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Date: Jan 2023
Explores the availability of telehealth and oncology services across geographic and sociodemographic domains before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizes 2019 and 2020 data sources to examine hospital characteristics by telehealth and oncology services, with information on hospital ownership, number of hospital beds, Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) status, presence of Rural Health Clinic (RHC) co-located at hospital, and more. Includes availability of telehealth, oncology, and hospital services broken down by county; HPSA status; income, average age, and race/ethnicity of residents; ratio of population to primary care physicians; rural noncore, rural micropolitan, or urban status; and more.
...Cancer Care in the United States --- Explores the availability of telehealth and oncology services across...
Date: Jun 2022
Examines cervical screening outcomes in low-income and uninsured women by sociodemographic factors such as age, marital status, race/ethnicity, rurality, and Papanicolaou (Pap) test screening history. Analyzes outcomes of Pap tests, human papillomavirus (HPV) tests, and colposcopies administered to 841 women between 2013 and 2019 by urban, large rural, small rural, and isolated location, as well as other sociodemographic factors.
...Cancer Screening Outcomes Among a Sample of Low-Income Uninsured Women: A Program-Based Study...
Date: 2021
Evaluates the effectiveness of a BEAT Cancer, a physical activity intervention for female cancer survivors, utilizing data from 16 program participants in a rural, community setting. Includes data on outcomes related to physical activity, mental health, quality of life, and barriers to physical activity of 16 participants. Includes program implementation and design feedback from participants.
...Cancer, a physical activity intervention for female cancer survivors, utilizing data from 16 program participants...
Date: Sep 2017
Highlights an investigation into the health effects of exposure to organochlorine pesticides for farmers and their spouses. Draws data from the Agricultural Health Study, which surveys agricultural workers in Iowa and North Carolina.
...Cancer Risk among Agricultural Health Study Farm Spouses Associated with Personal Use of Organochlorine Insecticides...
Date: Dec 2016
Analysis of data collected from 145 providers at 27 American Indian health facilities in the Northern Plains. Features statistics with breakdowns by type and frequency of tests, type of providers, and factors influencing screening practices.
...Cancer Screening Among Health Care Providers Serving Northern Plains American Indians, 2011-2012 --- Analysis of data...
Date: Nov 2025
Discusses the socioeconomic factors that correlate with acute care utilization among cancer patients, as well as the effect of regional specialist scarcity. Draws from Medicare data on patients with breast, lung, or colorectal cancer who have visited emergency departments or had non-elective hospitalizations and explores correlating social and regional factors, such as sex, rurality, social deprivation index score, and proximity to an oncology physician, among others.
...cancer patients, as well as the effect of regional specialist scarcity. Draws from Medicare data...
Date: Sep 2023
Poster presentation that shows data on rural and urban receipt of Pap screenings between 2019 and 2022. Utilizes National Cancer Institutes HINT data to examine demographic differences and disparities in preventative cancer screenings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
...Cancer Institutes HINT data to examine demographic differences and disparities in preventative cancer screenings during...
Added: Jun 14, 2024
Learn about rural chronic diseases, including the goals and benefits of rural chronic disease management programs.
...cancer, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, and skin cancer, among others, which...
Date: Aug 2025
Presents a study exploring the efficacy of community navigators, such as 211, to help alleviate the social need and change the likelihood of cancer patients with unmet social needs to complete their follow-up care. Discusses the importance of follow-up care in the treatment and prevention of cancer and the barriers individuals with unmet social needs face to receive it. Explores rurality as a potential barrier.
...cancer patients with unmet social needs to complete their follow-up care. Discusses the importance...
Date: Dec 12, 2018
For many rural Americans, distance to a specialty healthcare center hundreds of miles away makes for a long, uncomfortable, and expensive trip. In the past several decades, dozens of charitable flight services have cropped up to transport rural veterans, cancer patients, the chronically ill, and even abused children to treatment. - The Rural Monitor
...cancer patients, the chronically ill, and even abused children to treatment. - The Rural Monitor --- Dec 12, 2018 Taking...