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Date: Dec 2013
Identifies the scope of practice, supervision, financing, and the workforce standards implemented by states and employers in the development of community health worker (CHW) programs. Four case studies that include rural counties illustrate the challenges and opportunities for integrating CHWs into health systems.
...Diabetes · Health workforce education and training · Home and community-based services · Medicaid · Wellness, health promotion...
Date: Jan 2020
Describes "Get Healthy, Eat Well," an initiative by Tanner Health System to promote healthy behaviors in its rural Georgia and Alabama communities. Provides an overview of the framework that guided the network of community partners, school and community interventions, and results of the program. Includes lessons learned and next steps.
...Diabetes · Food security and nutrition · Networking and collaboration · Obesity and weight control · Schools · Social determinants...
Date: Dec 2013
Describes the population served at an episodic clinic in Southwest Virginia to better understand patient needs at a yearly episodic Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic providing free healthcare services. Includes demographic information collected from RAM patient records, including age, sex, primary care physician access, tobacco use, and more.
...Health, 13(4), 2557 12/2013 Appalachia · Clinics · Diabetes · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Virginia...
Date: Jan 2022
Examines the affordability of prescription drugs among Medicare beneficiaries. Explores whether Medicare beneficiaries skipped doses, took less medication, delayed filling a prescription, or did not fill needed prescriptions due to cost concerns. Explores affordability concerns by race and ethnicity, sex, family income, urban versus rural counties, and presence of select chronic conditions.
...Chronic respiratory conditions · Diabetes · Medicare · Pharmacy and prescription drugs · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Date: Apr 2026
Describes how county-level data on healthcare workforce, chronic disease prevalence, and socioeconomic environment of rural communities can help policymakers identify the highest need counties for targeted policy initiatives and public health intervention. Features county-level U.S. maps showing geographic distribution of chronic disease burden, socioeconomic status, physician density, and overall resource need, with shadings showing level of need or nonrural status.
...Diabetes · Health workforce supply and demand · Mental health conditions · Obesity and weight control · Physicians · Public...
Date: May 2024
Series of videos highlighting challenges with access to quality healthcare for rural Americans. Discusses healthcare access in remote locations, food insecurity and farming practices, transportation, wellness initiatives, and chronic health conditions in 5 states. Transcript available in video description.
...Diabetes · Food security and nutrition · Frontier and remote areas · Obesity and weight control · Transportation · Wellness...
Date: Jul 25, 2018
The connection between bullying and youth suicide in rural Union Parish, Louisiana, led a Critical Access Hospital to create an anti-bullying program. Together with local law enforcement, they teach students in elementary through high school the negative effects of peer victimization and how to model positive social behavior. - The Rural Monitor
...diabetes, long-term heart disease, and other physical and mental debilitations. The frequent release of the stress...
Date: Jul 2018
Evaluates the feasibility, and behavioral health and physical health outcomes resulting from the Generations Health intervention program to prevent obesity in children. This intervention program focuses on physical activity, nutrition, sleep and reduction of screen time, and engages parents and families in home-based activities supporting their child's health.
...Diabetes · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Tribal communities · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
Date: Oct 2019
Compares rates of potentially avoidable deaths in rural and urban communities and shows how these deaths vary by census region. Features statistics on modifiable risk factors, such as smoking, excessive alcohol use, and obesity, and percent of potentially preventable deaths attributable to specific health conditions, with breakdowns by rural and urban areas.
...Diabetes · Injuries · Mortality · Obesity and weight control · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Tobacco use...
Date: Dec 2024
Describes how community health centers work to fill gaps in healthcare services and impact the economy when a local rural hospital closes.
...services · Diabetes · Economics and the economy · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Maternal health and prenatal care...