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Relationship Between the Inner Setting of CFIR and the Delivery of the Healthy School Recognized Campus Initiative: A Mixed-Methods Analysis
Examines the influence of inner setting constructs such as organizational culture, implementation climate, and implementation readiness on the delivery of Healthy School Recognized Campus (HSRC) physical activity and nutrition promotion programs in 8 rural East Texas elementary schools. Analyzes survey and interview data of 28 HSRC implementers to identify factors influencing participation and study outcomes.
Author(s): Allyson Schaefers, Lucy Xin, Paula Butler, et al.
Citation: Implementation Science Communications, 5, 96
Date: 09/2024
Type: Document
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Rural Louisiana Programs Create Healthier Schools
Features two Delta States Rural Development Network grantees working to improve children's health in rural Louisiana schools. A high school program focuses on preventing diabetes and an elementary school program offers nutrition and physical activity opportunities to students.
Author(s): Allee Mead
Citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 08/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Districts Try with Limited Success to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism: Selected Findings from the Spring 2024 American School District Panel Survey and Interviews
Discusses the rise of chronic absenteeism in schools in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the various causes, such as mental health, flexibility of remote learning, and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic challenges. Provides interview and survey data from 190 school district leaders and includes information on the percentage of districts experiencing chronic absenteeism and at what level; the characteristics of districts, including region, size, and urbanicity; and district methods of reducing chronic absenteeism.
Author(s): Melissa Kay Diliberti, Lydia R. Rainey, Lisa Chu, Heather L. Schwartz
Date: 08/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: RAND Corporation
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The State of Health in Tennessee: 2024 Annual Report to the 113th Tennessee General Assembly
Assesses the health status of Tennesseans across the four areas of the State Health Plan Framework: A Healthy Start, A Healthy Life, a Healthy Environment, and a Healthy System of Care. Includes a section on social determinants of health and features statistics on various populations and aspects of healthcare, including rural hospital closures.
Additional links: A Healthy Environment: Housing, A Healthy Life: Income and Poverty, A Healthy Start: Poverty & Food Insecurity, A Healthy System of Care: Access
Date: 08/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Tennessee Department of Health
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Texas School Nurse Workforce, 2023
Fact sheet describing the school nurse workforce in Texas. Includes data on frequency of working at multiple campuses, students served per nurse, and job satisfaction among nurses working in metro versus nonmetropolitan counties.
Date: 08/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies, Texas Health and Human Services
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Rural Health in Indiana: Challenges and Strategies
Presentation slides that provide an overview of rural health in Indiana, along with challenges and the strategies to overcome them. Focuses on rural versus urban data on workforce shortages, hospital closures, access to various services, school-based health, and more, with comparative information on the state and national level.
Author(s): Sierra Vaughn
Date: 08/2024
Type: Presentation Slides
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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Reducing Asthma Attacks in Disadvantaged School Children with Asthma: Study Protocol for a Type 2 Hybrid Implementation-Effectiveness Trial (Better Asthma Control for Kids, BACK)
Study protocol describing implementation strategy packages for a regionally-tailored, school-based asthma intervention, Better Asthma Control for Kids (BACK), in order to improve asthma control and reduce geographic and socioeconomic disparities in Colorado. Identifies rurality as a contextual factor for study.
Author(s): Amy G. Huebschmann, Nichole M. Wagner, Melanie Gleason, et al.
Citation: Implementation Science, 19, 60
Date: 08/2024
Type: Document
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Alcohol Use among American Indian Youth in New Mexico: 2021 Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey
Fact sheet on alcohol use and related behaviors among American Indian high school and middle school students in New Mexico in 2021, utilizing New Mexico Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey data. Compares alcohol consumption among American Indian students who attend schools located on tribal lands versus those who do not.
Date: 08/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Albuquerque Area Southwest Tribal Epidemiology Center
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Adolescent Pregnancy: Federal Prevention Programs
Provides an overview of four federally funded programs that focus on adolescent pregnancy prevention: the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) program, the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), the Title V Sexual Risk Avoidance Education program, and the General Departmental (GD) Sexual Risk Avoidance Education program. Features a breakdown of each program and an evaluation of their activities and efficacy. Discusses which programs operate in rural areas.
Date: 08/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Congressional Research Service
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The 2021–2022 Study of Family and Staff Experiences in American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start FACES Programs: Fall 2021 Data Tables and Study Design
Analyzes 18 Region XI programs and reported data from American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Head Start children, parents, and teachers. Provides information on issues such as children's home environments, social-emotional learning skills, disabilities and physical health, and teacher and child characteristics.
Author(s): Myley Laurent, Tatiana Santiago, Katie Gonzalez, et al.
Date: 07/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Administration for Children and Families
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