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Date: 2024
Summarizes a May 2024 workshop discussing opportunities for increasing representation in clinical trials. Report discusses community engagement, data best practices, access to trials in their communities, perspectives of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and cross-sector collaborations. Includes information on community-based research, ethics, and relationship building within tribal communities as well as infrastructure challenges in rural clinical trial site selection.
...Cancer Policy Forum Date 2024 Organization Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences...
Date: Feb 2020
Highlights a study on the effect of travel distance on hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance for veterans with cirrhosis who are being treated by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Merges VHA and CMS data and breaks it down by demographics and travel distance to both VA and non-VA medical centers and the patients' primary care providers, among other measures.
...Research, 55(1), 103-112 Date 02/2020 Tagged as Cancer · Health disparities · Specialty care · Statistics and data · Veterans...
Date: Mar 2020
Results of a 2016 study of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among Iowa adolescents aged 13-15. Includes a county-level map showing urban and rural areas and their vaccination rates.
...Cancer · Children and youth · Infectious diseases · Rural-urban differences · Sexual and reproductive health · Statistics and data...
Date: Mar 2020
Describes the role of rural pharmacists in promoting and administering the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine using information gathered from interviews of 11 pharmacists at independently owned pharmacies in Iowa. Identifies factors facilitating the administration and accessibility of the vaccine and reports on personal barriers regarding safety, lack of information, and staff capacity.
...Cancer · Children and youth · Infectious diseases · Pharmacy and prescription drugs · Sexual and reproductive health · Statistics...
Date: Jun 27, 2018
Moving the conversation away from finances, advocates share why general surgery plays an important role in a comprehensive rural population health strategy by delivering the right care in the right place at the right time. - The Rural Monitor
...cancer screening, or urgent if food gets stuck in the esophagus. The rural surgeon is also...
Date: Mar 15, 2017
Oral health training programs are equipping Community Health Workers on Navajo Nation, Texas colonias, and Maryland's Appalachian communities to improve access to dental care and teach people how to take care of their teeth. - The Rural Monitor
...cancer program, and the smoking cessation program. It's a win-win for our people...
Date: Sep 2025
Compares the prevalence of chronic health conditions and associated risk factors in rural and urban areas, utilizing 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data. Includes data on health conditions including obesity, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and depression, among others. Includes state-by-state rural health data for select conditions.
...Cancer · Cardiovascular disease · Chronic respiratory conditions · Diabetes · Health conditions · Mental health conditions · Obesity and weight...
Date: Sep 2024
Reports on health disparities in North Carolina, identifies priority populations, and provides strategies to improve health equity. Discusses rural needs and provides rural-urban data comparisons on select topics including social drivers of health, access to care, health workforce, chronic and infectious disease, mental health, substance use, suicide, violence, and injury.
...Cancer · Cardiovascular disease · Health disparities · Health workforce supply and demand · Infectious diseases · Injuries · Mental health...
Date: Feb 2020
Describes health risks experienced by rural people and the problems they face in accessing healthcare in shortage areas, and offers possible solutions. Includes a map showing Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas by county, and a list of states allowing full practice authority for nurse practitioners as of 2019.
...Cancer · Cardiovascular disease · Diabetes · Health disparities · Health information technology · Health workforce supply and demand · Maternal...
Date: Sep 2019
Highlights a study examining the overall mortality rates of farmers and their families that participated in the Agricultural Health Survey in Iowa and North Carolina. Details participants by age, sex, education and smoking status, among other factors. Compares mortality rates to the general population.
...Cancer · Chronic respiratory conditions · Diabetes · Families · Farmers and farmworkers · Injuries · Mortality · Public health · Statistics and data...