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Resources by State: Florida

Co-Creating Non-Congregate Summer Meals: Engaging Your Community to Design Your Program
Examines collaborative processes to create successful non-congregate summer meal programs in rural communities. Discusses a pilot program in Florida and offers suggestions related to meal sites, activities for children, caregiver appreciation, and more.
Date: 09/2025
Sponsoring organization: No Kid Hungry
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Implementing a Chatbot to Promote Hereditary Breast & Ovarian Cancer Genetic Screening in Women's Health: Identifying Barriers and Facilitators to Screening Adoption
Analyzes perceived facilitators and barriers to a chatbot-based hereditary breast and ovarian cancer screening among 17 women in rural northern region of Florida. Discusses the importance of increasing access to cancer screening in rural areas.
Author(s): Easton N Wollney, Shireen Madani Sims, Luisel J Ricks-Santi, et al.
Citation: BMC Public Health, 25, 2516
Date: 07/2025
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Cost-Effectiveness of the Rural Lifestyle Eating and Activity Program (Rural LEAP)
Analyzes the cost-effectiveness of telephone-based coaching sessions after participation in a weight loss intervention, utilizing data from a trial conducted from 2013-2018 in rural Florida counties. Discusses the importance of delivering cost-effective treatment for obesity in rural areas.
Author(s): Tiffany A. Radcliff, Murray J. Côté, Meena N. Shankar, et al.
Citation: PLoS One, 20(7), e0326383
Date: 07/2025
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Selected Rural Healthcare Facilities in Florida
Shows the state's Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs), and Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), as well as Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) sites and short term/PPS (Prospective Payment System) hospitals located in rural areas.
Date: 07/2025
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Designing Participant-Centered Non-Congregate Summer Meal Programs
A recorded webinar that discusses non-congregate meal programs that serve rural populations in the summer. Focuses on the Second Harvest program in rural Florida and how they incorporated participant feedback and collaborated with community members. Transcript available below description.
Additional links: Slide Deck
Date: 05/2025
Sponsoring organization: No Kid Hungry
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Predictors of County-Level Diabetes-Related Mortality Risks in Florida, USA: A Retrospective Ecological Study
Examines geographic disparities in diabetes-related mortality risk (DRMR) in Florida. Explores the association between county-level factors and DRMR, including data on rurality, age, health behaviors, and more.
Author(s): Nirmalendu Deb Nath, Agricola Odoi
Citation: PeerJ Life & Environment, 13, e18537
Date: 01/2025
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Rural Roads to Cognitive Resilience (RRR): A Prospective Cohort Study Protocol
Study protocol to investigate the influence of smoke-related fine particulate matter exposures and social and built environments on social isolation and cognitive function among rural Floridians in areas affected by seasonal agricultural burning. Discusses the significance of health disparities associated with agriculture in predominantly Black and Hispanic communities.
Author(s): Lilah M. Besser, Lisa Wiese, Diane J. Cook, et al.
Citation: PloS ONE, 20(1), e0312660
Date: 01/2025
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Sustainability Resources for Rural Public Health Workforce Training Network (RPHWTN) Program Awardees
Offers guidance to awardees of the Rural Public Health Workforce Training Network (RPHWTN) on creating sustainability for funded projects. Lists resources and funding opportunities for awarded projects at the national and state levels.
Date: 01/2025
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Florida Physician Workforce: 2024 Annual Report
Presents a summary of results from Florida physician workforce surveys completed between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2024. Features statistics on demographics and practice characteristics, and includes sections on primary care, OB/GYN, and Medicare and Medicaid. Appendix B includes numbers of Florida physicians per capita, with breakdowns by county.
Date: 11/2024
Sponsoring organization: Florida Health
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FY 2024: HRSA's Rural Health Grants – Florida Fact Sheet
HRSA Federal Office of Rural Health Policy investments in Florida in Fiscal Year 2024. Lists grant recipients, award amounts, award recipient locations, and congressional district.
Date: 11/2024
Sponsoring organization: Federal Office of Rural Health Policy
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