Website Search Results for: diabetes
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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...
Reviewed: Oct 2025
Interactive chart showing county- and state-level physician supply, preventable hospitalizations, and length of stay for selected conditions. Covers asthma in adults under 40, COPD and asthma in adults over 40, community-acquired pneumonia, diabetes, heart failure, hypertension, and urinary tract infection.
...diabetes, heart failure, hypertension, and urinary tract infection. --- California Physician Supply and Preventable Hospitalizations by County...
Date: May 2018
Describes the prevalence of obesity, hypertension, cholesterol, and diabetes at the county-level and by local health department service areas using 2015 and 2016 Nebraska data.
...diabetes at the county-level and by local health department service areas using 2015 and 2016 Nebraska...
Date: Aug 2019
Reports the results of a randomized controlled trial examining the impacts of home food gardens on the health status of 176 adults from 96 families of the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes living on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Compares the rates of obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes among study participants with the state and national disease rates in 2017, and national disease rates of participants from tribal communities in 2015.
...diabetes among study participants with the state and national disease rates in 2017, and national...
Date: 2020
Describes and examines the impact of a care coordination program developed by the Williamson Health and Wellness Center based in Williamson, West Virginia. Describes the program's use of care teams of community health workers, a registered nurse, and a nurse practitioner providing care coordination to patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure (CHF), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Funded under the Rural Health Care Coordination Network Partnership Grant Program from 2015-2018, with additional private funding from a network of local philanthropies.
...diabetes, congestive heart failure (CHF), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Funded under the Rural...
Date: Jan 2024
Highlights a study exploring the rates of mortality and morbidity from noncommunicable diseases in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago. Explores the prevalence of risk factors for heart disease, diabetes, and cancer via blood samples collected from participants. Details participant characteristics, such as age, general health, and comorbidities, among other measures.
...diabetes, and cancer via blood samples collected from participants. Details participant characteristics, such as age, general...
Date: Aug 2019
Presents a study on an intervention to address obesity and type 2 diabetes among rural American Indian youth. Details an exercise-based intervention implemented via a partnership between the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
...diabetes among rural American Indian youth. Details an exercise-based intervention implemented via a partnership...
Date: Mar 2000
Investigates urban-rural disparities for racial and ethnic minorities in six health areas: infant mortality, cancer screening and management, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, HIV infection, and child and adult immunizations. Provides data for the years 1991-1995.
...diabetes, HIV infection, and child and adult immunizations. Provides data for the years 1991-1995. --- Race...
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...
Reviewed: Mar 2026
Provides resources and information on the impact of chronic disease in rural areas, as well as prevention and treatment strategies. Highlights specific chronic diseases, including heart disease and stroke, diabetes, chronic respiratory conditions, arthritis, HIV/AIDS, and obesity.
...diabetes, chronic respiratory conditions, arthritis, HIV/AIDS, and obesity. --- Chronic Disease in Rural America Topic Guide...