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1401. Mental Health Care: Access Challenges for Covered Consumers and Relevant Federal Efforts - Resources
Date: Mar 2022

Explores the experiences of consumers with health insurance coverage in accessing timely and appropriate mental healthcare. Describes challenges accessing mental health services, including workforce shortages and broadband availability in rural areas. Identifies ongoing and planned federal efforts to address these challenges.

...Access · Behavioral health workforce · Health workforce supply and demand · Healthcare facilities · Mental health · Policy · Telehealth...

1402. 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...

1403. Coronavirus Pandemic Highlights Critical Gaps in Rural Internet Access for Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers: A Call for Partnership with Medical Libraries - Resources
Date: Oct 2020

Highlights the challenges of reaching migrant and seasonal farmworkers with public health information during the COVID-19 pandemic. Discuses migrants' lack of broadband Internet as an inhibitor to migrants' ability to access both healthcare and public health information.

...Association, 108(4), 651-655 10/2020 Agricultural health and safety · Broadband · COVID-19 · Migrants · Public health · Telehealth...

1404. Comparing Three Ways to Offer a Weight Management Program to Patients Living in Rural Areas: The RE-POWER Study - Resources
Date: 2021

Presents the results of a study in 36 rural primary care practices, including Rural Health Clinics and Federally Qualified Health Clinics, comparing Medicare Fee for Service behavioral therapy for obesity delivered to individual clients in clinics with an in-clinic group visit delivered by clinical providers; and phone-based group visits delivered by a centralized provider. Participants included 1,407 adults from rural areas over a 24 month period with the goal to identify the most effective therapy for rural settings.

...Research Institute Federally Qualified Health Centers · Medicare · Obesity and weight control · Rural Health Clinics · Telehealth...

1405. Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health: Addressing Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders with Chronic Physical Illnesses - Resources
Date: Aug 2026

Report details the way physical and behavioral healthcare integration can support patients with co-occurring behavioral health disorders and chronic physical issues. Discusses the different levels of care integration, evidence-based approaches, and established models for care integration in different settings. Highlights a rural clinic-based telepsychiatry model in South Carolina.

...health workforce · Primary care · Specialty care · Telehealth · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · South Carolina...

1406. Medicaid Coverage of Medications to Reverse Opioid Overdose and Treat Alcohol and Opioid Use Disorders - Resources
Date: Jan 2024

Report discusses access to medications for treating alcohol use disorder (AUD) and opioid use disorder (OUD) via Medicaid. Highlights policies and regulations that effect access and details Medicaid coverage in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Features a discussion about rural access.

...drug misuse · Statistics and data · Telehealth · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · State-by-state...

1407. Health Information Technology: HHS is Taking Steps to Develop a National Strategy - Resources
Date: May 2005

Overview of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services efforts to develop a national health information technology (IT) strategy. Includes some information on rural health IT activities.

...information on rural health IT activities. 05/2005 Government Accountability Office Health information technology · Policy · Telehealth...

1408. Tailoring Crisis Response and Pre-arrest Diversion Models for Rural Communities - Resources
Date: Jun 2019

Outlines a guide for rural communities to develop crisis response and pre-arrest diversion programs for people with mental health or substance use disorders. Discusses the use of technology to connect law enforcement with behavioral health programs, as well as building off of current programs to address the specific needs of the community.

...Population health · Public health · Substance use and misuse · Technology for health and human services · Telehealth...

1409. Dual Barriers: Examining Digital Access and Travel Burdens to Hospital Maternity Care Access in the United States, 2020 - Resources
Date: Aug 2023

Analyzes the relationship between drive time to hospital maternity units and access to digital/telehealth care in mitigating travel burden. Utilizes 2020 American Hospital Association Annual Survey data with information broken down by rural versus urban location, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and broadband and digital device access.

...prenatal care · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Technology for health and human services · Telehealth...

1410. Use of Telemedicine and Quality of Care Among Medicare Enrollees With Serious Mental Illness - Resources
Date: Oct 2023

Examines telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic among Medicare beneficiaries with mental illness. Analyzes levels of telemental use by mental health practices who saw patients with schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder the year before the COVID-19 pandemic and during the first pandemic year. Discusses patient outcomes and quality of care as correlated with telemental use, with data broken down according to practice characteristics and patient demographics, including rurality.

...quality · Mental health · Mental health conditions · Rural-urban differences · Specialty care · Statistics and data · Telehealth...