Rural Health
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Improving Safety on Rural Local and Tribal Roads: Safety Toolkit
Provides a step-by-step process to assist local agency and tribal staff in completing traffic safety analyses, identify safety issues, countermeasures to address them, and an implementation process.
Additional links: Network Safety Analysis - User Guide #2, Site Safety Analysis - User Guide #1
Date: 08/2014
Sponsoring organization: Federal Highway Administration
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Provides a step-by-step process to assist local agency and tribal staff in completing traffic safety analyses, identify safety issues, countermeasures to address them, and an implementation process.
Additional links: Network Safety Analysis - User Guide #2, Site Safety Analysis - User Guide #1
Date: 08/2014
Sponsoring organization: Federal Highway Administration
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Exploration of Factors Influencing Initiation and Continuation of Breastfeeding among Hispanic Women Living in Rural Settings: A Multi-Methods Study
Explores the factors that influence breastfeeding among Hispanic women living in rural settings with the objective of developing an educational breastfeeding program to meet the needs of rural Hispanic women.
Author(s): Ashish Joshi, Kate Trout, Trina Aguirre, Susan Wilhelm
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 14(3), 2955
Date: 08/2014
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Explores the factors that influence breastfeeding among Hispanic women living in rural settings with the objective of developing an educational breastfeeding program to meet the needs of rural Hispanic women.
Author(s): Ashish Joshi, Kate Trout, Trina Aguirre, Susan Wilhelm
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 14(3), 2955
Date: 08/2014
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Differences in Media Access and Use Between Rural Native American and White Children
Compares media access between Native American children and White children from rural areas in Michigan to determine the most effective way of disseminating public health initiatives to reach Native children and reduce health disparities.
Author(s): Yulin Hswen, John A. Naslund, David S. Bickham
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 14(3), 2922
Date: 08/2014
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Compares media access between Native American children and White children from rural areas in Michigan to determine the most effective way of disseminating public health initiatives to reach Native children and reduce health disparities.
Author(s): Yulin Hswen, John A. Naslund, David S. Bickham
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 14(3), 2922
Date: 08/2014
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North Carolina Rural Health Action Plan: A Report of the NCIOM Task Force on Rural Health
Contains the North Carolina rural health action plan to improve rural health outcomes and identifies six key strategies at the state and local levels to address rural health disparities. See also: 2018 Update on Priority Strategies.
Date: 08/2014
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Institute of Medicine
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Contains the North Carolina rural health action plan to improve rural health outcomes and identifies six key strategies at the state and local levels to address rural health disparities. See also: 2018 Update on Priority Strategies.
Date: 08/2014
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Institute of Medicine
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Effect of Tele-Emergency Services on Recruitment and Retention of US Rural Physicians
Analyzes the effects of telemedicine services on recruitment and retention of physicians to rural healthcare facilities.
Author(s): Andrew Potter, Keith Mueller, Clint MacKinney, Marcia Ward
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 14(3), 2787
Date: 08/2014
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Analyzes the effects of telemedicine services on recruitment and retention of physicians to rural healthcare facilities.
Author(s): Andrew Potter, Keith Mueller, Clint MacKinney, Marcia Ward
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 14(3), 2787
Date: 08/2014
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Framing Rural Health Value Webinar Series: Summary Report
Provides a summary of the Framing Rural Health Value Webinar Series, held during May through August, 2014. Series provided aid to the state Medical Rural Hospital Flex Programs in understanding the changing landscape of rural healthcare and program design for Fiscal Year 2015. Includes case studies, recommended interventions, and outcomes.
Date: 08/2014
Sponsoring organizations: National Rural Health Resource Center, Technical Assistance and Services Center
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Provides a summary of the Framing Rural Health Value Webinar Series, held during May through August, 2014. Series provided aid to the state Medical Rural Hospital Flex Programs in understanding the changing landscape of rural healthcare and program design for Fiscal Year 2015. Includes case studies, recommended interventions, and outcomes.
