maternity care shortage areas or Maternity Care Health Professional Target Areas (MCTAs).
Author(s): Becky Boustani, Courtney Medlock, Strategy Hannah L. Maxey
Date: 03/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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Provides data on the maternity care workforce in Indiana, such as number of physicians and advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), demographic profile of workforce, services provided, and county-level maps showing location of prenatal and postnatal services, labor and delivery services, and maternity care shortage areas or Maternity Care Health Professional Target Areas (MCTAs).
Author(s): Becky Boustani, Courtney Medlock, Strategy Hannah L. Maxey
Date: 03/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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