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Date: Nov 2024
Provides an overview of tribal epidemiology centers (TECs), focusing on their impact on the availability and quality of public health surveillance data for American Indians and Alaskan Natives. Discusses challenges with collecting data for this population and strategies TECs are using to address these issues. Offers examples of public health best practices from TECs related to cancer, behavioral health, substance use, infectious diseases, and more.
...cancer, behavioral health, substance use, infectious diseases, and more. --- Tribal Epidemiology Centers: Strengthening American Indian...
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
...cancer, and unintentional injuries were on this list, along with chronic lower respiratory diseases. This...
Date: Oct 2023
Describes equity weighting, a measurement used to address population health disparities by examining multiple demographic factors that then interpret healthcare quality for specific population groups. Utilizes 2017 Medicare colorectal cancer screening data to show examples of equity weighting, with demographics broken down by patient race and rurality.
...cancer screening data to show examples of equity weighting, with demographics broken down by patient...
Date: Jan 2026
Provides a national and state-by-state overview of population health by analyzing 99 measures drawn from 31 data sources to describe and rank health outcomes in the U.S. Analyzes and presents data on disparities by geography and demographic characteristics throughout. See the section titled, "Spotlight: Rural Communities," for information on trends in colorectal and breast cancer screening rates and physical inactivity of adults in rural areas between 2022 and 2024.
...cancer screening rates and physical inactivity of adults in rural areas between 2022 and 2024. --- America...
Date: 2016
Describes health disparities between Wisconsin Native Americans and their White peers, with discussion of how new Medicaid policies could result in increased access to health services, improved care coordination for tribal health patients, and additional support for Indian Health Service providers. Features statistics including infant mortality rates, age-adjusted mortality rate, diabetes and cancer age-adjusted mortality rates, suicide rates, and average age of death.
...cancer age-adjusted mortality rates, suicide rates, and average age of death. --- Closing Gaps in Native...
Reviewed: Jan 3, 2025
Provides an overview of rural public health agencies. Answers frequently asked questions about the availability, provision, funding, and workforce needs of rural public health agencies. Discusses local health department accreditation, education and training, and collaboration with healthcare providers to improve population health.
...Cancer screening Maternal and child health surveillance Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) STD screening and treatment...
Date: Jan 2017
Examines health outcomes and behaviors by sexual orientation for adults in New Mexico. Covers demographics, access to healthcare, chronic health conditions, behavioral risk factors including binge drinking and smoking, protective factors such as HIV and cervical cancer screening, and quality of life differences such as mental health. Includes rural/urban breakdowns for demographics and addresses disparities by race/ethnicity, including American Indian/Alaska Native lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults.
...cancer screening, and quality of life differences such as mental health. Includes rural/urban breakdowns for demographics...
Date: Apr 2025
Transcript from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's (MedPAC) April 2025 meeting. Covers physician fee schedule updates and improving the accuracy of relative payment rates; structural differences between the stand-alone prescription drug plan (PDP) and Medicare Advantage–Prescription Drug plan (MA–PD) markets; the utilization and delivery of Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits; the effect of Medicare Advantage on rural hospitals; paying for software technologies in Medicare; access to hospice and certain services under the hospice benefit for beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease and beneficiaries with cancer; and regulations, star ratings, and fee-for-service Medicare policies aimed at improving nursing home quality.
...cancer; and regulations, star ratings, and fee-for-service Medicare policies aimed at improving nursing...
Date: Oct 2023
Outlines county-level and community-level strategies that organizations in Iowa are undertaking to address the 7 priority health areas outlined in Healthy Iowans: Iowa's State Health Assessment: access, cancer, economic stability and income, healthy eating and active living, housing, mental health and mental disorders, and substance use. Includes organization name, strategy, desired outcome, and contact information.
...cancer, economic stability and income, healthy eating and active living, housing, mental health and mental...
Date: Apr 2024
Compares demographics and disease characteristics of rural and urban patients diagnosed with melanoma in Indiana between January 2017 and September 2022. Discusses rural disparities in access and treatment.
...Cancer Reports, 7(4), e2072 04/2024 Access · Cancer · Health disparities · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...