Date: 08/2014
Sponsoring organizations: National Rural Health Resource Center, Technical Assistance and Services Center
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Access to Rural Health Care – A Literature Review and New Synthesis
Reviews relevant literature to help clarify the meaning of access in the context of rural healthcare. Focuses on four dimensions of access including people, place, provider, and payment, and notes that changes in one dimension affects the others. Recommends that policymakers address all dimensions of access throughout the policymaking process to ensure best outcomes.
Author(s): A. Clinton MacKinney, Andrew Coburn, Jennifer Lundblad, et al.
Date: 08/2014
Sponsoring organization: Rural Policy Research Institute Rural Health Panel
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Reviews relevant literature to help clarify the meaning of access in the context of rural healthcare. Focuses on four dimensions of access including people, place, provider, and payment, and notes that changes in one dimension affects the others. Recommends that policymakers address all dimensions of access throughout the policymaking process to ensure best outcomes.
Author(s): A. Clinton MacKinney, Andrew Coburn, Jennifer Lundblad, et al.
Date: 08/2014
Sponsoring organization: Rural Policy Research Institute Rural Health Panel
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HoMBRes - Hombres Manteniendo Bienestar y Relaciones Saludables (Men Maintaining Wellness and Healthy Relationships)
A case study of a sexual risk reduction intervention in rural North Carolina designed to reduce HIV and STD infection among non-English speaking Latino men in rural central North Carolina. Provides information about the program objectives, barriers encountered, resources for delivering the program, partnerships, financing, and the results of the intervention. Describes the lay health officers called navegantes or navigators instrumental in carrying out the program.
Author(s): Jay Kassirer, Sharon Boddy, Heather Bowen Ray
Date: 07/2014
Sponsoring organization: Public Health Agency of Canada - Tools of Change
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A case study of a sexual risk reduction intervention in rural North Carolina designed to reduce HIV and STD infection among non-English speaking Latino men in rural central North Carolina. Provides information about the program objectives, barriers encountered, resources for delivering the program, partnerships, financing, and the results of the intervention. Describes the lay health officers called navegantes or navigators instrumental in carrying out the program.
Author(s): Jay Kassirer, Sharon Boddy, Heather Bowen Ray
Date: 07/2014
Sponsoring organization: Public Health Agency of Canada - Tools of Change
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Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Diabetes Self-Management Research with Mexican Americans in Starr County, Texas
Provides an overview of research on diabetes self-management education interventions focused on rural Mexican Americans along the Texas-Mexico border. Reports on lessons learned from pilot testing, focus group interviews, and randomized controlled trials. Addresses the impact of culture, behavioral change motivators, and more.
Author(s): Sharon A. Brown, Joseph H. Blades, Craig L. Hanis
Citation: Diabetes Educator, 40(4), 476-487
Date: 07/2014
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Provides an overview of research on diabetes self-management education interventions focused on rural Mexican Americans along the Texas-Mexico border. Reports on lessons learned from pilot testing, focus group interviews, and randomized controlled trials. Addresses the impact of culture, behavioral change motivators, and more.
Author(s): Sharon A. Brown, Joseph H. Blades, Craig L. Hanis
Citation: Diabetes Educator, 40(4), 476-487
Date: 07/2014
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Gender and Age Are Associated with Healthy Food Purchases via Grocery Voucher Redemption
Explores the association of age, gender, education, and income level with purchasing healthy foods using a grocery voucher in rural Appalachian Kentucky, an area considered a food desert with higher rates of chronic disease. Includes data on the purchase of a designated voucher food item by age, sex, education, and income.
Author(s): Frances Hardin-Fanning, Yevgeniya Gokun
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 14(3), 2830
Date: 07/2014
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Explores the association of age, gender, education, and income level with purchasing healthy foods using a grocery voucher in rural Appalachian Kentucky, an area considered a food desert with higher rates of chronic disease. Includes data on the purchase of a designated voucher food item by age, sex, education, and income.
Author(s): Frances Hardin-Fanning, Yevgeniya Gokun
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 14(3), 2830
Date: 07/2014
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