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2022 Alaska Scorecard: Key Issues Impacting Alaska Mental Health Trust Beneficiaries
Highlights the 2022 results of Alaska's Comprehensive Integrated mental Health Program plan. Presents data on early childhood mental health, substance use and prevention, and healthcare workforce.
Additional links: Scorecard Overview
Date: 04/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority
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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 Health and Environmental Control
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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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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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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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Forces Driving Change in Rural North Carolina
Examines major forces driving change in rural North Carolina communities, which influence people, communities, and businesses. Includes sections on rural healthcare inequities, social determinants of health, and the long-term impact of COVID-19 on rural people. Features a county-level map showing health outcome rankings as of 2022, and statistics on the number of healthcare professionals per 10,000 people, with breakdowns by urban, suburban, and rural areas.
Date: 03/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Center
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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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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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Oversight Hearing – Addressing the Challenges of Rural America
Recording of a March 29, 2023, House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies regarding challenges rural communities face. Discussions include access to healthcare; rural workforce development, including the healthcare workforce; telehealth; and more.
Additional links: Carrie Cochran-McClain, National Rural Health Association - Testimony, Tearsanee Davis, University of Mississippi Medical Center - Testimony, Tom Morris, Federal Office of Rural Health Policy - Testimony
Date: 03/2023
Type: Video/Multimedia
Sponsoring organization: House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
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Integration of Case-Based Dialogue to Enhance Medical Students' Understanding of Using Health Communication to Address Social Determinants of Health
Examines the impact of case-based social determinants of health (SDOH) curriculum on third year medical student knowledge related to SDOH and willingness to care for culturally diverse and underserved patients. Analyzes pre- and post-test survey answers from 640 medical students about their SDOH perceptions and knowledge, including confidence levels in working with rural and medically underserved patients.
Author(s): Jalysa King, Jennifer Taylor
Citation: Advances in Medical Education and Practice,14, 237-244
Date: 03/2023
Type: Document
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