Rural Health
                Resources by State: Utah
    
                    Utah Rural Primary Care Workforce
        
Offers maps and tables of the primary care workforce distribution in Utah in 2025. Includes county-level data and rural and urban comparisons.
Author(s): S.C. Woolcock, C.H.A. Andrilla, L.A. Garberson, J.M. Graves
Date: 10/2025
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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    Offers maps and tables of the primary care workforce distribution in Utah in 2025. Includes county-level data and rural and urban comparisons.
Author(s): S.C. Woolcock, C.H.A. Andrilla, L.A. Garberson, J.M. Graves
Date: 10/2025
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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                    Utah Rural Obstetrical Workforce
        
Offers maps and tables of the obstetricians and advanced practice midwives workforce distribution in Utah in 2025. Includes county-level data and rural and urban comparisons.
Author(s): S.C. Woolcock, C.H.A. Andrilla, L.A. Garberson, J.M. Graves
Date: 10/2025
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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    Offers maps and tables of the obstetricians and advanced practice midwives workforce distribution in Utah in 2025. Includes county-level data and rural and urban comparisons.
Author(s): S.C. Woolcock, C.H.A. Andrilla, L.A. Garberson, J.M. Graves
Date: 10/2025
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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                    Maternal Health in Utah: Risk Factors, Workforce Gaps, and Access to Care
        
Describes the state of maternal healthcare in Utah including outcomes, mortality, risk factors, health status, access to hospitals, and workforce shortages. Offers county-level data and discusses rural throughout.
Author(s): Melanie Beagley
Date: 09/2025
Sponsoring organizations: Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, Utah Department of Health and Human Services, Utah Office of Primary Care and Rural Health
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    Describes the state of maternal healthcare in Utah including outcomes, mortality, risk factors, health status, access to hospitals, and workforce shortages. Offers county-level data and discusses rural throughout.
Author(s): Melanie Beagley
Date: 09/2025
Sponsoring organizations: Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, Utah Department of Health and Human Services, Utah Office of Primary Care and Rural Health
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                    Community Navigation Intervention for Social Needs in Patients With Abnormal Mammography: A Randomized Controlled Trial Study Protocol
        
Presents a study exploring the efficacy of community navigators, such as 211, to help alleviate the social need and change the likelihood of cancer patients with unmet social needs to complete their follow-up care. Discusses the importance of follow-up care in the treatment and prevention of cancer and the barriers individuals with unmet social needs face to receive it. Explores rurality as a potential barrier.
Author(s): Kirstin Beck, Mackenzie Mitchell, Andrea S. Wallace, et al.
Citation: BMC Public Health, 25, 2926
Date: 08/2025
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    Presents a study exploring the efficacy of community navigators, such as 211, to help alleviate the social need and change the likelihood of cancer patients with unmet social needs to complete their follow-up care. Discusses the importance of follow-up care in the treatment and prevention of cancer and the barriers individuals with unmet social needs face to receive it. Explores rurality as a potential barrier.
Author(s): Kirstin Beck, Mackenzie Mitchell, Andrea S. Wallace, et al.
Citation: BMC Public Health, 25, 2926
Date: 08/2025
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                    Selected Rural Healthcare Facilities in Utah
        
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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    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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                    Utah Rural Behavioral Health Workforce
        
Offers maps and tables of the supply and distribution of behavioral health clinicians in Utah in 2025. Includes county-level data and rural and urban comparisons.
Author(s): S.C. Woolcock, C.H.A. Andrilla, L.A. Garberson, J.M. Graves
Date: 06/2025
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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    Offers maps and tables of the supply and distribution of behavioral health clinicians in Utah in 2025. Includes county-level data and rural and urban comparisons.
Author(s): S.C. Woolcock, C.H.A. Andrilla, L.A. Garberson, J.M. Graves
Date: 06/2025
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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                    Utah Physician and Osteopathic Physician Workforce Data Report
        
Report details the education, recruitment, and retention of Utah's physician and osteopathic physician workforce. Discusses supply and demand, demographics, geographic distribution, practice characteristics, projected supply and demand, and specialty profiles including primary care and specialty care.
Date: 04/2025
Sponsoring organization: Utah Department of Health and Human Services
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    Report details the education, recruitment, and retention of Utah's physician and osteopathic physician workforce. Discusses supply and demand, demographics, geographic distribution, practice characteristics, projected supply and demand, and specialty profiles including primary care and specialty care.
Date: 04/2025
Sponsoring organization: Utah Department of Health and Human Services
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                    A Multi-Constraint Monte Carlo Simulation Approach to Downscaling Cancer Data
        
Utilizes the multi-constraint Monte Carlo simulation method to analyze cancer counts in population subgroups from the county level to ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs). Utilizes 2016-2020 Utah Cancer Registry data to show cancer incidence by ZCTA. Discusses the importance of precision in cancer data reporting across the rural-urban continuum.
Author(s): Lingbo Liu, Lauren Cowan, Fahui Wang, Tracy Onega
Citation: Health & Place, 91, 103411
Date: 01/2025
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    Utilizes the multi-constraint Monte Carlo simulation method to analyze cancer counts in population subgroups from the county level to ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs). Utilizes 2016-2020 Utah Cancer Registry data to show cancer incidence by ZCTA. Discusses the importance of precision in cancer data reporting across the rural-urban continuum.
Author(s): Lingbo Liu, Lauren Cowan, Fahui Wang, Tracy Onega
Citation: Health & Place, 91, 103411
Date: 01/2025
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                    Rural Obstetrical Care Workforce: A State-Level Analysis
        
Provides fact sheets on the rural obstetrical care workforce for select states in 2025. Includes maps and tables providing county-level data and rural-urban comparisons of provider to population ratios for obstetricians, advanced practice midwives, and midwives.
Author(s): S.C. Woolcock, C.H.A. Andrilla, L.A. Garberson, J.M. Graves
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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    Provides fact sheets on the rural obstetrical care workforce for select states in 2025. Includes maps and tables providing county-level data and rural-urban comparisons of provider to population ratios for obstetricians, advanced practice midwives, and midwives.
Author(s): S.C. Woolcock, C.H.A. Andrilla, L.A. Garberson, J.M. Graves
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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                    Rural Behavioral Health Workforce: A State-Level Analysis
        
Provides fact sheets on the rural behavioral health workforce for select states in 2025. