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251. Rural Health Disparities: Contemporary Solutions for Persistent Rural Public Health Challenges - Resources
Date: Jun 2025

Special issue of Preventing Chronic Disease featuring articles that examine rural health disparities and discuss rural public health strategies to address cancer, diabetes, and other chronic conditions, and to promote physical activity.

...diabetes, and other chronic conditions, and to promote physical activity. --- Rural Health Disparities: Contemporary Solutions...

252. Combined Prevalence of Chronic Conditions or Obesity for Adults in 2022 - Resources
Date: Aug 2025

Examines the combined prevalence of obesity and chronic health conditions, including high blood pressure, cancer, and diabetes, among others, by demographic group, utilizing Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component data. See Figure 6 for a comparison of prevalence between metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) and non-MSAs.

...diabetes, among others, by demographic group, utilizing Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component data...

253. The High Obesity Program: A Collaboration Between Public Health and Cooperative Extension Services to Address Obesity - Resources
Date: Mar 2020

Describes the activities of Programs to Reduce Obesity in High Obesity Areas, also known as High Obesity Program (HOP), developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in partnership with land grant universities and local Cooperative Extension Offices. HOP was designed to implement evidence-based strategies to improve physical activity and nutrition in mostly rural communities with high rates of obesity to reduce obesity and prevent or control diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.

...diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. --- The High Obesity Program: A Collaboration Between Public Health and Cooperative...

254. How USPS Network Changes Threaten Prescription Drug Access for Vulnerable Populations - Resources
Date: Dec 2025

Discusses the impact of mail processing changes on mail-order medication and asthma and diabetes management for rural communities. Highlights the "triple burden" of limited pharmacy access, high use of mail-order prescriptions, and proximity to postal service restructuring. Includes rural and urban comparisons, Medicare data, and county-level analysis.

...diabetes management for rural communities. Highlights the "triple burden" of limited pharmacy access, high use of mail...

255. Integrated Behavioral Health Implementation and Chronic Disease Management Inequities: An Exploratory Study of Statewide Data - Resources
Date: Aug 2024

Examines associations between the use of integrated behavioral health (IBH) and quality of asthma, diabetes, and vascular disease management at 102 primary care clinics in Minnesota. Analyzes how rurality, racial profile of clinical location, and patient socioeconomic status interact with IBH adoption and quality of chronic disease management.

...diabetes, and vascular disease management at 102 primary care clinics in Minnesota. Analyzes how rurality...

256. North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics (SCHS): Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS): 2024 Survey Results - Resources
Added: Dec 2025

Provides survey data on health behaviors and health status in North Carolina for 2024. Covers access to care, exercise, tobacco use, alcohol consumption, immunization, H.I.V./AIDS, long-term COVID effects, disabilities, chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and arthritis, and more. Data comparing responses from rural, suburban, and urban counties can be accessed via data tables for each question asked.

...diabetes, hypertension, and arthritis, and more. Data comparing responses from rural, suburban, and urban counties...

257. Behavioral and Subjective Health Changes in US and Mexico Border Residing Participants in Two Promotora-Led Chronic Disease Prevention Interventions - Resources
Date: Dec 2018

Study of two community health worker (CHW) chronic disease prevention programs serving Mexico-born residents of the U.S-Mexico border region: one in a rural Arizona community and one in an urban community in Sonora, Mexico. Discusses challenges related to healthy diet, physical activity, and social support as risk factors for obesity and diabetes. Analyzes data from self-report assessments to evaluate behavioral and subjective health improvements over 6 months of the intervention programs.

...diabetes. Analyzes data from self-report assessments to evaluate behavioral and subjective health improvements over...

258. Rural Health Literacy: Understanding Skills and Demands is Key to Improvement - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Apr 19, 2017

Every rural provider has a horror story attached to low health literacy. Health literacy, or getting, understanding, and using health information, involves two sides. Researchers and experts explain that by understanding both the skills and demands side of health literacy, providers and organizations can help their patients move to improved health. - The Rural Monitor

...diabetic patient who was told to decrease sugar intake by stopping their six daily sodas...

259. WVU Medicine Opens New Wound Care Clinic in New Martinsville, Expanding Rural Access - News
Date: Mar 4, 2026

A new wound care clinic has opened in rural West Virginia. Notes that rural residents are more likely to experience diabetes and vascular conditions, diseases associated with slow to heal wounds and increased risk of infection. Source: WTOV 9.

...diabetes and vascular conditions, diseases associated with slow to heal wounds and increased risk of infection...

260. Association Between the Food and Physical Activity Environment, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Health Across Maine Counties - Resources
Date: 2019

Study examining associations between demographic and environmental factors, such as food availability and access to fitness facilities, and prevalence of obesity and poor cardiovascular health (CVH) in the predominantly rural state of Maine. Includes relationships between individual characteristics, like age and income, and risk factors for poor CVH, including smoking, physical inactivity, obesity, poor diet, and diabetes.

...diabetes. --- Association Between the Food and Physical Activity Environment, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Health Across Maine...