Rural Health
Resources by Type: Document
Dialysis Availability in Rural America
Explores the availability of dialysis services in rural America including the prevalence of dialysis use across urban and rural counties, travel distance for services, and dialysis quality outcomes.
Additional links: Fact Sheet
Author(s): Amy Martin, Kevin J. Bennett, Nathan Hale, Janice C. Probst
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural and Minority Health Research Center (formerly the South Carolina Rural Health Research Center)
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Explores the availability of dialysis services in rural America including the prevalence of dialysis use across urban and rural counties, travel distance for services, and dialysis quality outcomes.
Additional links: Fact Sheet
Author(s): Amy Martin, Kevin J. Bennett, Nathan Hale, Janice C. Probst
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural and Minority Health Research Center (formerly the South Carolina Rural Health Research Center)
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Rural Pharmacy Closures: Implications for Rural Communities
Documents the closure of local retail pharmacies in which the pharmacist was the community's only clinical provider at the time the pharmacy closed. Describes the characteristics of each community and retail pharmacy in question.
Author(s): Kelli Todd, Fred Ullrich, Keith Mueller
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
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Documents the closure of local retail pharmacies in which the pharmacist was the community's only clinical provider at the time the pharmacy closed. Describes the characteristics of each community and retail pharmacy in question.
Author(s): Kelli Todd, Fred Ullrich, Keith Mueller
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
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HIV/AIDS in Rural America: Prevalence and Service Availability
Examines the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in rural counties across 28 states in 2008 and the rural-versus-urban distribution of Ryan White providers.
Additional links: Fact Sheet
Author(s): Medha Vyavaharkar, Saundra Glover, Deshia Leonhirth, Janice Probst
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural and Minority Health Research Center (formerly the South Carolina Rural Health Research Center)
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Examines the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in rural counties across 28 states in 2008 and the rural-versus-urban distribution of Ryan White providers.
Additional links: Fact Sheet
Author(s): Medha Vyavaharkar, Saundra Glover, Deshia Leonhirth, Janice Probst
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural and Minority Health Research Center (formerly the South Carolina Rural Health Research Center)
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Emergency Transfers of the Elderly from Nursing Facilities to Critical Access Hospitals: Opportunities for Improving Patient Safety and Quality
Examines the evidence and best practices to improve the nursing facility-to-hospital transition of care. Provides tools to improve communication between patients, nursing facilities, and hospitals. Includes recommendations for the role of state Flex Programs in the transition of care process.
Author(s): Karen B. Pearson, Andrew F. Coburn
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
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Examines the evidence and best practices to improve the nursing facility-to-hospital transition of care. Provides tools to improve communication between patients, nursing facilities, and hospitals. Includes recommendations for the role of state Flex Programs in the transition of care process.
Author(s): Karen B. Pearson, Andrew F. Coburn
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
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Adherence to a Mediterranean Diet in a Rural Appalachian Food Desert
Describes predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors that affect eating a Mediterranean diet in a rural Appalachian food desert in Kentucky. Includes study participant characteristics, such as age, education, and household income.
Author(s): Frances Hardin-Fanning
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 13(1), 2293
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
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Describes predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors that affect eating a Mediterranean diet in a rural Appalachian food desert in Kentucky. Includes study participant characteristics, such as age, education, and household income.
Author(s): Frances Hardin-Fanning
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 13(1), 2293
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
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Internet Connectivity among Rural Alabama Veterans: Baseline Findings from the Alabama Veterans Rural Health Initiative Project
Examines rural veterans' use of the internet to access Veterans Affairs programs, by interviewing veterans who had not accessed or had never enrolled in services in rural Alabama. Focuses on disparities based on geographic, social/economic, and racial/ethnic factors.
Author(s): Rebecca Allen, Rosanna Guadagno, Patricia Parmelee, et al.
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 13(1), 2138
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
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Examines rural veterans' use of the internet to access Veterans Affairs programs, by interviewing veterans who had not accessed or had never enrolled in services in rural Alabama. Focuses on disparities based on geographic, social/economic, and racial/ethnic factors.
Author(s): Rebecca Allen, Rosanna Guadagno, Patricia Parmelee, et al.
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 13(1), 2138
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
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Mental Health and Mental Health Care in Rural America: The Hope of Redesigned Primary Care
Briefly discusses mental health treatment disparities between rural and nonrural veterans.
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Veterans Health Administration's Office of Rural Health
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Briefly discusses mental health treatment disparities between rural and nonrural veterans.
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Veterans Health Administration's Office of Rural Health
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Rural Border Health Chartbook
Examines potential geographic and ethnic disparities among U.S.-Mexico border residents and describes select indicators related to access to care, women's preventive services, oral health, infectious and communicable diseases, and mental health that have been identified as disparities.
Additional links: Fact Sheet
Author(s): Amy Brock Martin, Myriam E. Torres, Medha Vyavaharkar, et al.
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural and Minority Health Research Center (formerly the South Carolina Rural Health Research Center)
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Examines potential geographic and ethnic disparities among U.S.-Mexico border residents and describes select indicators related to access to care, women's preventive services, oral health, infectious and communicable diseases, and mental health that have been identified as disparities.
Additional links: Fact Sheet
Author(s): Amy Brock Martin, Myriam E. Torres, Medha Vyavaharkar, et al.
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural and Minority Health Research Center (formerly the South Carolina Rural Health Research Center)
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Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis
Discusses cancer care in the United States, with a focus on patient-centered care, the workforce available to care for cancer patients, quality and improvement measures, health information technology, and access and affordability. Includes information specific to rural areas.
Additional links: Read Online
Date: 2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Institute of Medicine
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Discusses cancer care in the United States, with a focus on patient-centered care, the workforce available to care for cancer patients, quality and improvement measures, health information technology, and access and affordability. Includes information specific to rural areas.
Additional links: Read Online
Date: 2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Institute of Medicine
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Rural Community–Academic Partnership Model for Community Engagement and Partnered Research
Describes a bidirectional community-academic partnership between Eastern Shore Area Health Education Center (ESAHEC) and the University of Maryland School of Medicine's (UMSOM) Office of Policy and Planning (OPP) to address the health and social issues on the rural Eastern shore of Maryland. Provides an overview of the partnership's design to address rural health needs by developing and supporting partnered research, clinical trials education and recruitment, bioethics education, and public trust in research.
Author(s): Claudia R. Baquet, Jeanne L. Bromwell, Margruetta B. Hall, Jacob F. Frego
Citation: Progress in Community Health Partnerships, 7(3), 281-290
Date: 2013
Type: Document
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Describes a bidirectional community-academic partnership between Eastern Shore Area Health Education Center (ESAHEC) and the University of Maryland School of Medicine's (UMSOM) Office of Policy and Planning (OPP) to address the health and social issues on the rural Eastern shore of Maryland. Provides an overview of the partnership's design to address rural health needs by developing and supporting partnered research, clinical trials education and recruitment, bioethics education, and public trust in research.
Author(s): Claudia R. Baquet, Jeanne L. Bromwell, Margruetta B. Hall, Jacob F. Frego
Citation: Progress in Community Health Partnerships, 7(3), 281-290
Date: 2013
Type: Document
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