Rural Health
News by Topic: Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention
Oct 30, 2025 - Describes community-wide efforts to combat an increase in suicides in rural Colorado. Highlights a mental health response team comprised of police and a mental health professional. Discusses rural specific drivers of suicide rates.
Source: The Colorado Sun
Oct 22, 2025 - Highlights the rural expansion of a Missouri program promoting meal planning, freezing meals, and sharing excess food. Discusses how the program promotes healthier eating for rural residents with higher rates of diet-related illness and other health disparities.
Source: MU Extension News
Oct 21, 2025 - Video discussing food deserts in Vermont and an initiative by one rural church to address hunger in their community.
Source: United Church of Christ
Oct 15, 2025 - Highlights a partnership between a rural Kentucky school system and local health system to increase access to mental health services for students. The program aims to overcome common barriers, particularly transportation. Notes existing partnerships with other school districts and the health system and plans to continue expanding.
Source: LEX 18
Oct 15, 2025 - Highlights the work of rural health fellows at Augusta University in Georgia. Discusses the benefits to both the rural communities and the fellows themselves. Notes the potential for retaining fellows in rural practice where there are workforce shortages for both primary and specialty care.
Source: Jagwire
Oct 14, 2025 - Describes a trend toward using mobile health clinics in rural and other communities to increase access to healthcare. Discusses how mobile clinics can fill gaps in telehealth services, improve health outcomes, be used for community paramedicine programs, develop the healthcare workforce, and more. Notes the need for better data and more funding to continue research on the impact of mobile clinics.
Source: The Daily Yonder
Oct 10, 2025 - Discusses a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in rural Alaska, describing both the public health response and disparate rates of TB for Alaska historically. Notes stigma related to TB treatment as a barrier to successfully increasing testing.
Source: Alaska Public Media
Oct 9, 2025 - Highlights a new program in rural South Carolina to address malnutrition through protein focused nutrition prescriptions. Participants will have access to food boxes twice a month for 5 months as well as cooking demonstrations.
Source: Clemson News
Oct 7, 2025 - Describes a community baby shower event in a rural Missouri county. The event connects mothers with local healthcare, conducts car seat checks, promotes social connectedness, and highlights support services in the community.
Source: KY3
Oct 2, 2025 - Highlights the benefits of collaboration between academia and healthcare practitioners as demonstrated by a 10 year partnership between an Indian Health Service (IHS) hospital and the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy. Describes how the partnership was established to increase access to naloxone and other prevention work as well as how it has grown to include training, innovative pharmacy-based interventions and services, and international perspectives.
Source: Indian Health Service