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State of the Behavioral Health Workforce, 2024
Offers demographic and occupational data on the behavioral health workforce including current and projected shortages. Data sources include both 2022 and 2023. Offers comparisons of shortages between rural and urban counties. Discusses challenges driving workforce shortages.
Date: 11/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: Health Resources and Services Administration, National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
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State of the U.S. Maternal Health Workforce, 2024
Offers demographic and occupational data on the maternal health workforce. Data sources include various years between 2021 and 2023. Includes current and projected comparisons of the workforce with the female population of childbearing age. Table 7 includes distribution of maternal health physicians compared with the population of women of childbearing age for large metropolitan, medium metropolitan, small metropolitan, micropolitan, and noncore areas in 2022.
Date: 11/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: Health Resources and Services Administration, National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
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Residential Instability, Neighborhood Deprivation, and Outcomes for Children
Examines the effects of residential instability and neighborhood deprivation on children's educational outcomes via an analysis of North Carolina births, lead testing, and standardized testing score data. Includes data on differences in study outcomes based on movement between rural and urban areas.
Author(s): Mercedes A. Bravo, Dominique Zephyr, Marie Lynn Miranda
Citation: BMC Public Health, 24, 3343
Date: 11/2024
Type: Document
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Roadblocks to Reporting: Examining Barriers that Deter Domestic Violence Victim-Survivors from Reporting to Law Enforcement in Rural Communities of Pennsylvania
Explores the lack of reporting from victim-survivors and the barriers they might face when reporting domestic violence and intimate partner violence to law enforcement. Highlights how barriers might differ among rural and urban Pennsylvanians, and how this might impact their ability to access services or resources from local victim service agencies.
Additional links: Executive Summary
Author(s): Emily R. Strohacker
Date: 11/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Center for Rural Pennsylvania
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Characteristics of Older Adults Who Met Federal Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans: United States, 2022
Examines the percentage of adults aged 65 and older who meet weekly exercise guidelines according to age range, race/ethnicity, income, education, health status, metro versus nonmetro location, and U.S. region.
Author(s): Nazik Elgaddal, Ellen A. Kramarow
Date: 11/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Statistics
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State of the Primary Care Workforce, 2024
Offers data on the current state and projected estimates of the future supply of physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants offering primary care. Includes demographics as well as current and projected shortages with comparison and metropolitan and nonmetropolitan projections. Discusses challenges impacting the workforce and the impact of primary care on population health. Includes state by state data on the primary care physician workforce.
Date: 11/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: Health Resources and Services Administration, National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
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Driver Electronic Device Use in 2023
National data on driver use of electronic devices from 2014-2023. Features statistics on percentage of drivers holding cellphones to their ears, speaking with visible headsets, and visibly manipulating handheld devices while driving, with breakdowns including age, gender, race, and urban or rural location. Includes tables listing states banning texting and use of handheld cellphones while driving, as of June 2023.
Date: 11/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2022 Emergency Department Summary Tables
Provides data on ambulatory care emergency department (ED) hospital visits in 2022. Table 1 provides metropolitan/nonmetropolitan ED visit data based on hospital location.
Date: 11/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Statistics
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Chronic Pain and High-Impact Chronic Pain in U.S. Adults, 2023
Analyzes 2023 National Health Interview Survey data to report on chronic pain among adults. Highlights disparities by gender, age, race and ethnicity, and urbanization.
Author(s): Jacqueline W. Lucas, Inderbir Sohi
Date: 11/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Statistics
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Trends in North Carolina's Oral Health Workforce
Provides 2000-2022 data on the oral health workforce in North Carolina. Includes metro versus nonmetro supply of dentists and dental hygienists per 10,000 residents, county-level distribution of dentists added to the workforce, oral healthcare workforce demographics, dentistry and hygienist education programs, and more.
Author(s): Brooke Lombardi, Catherine Moore, Haley Simons, et al.
Citation: North Carolina Medical Journal, 85(6)
Date: 11/2024
Type: Document
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