Website Search Results for: social determinants of health

591. Farmworker Health Network: 2024 Key Resources for Agricultural Worker Health - Resources
Date: Jan 2025

Highlights several resources on agricultural worker health, including a toolkit to encourage ag worker participation on health center boards and model programs to address specific health conditions. Provides a summary for each resource and links to more information on each sponsoring program's website.

...safety · Farmers and farmworkers · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Migrants · Primary care · Social determinants of health...

592. "It Was Just Really Hard to Be Pregnant in a Smaller Town …": Pregnant and Parenting Teenagers' Perspectives of Social Support in Their Rural Communities - Resources
Date: Dec 2022

Examines the levels of support available for pregnant and parenting teenagers in rural communities. Provides information from 26 interviews with current and former pregnant/parenting teenagers who report on the availability of emotional, instrumental, informational, and appraisal social supports.

...Families · Maternal health and prenatal care · Social connectedness · Social determinants of health · Teen pregnancy · Women...

593. Assessing Measurement Invariance in Neighborhood Socioeconomic Environment Across Levels of Urbanicity - Resources
Date: Oct 2025

Examines neighborhood socioeconomic status (NSES) variables by census tract and their relationship to public health. Provides data on poverty, use of public assistance, employment characteristics, transportation insecurity, education, and more, by higher density urban, lower density urban, suburban/small town, and rural location.

...Income · Poverty · Public health · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health · Statistics and data · Transportation...

594. Analysis of Cost-of-Living Data for Pennsylvania Counties - Resources
Date: May 2018

Features a report on the cost-of-living in Pennsylvania by county. Looks at costs of utilities, transportation, and healthcare, among others, while identifying whether or not counties are rural.

...Employment and unemployment · Income · Poverty · Public health · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health · Pennsylvania...

595. Health Center-Based Medical-Legal Partnerships: Where They Are, How They Work, and How They Are Funded - Resources
Date: Jan 2018

Describes the expansion of medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) among America's health centers. Highlights programs in four states - Colorado, Oregon, Indiana, and California - and explains how MLPs operate, how they are financed, and how state primary care associations are supporting them. Briefly describes the reasons MLPs are more prevalent in urban areas than in rural areas.

...Federally Qualified Health Centers · Networking and collaboration · Social determinants of health · California · Colorado · Indiana · Oregon...

596. Community Susceptibility and Resiliency to COVID‐19 Across the Rural‐Urban Continuum in the United States - Resources
Date: Jun 2020

Presents a county-level susceptibility scale for COVID-19. Highlights 7 susceptibility factors related to health and socioeconomic resiliency and discusses the different concerns of rural and urban communities.

...Tagged as COVID-19 · Health disparities · Public health · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health...

597. Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities - A Report of the Surgeon General - Resources
Date: Nov 2024

Report explores disparities in tobacco use and tobacco use-related health outcomes. Identifies tobacco-related disparities and the various demographic groups that still use tobacco products at a higher rate than the national average, such as people below the poverty level, workers in manual labor or service industry jobs, and people who live in rural communities, among others. Highlights strategies for curtailing the expansion of tobacco use and details promising interventions for reducing tobacco-related health disparities.

...Poverty · Public health · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health · Statistics and data · Tobacco use...

598. Congruence Between County Dental Health Provider Shortage Area Designations and the Social Vulnerability Index - Resources
Date: Jun 2024

Provides visual comparisons of the relationship between Dental Health Provider Shortage Areas (HPSAs) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2020 Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) designations on county-level U.S. maps. Includes table showing median county-level SVI score by HPSA designation, broken down by metro, nonmetro, and all county.

...workforce shortage designations · Oral health · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health · Statistics and data...

599. Perspectives on Supporting Veterans' Social Needs During Hospital to Home Health Transitions: Findings from the Transitions Nurse Program - Resources
Date: Apr 2024

Examines the social needs of veterans who utilize post-acute home health care (HHC) by exploring the perspectives of clinicians, care partners, and the veterans themselves. Analyzes 35 interviews that took place at Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Medical Centers and discusses social needs as related to HHC, social needs screening during hospitalization, delays in HHC, and communication between HHC and VHA. Includes social need examples specific to rural veterans.

...Research, 24, 520 Date 04/2024 Tagged as Home health · Post-acute care · Social determinants of health · Veterans...

600. Leveraging Evidence-Based Policies to Improve Health, Control Costs, and Create Health Equity - Resources
Date: Jul 2021

Explores healthcare access for various populations, including people living in rural communities. Discusses strategies and policies focused on access to healthcare, economic mobility, affordable housing, safe learning environments for young adults and children, and health-promoting excise taxes.

...Children and youth · Health disparities · LGB · Policy · Poverty · Social determinants of health · Statistics and data...