Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Health workforce
Indiana's Nursing Workforce: Characteristics as of 2023 Renewal - Registered Nurses Only
A data snapshot focused on total actively practicing registered nurses (RNs) in Indiana as of 2023. Includes information about RN specialty, practice setting, populations served, services, and county-level geographic distribution.
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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A data snapshot focused on total actively practicing registered nurses (RNs) in Indiana as of 2023. Includes information about RN specialty, practice setting, populations served, services, and county-level geographic distribution.
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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Indiana's Nursing Workforce: Characteristics as of 2023 Renewal - Clinical Nurse Specialists
A data snapshot focused on total actively practicing clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) in Indiana as of 2023. Includes information about CNS specialty, practice setting, populations served, services, and county-level geographic distribution.
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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A data snapshot focused on total actively practicing clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) in Indiana as of 2023. Includes information about CNS specialty, practice setting, populations served, services, and county-level geographic distribution.
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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Indiana's Nursing Workforce: Characteristics as of 2023 Renewal - Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists
A data snapshot focused on total actively practicing certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) in Indiana as of 2023. Includes information about CRNA specialty, practice setting, populations served, services, and county-level geographic distribution.
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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A data snapshot focused on total actively practicing certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) in Indiana as of 2023. Includes information about CRNA specialty, practice setting, populations served, services, and county-level geographic distribution.
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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Indiana's Nursing Workforce: Characteristics as of 2023 Renewal - Nurse Practitioners
A data snapshot focused on total actively practicing nurse practitioners (NPs) in Indiana as of 2023. Includes information about NP specialty, practice setting, populations served, services, and county-level geographic distribution.
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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A data snapshot focused on total actively practicing nurse practitioners (NPs) in Indiana as of 2023. Includes information about NP specialty, practice setting, populations served, services, and county-level geographic distribution.
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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Indiana's Physician Workforce Demand
Provides information on the supply and demand of physicians in Indiana, including workforce estimates through 2030. Includes data on county-level job projections, growth, and openings.
Author(s): Madison Bott
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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Provides information on the supply and demand of physicians in Indiana, including workforce estimates through 2030. Includes data on county-level job projections, growth, and openings.
Author(s): Madison Bott
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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Rural Areas Face Steep Decline in Independent Physicians and Practices
Examines the decline in numbers of independent physicians and physician-owned medical practices in rural areas and a growing shift toward hospital and corporate employment and practice ownership. Features statistics with breakdowns by state in the years from 2019 through 2024.
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: Physicians Advocacy Institute
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Examines the decline in numbers of independent physicians and physician-owned medical practices in rural areas and a growing shift toward hospital and corporate employment and practice ownership. Features statistics with breakdowns by state in the years from 2019 through 2024.
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: Physicians Advocacy Institute
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2025 Indiana Girl Report Dashboard
Provides interactive regional and county-level data on girls in Indiana. Includes demographic information, population to provider ratios, health insurance data, educational attainment, reported bullying, poverty, and more. Offers interactive county-level maps as well as county-level data in the drop-down menu.
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organizations: Girl Coalition of Indiana, Girl Scouts, Indiana Youth Institute
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Provides interactive regional and county-level data on girls in Indiana. Includes demographic information, population to provider ratios, health insurance data, educational attainment, reported bullying, poverty, and more. Offers interactive county-level maps as well as county-level data in the drop-down menu.
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organizations: Girl Coalition of Indiana, Girl Scouts, Indiana Youth Institute
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Challenges and Strategies to Improve Access to Oral Health Care in Rural America
Provides an overview of barriers to oral health in rural areas, and discusses strategies to increase access to oral health care and improve rural public health outcomes. Covers topics including dental insurance, service delivery models, oral health workforce, the role of oral health professionals in addressing opioid and tobacco use, and water fluoridation.
Author(s): Liang Hong, Shillpa Naavaal, Sohini Dhar, Siddardha Chandrupatla
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: American Association of Public Health Dentistry (AAPHD)
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Provides an overview of barriers to oral health in rural areas, and discusses strategies to increase access to oral health care and improve rural public health outcomes. Covers topics including dental insurance, service delivery models, oral health workforce, the role of oral health professionals in addressing opioid and tobacco use, and water fluoridation.
Author(s): Liang Hong, Shillpa Naavaal, Sohini Dhar, Siddardha Chandrupatla
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: American Association of Public Health Dentistry (AAPHD)
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Georgia Counties without Primary Care/Core Practitioners Based on 2023-2024 Licensure Renewals and New Licensees
County-level Georgia maps showing counties without any physicians, and without physicians specializing in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN, general surgery, psychiatry, and emergency medicine. Features statistics on numbers of these physicians with breakdowns by county.
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce
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County-level Georgia maps showing counties without any physicians, and without physicians specializing in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN, general surgery, psychiatry, and emergency medicine. Features statistics on numbers of these physicians with breakdowns by county.
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce
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Georgia Physician Workforce Report: Based on 2023-2024 Licensure Renewal Data and New Licensees, Primary Care and Core Specialties
Measures and tracks trends in physician demographics, supply, and distribution, using data from January 2023 to December 2024. Features statistics for all Georgia physicians and those specializing in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN, general surgery, psychiatry, and emergency medicine, and maps showing counties with no physicians in these specialties as of 2024.
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce
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Measures and tracks trends in physician demographics, supply, and distribution, using data from January 2023 to December 2024. Features statistics for all Georgia physicians and those specializing in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN, general surgery, psychiatry, and emergency medicine, and maps showing counties with no physicians in these specialties as of 2024.
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce
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