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Resources by Topic: Health workforce

Reimagine Rural Health in Missouri
Summarizes the current infrastructure, workforce, access strategies and policies to strengthen the delivery of rural health in Missouri.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Missouri Hospital Association
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Utah Office of Primary Care and Rural Health Data Portal
Offers a compilation of interactive maps of Utah on a variety of topics, including Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), healthcare facilities, primary care grants, rural and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), J-1 visa awardees, approved sites for loan repayment programs, and Utah's loan repayment awards. Several maps include county-level data.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Utah Office of Primary Care and Rural Health
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Idaho Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
A bureau within the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare offering information for EMS providers including resources on license applications, EMS rules and regulations, requirements for agency licensure and renewal, agency contacts and grant resources. Provides a discussion of the Idaho Community Health EMS (CHEMS) model and lists certification programs appropriate for CHEMS paramedics.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Idaho Department of Health and Welfare
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Creating a Culture of Health in Appalachia: Disparities and Bright Spots
An initiative focused on health outcomes in Appalachian communities. Provides access to health disparities data on health status, healthcare delivery, and social determinants of health (SDOH) indicators for counties within the rural Appalachian region. Also identifies and provides case studies of "Bright Spots", counties in the region with better-than-expected health outcomes.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organizations: Appalachian Regional Commission, Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Kansas Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas Geographic and Low-Income County-Level Designations
Shows a map of Kansas identifying the counties designated as Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) and the counties designated as geographic and low-income Primary Care HPSAs.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Office of Primary Care and Rural Health
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Texas Health Data
Provides public health datasets for Texas addressing healthcare use and quality, mortality, opioids, lifestyle risk factors, the health workforce, maternal and child health, and more. Filtering options vary by data source and may include data by county, Metropolitan Service Area, and border counties.
Type: Database
Sponsoring organization: Texas Health and Human Services
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Scopes of Practice for Behavioral Health Professionals
Tool for finding state-by-state characteristics of the behavioral health professional workforce, including credentialing requirements and services they are allowed to perform.
Type: Tool
Sponsoring organization: Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center
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California Health and Human Services Open Data Portal
Provides over 400 datasets, including county level data, on healthcare workforce, mortality rates and causes, demographics, facilities and services, diseases and conditions, and the environment for California.
Type: Database
Sponsoring organization: California Department of Health Care Services
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Rural Opioid Educational Resources
A comprehensive list of National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health resources addressing the opioid crisis. Includes reports, webinar recordings, promising practices, training materials, and medication-assisted treatment (MAT) resources. Also offers customizable posters, flyers, brochures, and more.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health
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Med School Mapper
Interactive map locates medical schools and graduates across the U.S. Features county-level data detailing the number of physicians and the medical schools they graduated from. Details population information for selected areas.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Robert Graham Center
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