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Reviewed: Feb 7, 2024
Information and resources focused on rural maternal health disparities, issues of access, barriers to rural maternal well-being, and workforce challenges. Highlights strategies, programs, and policies that support rural maternal health.
...diabetes, prepregnancy hypertension, prenatal care initiation in the first trimester, cigarette smoking, and a behavioral...
Added: Jul 16, 2020
Information on community paramedicine programs that focus on improving access to primary care services that help monitor the patient's health.
...diabetes, or pressure ulcers resulting from poor mobility. Treatment is beneficial to speed healing and minimize...
Date: Oct 20, 2021
A common health condition, epilepsy impacts rural populations in many ways, including the ability to drive. Medical and public health experts join an advocacy organization to review the condition's impact and outline rural management approaches — including seizure first aid. - The Rural Monitor
...diabetic — they are considered to have epilepsy. To diagnose epilepsy, providers take a careful history...
Date: Jan 9, 2019
Rural Americans of all ages often go without eye healthcare, a gap that has obvious consequences: blindness and low vision. National associations and an FQHC administrator talk about how rural vision care can be improved to increase quality of life and prevent disability in rural patients. - The Rural Monitor
...diabetic retinopathy . Above that age range, another eye disease commonly causes vision loss: age-related...
Date: Jun 16, 2021
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is a condition that continues to steal rural America's breath. Researchers, philanthropists, and healthcare professionals talk about new rural research efforts and the impact of COVID-19 on COPD. Also discussed is the importance of pulmonary rehabilitation, an impactful treatment long known to improve quality of life and now backed by new research proving it decreases death rates in select patients. - The Rural Monitor
...diabetes, all are going in the right direction. Except for one chronic disease. That exception...
Reviewed: Jan 5, 2024
Resources and information related to health and healthcare access for migratory and seasonal agricultural workers (MSAWs). Discusses health concerns for this population, barriers to accessing healthcare, and how healthcare organizations can help meet their needs.
...diabetes, malnutrition, depression, substance use, infectious diseases, pesticide poisoning, and injuries from physical stress and work...
Date: Oct 23, 2024
Maternal deaths have increased in the U.S., with half of those deaths occurring in the year after childbirth. In many rural communities, accessing necessary postpartum care has become increasingly difficult. - The Rural Monitor
...diabetes, hypertension, and cardiomyopathy, and they can also be a lifeline for women experiencing less...
Date: Jul 1, 2020
Butler Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania received a HRSA Rural Health Care Services Outreach grant to develop a program for chronic disease patients. Partway through the grant cycle, the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The hospital shares how it was able to transition its program services to an online format and develop new initiatives to address stress in the healthcare workforce and the larger community. - The Rural Monitor
...diabetes, ischemic heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and hypertension. Program enrollees receive a wide...
Date: Jan 9, 2019
Highlighting eye care as more than prescribing glasses, an optometrist explains how the medical model of optometry brings additional health benefits to rural patients. - The Rural Monitor
...diabetes, we can check their blood sugar and get them in to see the primary...
Added: Sep 14, 2022
Cornerstone Care is a network of community health centers using prevention initiatives in childhood and care management to promote health literacy and reduce diabetes and other chronic diseases.
...diabetes and other chronic diseases. --- Cornerstone Care Project Title: H.O.N.E.Y. (Healthy Options, Nutrition, Exercise, Youth...