Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Public health
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.
Sponsoring organization: California Department of Health Care Services
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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.
Sponsoring organization: California Department of Health Care Services
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Oklahoma State of the State's Health Report
Reports on the health status of Oklahoma's citizens. Presents interactive datasets with health indicators, counties, and demographic factors on an A-F grade scale. Bases grades on the national average for the selected indicators. Covers mortality, health behaviors, risk factors, and socioeconomic factors.
Sponsoring organization: Oklahoma State Department of Health
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Reports on the health status of Oklahoma's citizens. Presents interactive datasets with health indicators, counties, and demographic factors on an A-F grade scale. Bases grades on the national average for the selected indicators. Covers mortality, health behaviors, risk factors, and socioeconomic factors.
Sponsoring organization: Oklahoma State Department of Health
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Rural Cooperatives Magazine
Magazine focused on the challenges and successes of rural cooperatives across the country. Featured bimonthly issues published by USDA Rural Development. Ceased publication in 2018, but web editions of past issues are available.
Sponsoring organization: USDA Rural Development
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Magazine focused on the challenges and successes of rural cooperatives across the country. Featured bimonthly issues published by USDA Rural Development. Ceased publication in 2018, but web editions of past issues are available.
Sponsoring organization: USDA Rural Development
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Motor Vehicle Safety: Rural Policy Brief
Policy brief focused on motor vehicle deaths and seat belt use in rural areas. Provides an overview of the issue and identifies policy options and case studies related to seat belt use laws and enforcement.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Policy brief focused on motor vehicle deaths and seat belt use in rural areas. Provides an overview of the issue and identifies policy options and case studies related to seat belt use laws and enforcement.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Virginia Health Data Portal
Interactive tool providing health-related data for Virginia. Includes information about cancer, chronic disease, communicable disease, demographics, drinking water, heath behavior, injury and violence, maternal and child health, opioid addiction, sexually transmitted infection, and social determinants of health.
Sponsoring organization: Virginia Department of Health
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Interactive tool providing health-related data for Virginia. Includes information about cancer, chronic disease, communicable disease, demographics, drinking water, heath behavior, injury and violence, maternal and child health, opioid addiction, sexually transmitted infection, and social determinants of health.
Sponsoring organization: Virginia Department of Health
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Healthy Vermonters & Health Status Reports
Includes links to topic-specific reports with statewide population data and scorecards with performance measures. Includes a data explorer for accessing county, local health office district, and hospital service area population data with maps, trends and community profiles.
Sponsoring organization: Vermont Department of Health
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Includes links to topic-specific reports with statewide population data and scorecards with performance measures. Includes a data explorer for accessing county, local health office district, and hospital service area population data with maps, trends and community profiles.
Sponsoring organization: Vermont Department of Health
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Rural Risk Communication Toolkit
Designed to make ready-to-use materials available to local public health departments and clinics during a disaster or emergency, to improve risk communication and help overcome challenges found in rural settings. Contains separate sections on natural, biological, chemical, radiological, and mass vaccination/medication events, and includes information on non-traditional communication methods.
Sponsoring organization: Southeast (Ga.) Health District
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Designed to make ready-to-use materials available to local public health departments and clinics during a disaster or emergency, to improve risk communication and help overcome challenges found in rural settings. Contains separate sections on natural, biological, chemical, radiological, and mass vaccination/medication events, and includes information on non-traditional communication methods.
Sponsoring organization: Southeast (Ga.) Health District
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The Agenda 2020: A Special Report on the Future of Health
A collection of articles, videos, graphics, and more highlighting issues specific to health. Includes stories about rural healthcare facilities, profiles of innovative rural programs, and examples of rural health successes and challenges. Examines rural healthcare in relation to today's political climate, hoping to glean lessons that are broadly applicable throughout the rest of the U.S.
Sponsoring organizations: Politico, United Health Group
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A collection of articles, videos, graphics, and more highlighting issues specific to health. Includes stories about rural healthcare facilities, profiles of innovative rural programs, and examples of rural health successes and challenges. Examines rural healthcare in relation to today's political climate, hoping to glean lessons that are broadly applicable throughout the rest of the U.S.
Sponsoring organizations: Politico, United Health Group
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CDC Rural Health
Provides an overview of rural health concerns, access to CDC-produced reports highlighting rural health issues, and examples of resources and successful approaches to improve health in rural communities. Topics addressed include a range of public health and population health concerns.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Provides an overview of rural health concerns, access to CDC-produced reports highlighting rural health issues, and examples of resources and successful approaches to improve health in rural communities. Topics addressed include a range of public health and population health concerns.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Health Extension Toolkit
Intended for a wide audience and designed as a tool for states to use as they collaborate to improve the quality of primary care practices as well as community health, using a model based on the agricultural Cooperative Extension Service. Includes chapters on engagement, the Health Extension model, primary care, population health, and sustainability, and features profiles on lead states Pennsylvania, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Oklahoma.
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Intended for a wide audience and designed as a tool for states to use as they collaborate to improve the quality of primary care practices as well as community health, using a model based on the agricultural Cooperative Extension Service. Includes chapters on engagement, the Health Extension model, primary care, population health, and sustainability, and features profiles on lead states Pennsylvania, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Oklahoma.
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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