Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Rural-urban differences
Predoctoral Training in General, Pediatric, and Public Health Dentistry and Dental Hygiene Program: Academic Years 2015-2020
Describes activities of the Predoctoral Training in General, Pediatric, and Public Health Dentistry and Dental Hygiene (PD) program as it enhances dental workforce education and training to prepare predoctoral dental students, dental hygiene students, and dental hygienists to meet the needs of vulnerable, underserved, or rural communities. Features statistics including PD training site settings and characteristics, with breakdowns by percentage in rural locations.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
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Describes activities of the Predoctoral Training in General, Pediatric, and Public Health Dentistry and Dental Hygiene (PD) program as it enhances dental workforce education and training to prepare predoctoral dental students, dental hygiene students, and dental hygienists to meet the needs of vulnerable, underserved, or rural communities. Features statistics including PD training site settings and characteristics, with breakdowns by percentage in rural locations.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
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Dental Residencies in Graduate Medical Education Programs: Academic Years 2015-2020
Describes activities of the Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education Program (CHGME) and the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program (THCGME), in providing federal funds to maintain and expand graduate medical education, including dental residencies in medically underserved areas. Features statistics including CHGME and THCGME program characteristics with breakdowns by percentage of awardees with disadvantaged or rural backgrounds.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
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Describes activities of the Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education Program (CHGME) and the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program (THCGME), in providing federal funds to maintain and expand graduate medical education, including dental residencies in medically underserved areas. Features statistics including CHGME and THCGME program characteristics with breakdowns by percentage of awardees with disadvantaged or rural backgrounds.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
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A Rural Capacity Map
Interactive maps displaying data to illustrate the variability across the country in community capacity to apply for funding, fulfill reporting requirements, and design, build, and maintain infrastructure projects. Variables include local government staffing, community education and engagement, and socioeconomic trends. Includes maps showing locations with high risk of wildfires or floods and low capacity.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Headwaters Economics
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Interactive maps displaying data to illustrate the variability across the country in community capacity to apply for funding, fulfill reporting requirements, and design, build, and maintain infrastructure projects. Variables include local government staffing, community education and engagement, and socioeconomic trends. Includes maps showing locations with high risk of wildfires or floods and low capacity.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Headwaters Economics
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Rural Employment and Unemployment
Explores employment trends from 2007 to 2022 based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Includes charts that present information according to metro versus nonmetro, age, and race/ethnicity.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
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Explores employment trends from 2007 to 2022 based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Includes charts that present information according to metro versus nonmetro, age, and race/ethnicity.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
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Indiana Physician Workforce Dashboards
Presents information on the physician workforce in Indiana, including geographic supply trends, demographics, education, and practice and specialty. Provides population to provider ratios broken down by county and metro versus nonmetro.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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Presents information on the physician workforce in Indiana, including geographic supply trends, demographics, education, and practice and specialty. Provides population to provider ratios broken down by county and metro versus nonmetro.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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Virginia Department of Health Data Commons
Tool providing opportunities to explore current data insights in Virginia regions, communities, or neighborhoods. Features the Virginia State Office of Rural Health's seven priority metrics, to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the overall health and well-being of Virginia's rural communities.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Virginia Department of Health
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Tool providing opportunities to explore current data insights in Virginia regions, communities, or neighborhoods. Features the Virginia State Office of Rural Health's seven priority metrics, to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the overall health and well-being of Virginia's rural communities.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Virginia Department of Health
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The Arizona Health Workforce Profile Report
Maps and bar charts depicting health workforce data from 2019 and 2021 for physicians, nurses, psychologists, substance abuse counselors, and other professions, presented in various geography groupings such as county, rurality, tribal areas, and more.
Additional links: Methodology
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Arizona Center for Rural Health
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Maps and bar charts depicting health workforce data from 2019 and 2021 for physicians, nurses, psychologists, substance abuse counselors, and other professions, presented in various geography groupings such as county, rurality, tribal areas, and more.
Additional links: Methodology
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Arizona Center for Rural Health
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National Center for Health Workforce Analysis (NCHWA) Workforce Projections
Data tool offering information on projected supply and demand of healthcare workers through 2030, representing supply and demand trends from 2016-2030, change in demand, cumulative change over time, and projected percent of adequacy. Breaks down data for allied health, behavioral health, long-term care, oral health, primary care, and women's health, with rural data available for primary care and women's health.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organizations: Health Resources and Services Administration, National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
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Data tool offering information on projected supply and demand of healthcare workers through 2030, representing supply and demand trends from 2016-2030, change in demand, cumulative change over time, and projected percent of adequacy. Breaks down data for allied health, behavioral health, long-term care, oral health, primary care, and women's health, with rural data available for primary care and women's health.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organizations: Health Resources and Services Administration, National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
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Severe Maternal Morbidity (SMM) Among In-Hospital Deliveries
Dashboard showing severe maternal morbidity rates related to in-hospital deliveries. Offers comparisons between states. See data for large metropolitan, nonmetropolitan, and small/medium metropolitan areas with national and state-level data for 2010-2021 in the Trend Graph and Trend Table views using the outcome and characteristics filter.
Type: Chart/Graph
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Dashboard showing severe maternal morbidity rates related to in-hospital deliveries. Offers comparisons between states. See data for large metropolitan, nonmetropolitan, and small/medium metropolitan areas with national and state-level data for 2010-2021 in the Trend Graph and Trend Table views using the outcome and characteristics filter.
Type: Chart/Graph
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Cardiovascular & Cancer Rates for the Rural Delta Region
Interactive mapping tool showing 13 health measures for people in Delta Region counties/parishes. Allows users to compare rates by county, rural or urban status, to peer counties, to the national average, to national quartiles, by Health Resources and Services Administration regions, and by states.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research Program
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Interactive mapping tool showing 13 health measures for people in Delta Region counties/parishes. Allows users to compare rates by county, rural or urban status, to peer counties, to the national average, to national quartiles, by Health Resources and Services Administration regions, and by states.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research Program
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