Website Search Results for: social determinants of health
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Date: Jul 15, 2020
Advance care planning — planning for decision-making in times of medical crisis — has always been intended for all people, all ages, with or without a chronic disease. Clinicians talk about the challenges of these conversations now that COVID-19 has nudged planning from the realm of the theoretical future to current reality. - The Rural Monitor
...Advance Care Planning: New Realities in Times of COVID-19 - The Rural Monitor --- Advance care...
Added: Mar 27, 2024
Learn more about evidence-based strategies and promising approaches being used in rural communities to decrease alcohol and drug-impaired driving and distracted driving, including relevant laws, education campaigns, sobriety checkpoints, and devices such as ignition interlocks.
...Decreasing Impaired and Distracted Driving to Prevent Traffic Accidents - RHIhub Toolkit --- Learn more about evidence...
Date: Apr 17, 2019
Wildfires. Child abuse. Sexual assault. The negative and ongoing effects of these experiences are the reason communities and medical providers are using an approach called trauma-informed care. This article features ways trauma is understood and treated in a rural community, a Wyoming pediatrician's clinic, and for nurses providing assault exams. - The Rural Monitor
...Rising from the Ashes: How Trauma-Informed Care Nurtures Healing in Rural America - The Rural...
Reviewed: Feb 24, 2023
Examines policy, economics, planning challenges, health professional shortage areas, and other issues related to the rural healthcare workforce. These include supply and demand, distribution and characteristics of the workforce, licensure, certification, and scope of practice issues, and policies that can be used to improve the rural healthcare workforce.
...Rural Healthcare Workforce Overview - Rural Health Information Hub --- Examines policy, economics, planning challenges, health professional...
Date: Jul 18, 2023
Accessing Emergency Preparedness and Response Resources for Rural Communities. A webinar from the Rural Health Information Hub.
...Accessing Emergency Preparedness and Response Resources for Rural Communities - RHIhub Webinar --- Accessing Emergency Preparedness and...
Reviewed: Jun 5, 2024
Provides an overview of EMS and trauma services in rural areas. Answers frequently asked questions about funding, equipment, training, recruitment, continuing education, trauma systems, trauma care, and other topics relating to rural EMS.
...Rural Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Trauma Overview - Rural Health Information Hub --- Provides an overview...
Added: Nov 14, 2022
Shares how a rural community in Nebraska responded to an ethanol plant disaster that released toxic chemical waste into the environment in 2021.
...Ethanol Plant Disaster Creates Environmental and Human Health Concerns for Rural Community in Mead, Nebraska...
Added: Nov 14, 2022
Describes how the Caldwell County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management responded to a hot air balloon crash resulting in mass fatalities in Maxwell, Texas in July of 2016.
...First Responders to Hot Air Balloon Crash in Caldwell County, Texas, Use All-Hazards Response...
Date: Apr 8, 2020
In the past five years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delivered two reports to Congress concerning traumatic brain injury. Concussions, or mild traumatic brain injuries, are common. With perspectives gained from their varied roles, five experts share information on concussions in rural America. - The Rural Monitor
...Concussion in Rural America: Experts Detail Injury and Recovery of Traumatic Brain Injury - The Rural...
Date: May 4, 2022
A new library initiative in Texas and an established crisis line in Georgia are bringing mental health services directly to rural residents through teams of lay mental health workers and mental health professionals. - The Rural Monitor
...Bringing Mental Health Services to Rural Residents - The Rural Monitor --- A new library initiative in...