Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Population health
How to Conduct a Rapid Community Assessment: A Guide to Understanding Your Community's Needs Regarding COVID-19 Vaccines
Guide to help healthcare providers and other organizations understand the concerns of their communities related to COVID-19 vaccination and identify strategies to increase vaccination confidence. Includes information on addressing vaccine confidence in rural and tribal communities.
Additional links: Addendum: Considerations for Conducting Rapid Community Assessment in Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Communities, Addendum: Considerations for Conducting Rapid Community Assessment in Tribal Communities
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
view details
Guide to help healthcare providers and other organizations understand the concerns of their communities related to COVID-19 vaccination and identify strategies to increase vaccination confidence. Includes information on addressing vaccine confidence in rural and tribal communities.
Additional links: Addendum: Considerations for Conducting Rapid Community Assessment in Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Communities, Addendum: Considerations for Conducting Rapid Community Assessment in Tribal Communities
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
view details
Rural-Urban Disparities in Cancer
Provides data and maps reflecting cancer incidence and mortality, comparing rural, nonmetro urban, and metro counties. Explores urban and rural disparities regarding cancer type, access to healthcare for rural residents, risk factors for cancer incidence, and preventative care.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Cancer Institute
view details
Provides data and maps reflecting cancer incidence and mortality, comparing rural, nonmetro urban, and metro counties. Explores urban and rural disparities regarding cancer type, access to healthcare for rural residents, risk factors for cancer incidence, and preventative care.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Cancer Institute
view details
Ohio Rural Health Association Newsletter
Monthly newsletter focused on the work of the Ohio Rural Health Association and its committees. Includes news and events related to rural health in Ohio.
Type: Journal/Newsletter
Sponsoring organization: Ohio Rural Health Association
view details
Monthly newsletter focused on the work of the Ohio Rural Health Association and its committees. Includes news and events related to rural health in Ohio.
Type: Journal/Newsletter
Sponsoring organization: Ohio Rural Health Association
view details
County Data Maps from CEARH
Provides maps of the contiguous U.S. that represent data related to healthcare access at the county level, healthcare industry characteristics in rural counties, socio-demographic characteristics, and rural health characteristics. Map indicators can be adjusted to reflect specific types of data.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Center for Economic Analysis of Rural Health
view details
Provides maps of the contiguous U.S. that represent data related to healthcare access at the county level, healthcare industry characteristics in rural counties, socio-demographic characteristics, and rural health characteristics. Map indicators can be adjusted to reflect specific types of data.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Center for Economic Analysis of Rural Health
view details
Farmworkers' Rights Under State Employment Laws: An Interactive Map
Interactive map highlights the laws that apply to agricultural workers by state. Details the legal protections, minimum wage, and overtime laws for migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc.
view details
Interactive map highlights the laws that apply to agricultural workers by state. Details the legal protections, minimum wage, and overtime laws for migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc.
view details
Health Equity Toolkit for Rural and Remote Communities
Educational toolkit outlining health equity and steps that rural and remote public health organizations can take to improve health equity. Discusses rural challenges impacting health equity. Offers a curriculum to support staff discussion sessions, procedures for conducting a community health survey, and a session evaluation tool. Email address required to access toolkit documents.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: OMNI Institute, Pitkin County Public Health, Silver Thread Public Health District
view details
Educational toolkit outlining health equity and steps that rural and remote public health organizations can take to improve health equity. Discusses rural challenges impacting health equity. Offers a curriculum to support staff discussion sessions, procedures for conducting a community health survey, and a session evaluation tool. Email address required to access toolkit documents.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: OMNI Institute, Pitkin County Public Health, Silver Thread Public Health District
view details
Learning Module: Rural and Small Town Transportation
Describes transportation issues in rural America, addressing transportation-related impacts on health, safety, poverty, and economic opportunity. Offers resources for planning, policy, and community partnerships, with links to sample programs and documents.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Shared-Use Mobility Center
view details
Describes transportation issues in rural America, addressing transportation-related impacts on health, safety, poverty, and economic opportunity. Offers resources for planning, policy, and community partnerships, with links to sample programs and documents.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Shared-Use Mobility Center
view details
Mental Health America Warmlines
Presents a list of mental health warmlines, or non-emergency support lines, available throughout the country. Highlights the number for the state, or region within the state, and the hours of operation.
Type: Hotline
Sponsoring organization: Mental Health America
view details
Presents a list of mental health warmlines, or non-emergency support lines, available throughout the country. Highlights the number for the state, or region within the state, and the hours of operation.
Type: Hotline
Sponsoring organization: Mental Health America
view details
Rural Early Childhood Health Promotion Toolkit
Resources and best practices to help rural communities develop early childhood health promotion programs. Identifies program models and examples, and discusses implementation, evaluation, sustainability, and dissemination of program results.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
view details
Resources and best practices to help rural communities develop early childhood health promotion programs. Identifies program models and examples, and discusses implementation, evaluation, sustainability, and dissemination of program results.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
view details
Vaccine Central
Resources to support health departments, community-based organizations, and others with vaccine efforts among refugee, immigrant, and migrant communities.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants
view details
Resources to support health departments, community-based organizations, and others with vaccine efforts among refugee, immigrant, and migrant communities.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants
view details