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1381. Challenges and Strategies to Improve Access to Oral Health Care in Rural America - Resources
Date: 2025

Provides an overview of barriers to oral health in rural areas, and discusses strategies to increase access to oral healthcare and improve rural public health outcomes. Covers topics including dental insurance, service delivery models, oral health workforce, the role of oral health professionals in addressing opioid and tobacco use, and water fluoridation.

...service delivery · Mobile and episodic healthcare delivery · Oral health · Public health · Service delivery models · Telehealth...

1382. Comparative Effectiveness of Buprenorphine Adherence with Telemedicine Versus In-Person for Rural and Urban Patients - Resources
Date: Mar 2025

Compares adherence to buprenorphine for opioid use disorder in telemedicine versus in-person healthcare in rural and urban populations. Utilizes 2017–2022 data from 511 adults and compares 3,302 in-person and 519 telemedicine visits, with breakdowns according to patient characteristics, adherence, gaps in treatment, and rural versus urban location. Discusses changing legislative requirements related to buprenorphine treatment and the potential impact on rural populations.

...Pharmacy and prescription drugs · Prescription drug misuse · Rural-urban differences · Specialty care · Statistics and data · Telehealth...

1383. Future Directions for Rural Population Research: Findings from RPRN's Listening Sessions - Resources
Date: Nov 2024

Summarizes 5 listening sessions with rural development practitioners aiming to identify areas of research need by rural population researchers. Discusses trends in agriculture and food systems, community and economic development, the environment and natural resources, and health, healthcare, and disability services. Offers recommendations related to information sharing, community involvement in research, data gathering, and best practices and evaluation.

...methods and resources · Statistics and data · Stigma · Technology for health and human services · Telehealth · Transportation...

1384. Exploring the Use of Telemedicine to Expand Addiction and Recovery Resources in Great Plains Tribal Communities - Resources
Date: Jan 2026

Explores the use of telemedicine to provide medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) to patients in tribal communities. Explores the barriers and facilitators to implementing telemedicine-based MOUD services across the Great Plains Area of the Indian Health Service.

...Telehealth · Tribal communities · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Iowa · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota...

1385. Teledentistry in Health Centers: Promising Practices for Increasing Access to Oral Health Care - Resources
Date: Jul 2026

Highlights several promising practices using teledentistry to increase oral health access. Explores how five different programs in urban areas, and one in rural South Dakota, are using teledentistry via health centers to address workforce shortages and expand oral health access.

...Federally Qualified Health Centers · Oral health · Telehealth · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · South Dakota...

1386. How States Can Expand Health Care Access in Rural Communities - Resources
Date: Feb 2022

Discusses policy options states could use to increase access to care and the supply of healthcare providers in rural areas. Covers financial assistance programs for medical and dental education; malpractice reform; scope of practice changes for advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants, and dental health aide therapists; telemedicine parity; and mobile clinics.

...Nurse practitioners and other advanced practice registered nurses · Physician assistants · Policy · Scope of practice · Telehealth...

1387. Challenges and Solutions for Disaster Behavioral Health in Rural and Remote Communities - Resources
Date: Apr 2023

Describes the scope and diversity of rural and remote populations across the nation, highlighting sources of strength and struggle, including the effects of stigma, for rural Americans and rural healthcare providers. Explores potential approaches to disaster behavioral health in rural and remote areas, including governmental and policy approaches, community-based approaches, and telemedicine.

...workforce supply and demand · Illicit drug use · Mental health · Mental health conditions · Policy · Stigma · Telehealth...

1388. Patterns of Digital Health Access and Use among US Adults: A Latent Class Analysis - Resources
Date: Jul 2024

Evaluates patterns of access and use of digital technology for health purposes via a latent class analysis of 2017-2020 Health Information National Trends Survey data. See Table 3 for data on people dwelling in metropolitan, nonmetropolitan urban, and rural areas.

...information technology · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Technology for health and human services · Telehealth...

1389. Addressing Workforce Challenges Across the Behavioral Health Continuum of Care: Proceedings of a Workshop - Resources
Date: 2025

Summary of presentations and discussions from a July 2024 public workshop to address workforce needs and challenges related to behavioral healthcare. Includes discussions of telepsychiatry collaborative care to improve rural access and capacity, and recruiting and retaining Native American healthcare providers in behavioral health settings.

...Health workforce supply and demand · Policy · Recruitment and retention of health professionals · Telehealth · Tribal communities...

1390. Strategies for Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Rural Health System in New York State - Resources
Date: Jun 2021

Describes the challenges of COVID-19 encountered by Bassett Healthcare Network (BHN), a network of 5 hospitals and 24 clinics located in rural upstate New York covering the healthcare needs of 5 counties. Presents four strategies in response to these challenges: expand the capacity of intensive-care; retrain and reposition employees into new roles; adopt a system providing rapid access to care and follow-up; and coordinate communication and decision-making with network administrators, employees, and other healthcare professionals.

...department and urgent care services · Health systems · Infectious diseases · Statistics and data · Telehealth · New York...