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Resources by Topic: Statistics and data

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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Health Careers Opportunity Program: Academic Years 2015-2020
Describes activities of the Health Resources & Services Administration's Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP), in providing grants to educational institutions to create health professions pipeline programs for people from economically and/or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds. Features U.S. maps showing locations of 2015-2020 HCOP awardees and HCOP training sites by primary care setting and underserved/rural status, and statistics on HCOP participants, including percentage with rural backgrounds.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
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Missouri Drug Overdose Dashboard
Provides county-level information on fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses in Missouri. Allows user to select information by drug type, year, and metric: death count or death rate per 100 residents.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
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Impacts of COVID on Rural Minnesota
Provides visual information about COVID-19 impacts on rural Minnesota in terms of total cases, access to healthcare, and impacts on the economy. Allows user to choose date range and geographic area such as entirely rural, town/rural mix, urban/town/rural mix, or entirely urban.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Minnesota Department of Health
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AHEAD: America's HIV Epidemic Analysis Dashboard
Presents state- and county-level HIV data of Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) priority areas and select rural counties in the South with high HIV transmission. Provides public health data, including 6 HIV indicators by geographic location: incidence, status, diagnosis, medical care, viral suppression, and PrEP coverage.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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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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America After 3PM Interactive Data Dashboard
Provides information on afterschool programs such as demand, health benefits, and opportunities they offer to participants, based on data from the America After 3PM 2020 survey. View data by state and Black or Latinx community using the drop down menu in the upper left of the page. Also provides a special report on afterschool and summer program demand in rural areas.
Additional links: Rural Special Report
Type: Website
Sponsoring organizations: Afterschool Alliance, America After 3PM
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The Ohio Medicaid Assessment Survey Dashboard
An interactive tool that shows tables, plots, and maps of the healthcare landscape in Ohio based on data from the Ohio Medicaid Assessment Survey which focuses on both Medicaid and non-Medicaid populations. Customizes information according to population, age range, income, county, year of data, and health indicators, including health insurance status, chronic diseases, health behaviors, access to care, unmet healthcare needs, and economic distress.
Type: Tool
Sponsoring organization: Ohio Medicaid Assessment Survey
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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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Mapping The Mental Health Of Our Communities
A map tool that presents statistics on mental health risks on a state or county level, based on 2020 and 2021 mental health screening data from MHAScreening.org. Includes data on depression, suicidal ideation, PTSD, trauma, and psychosis.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Mental Health America
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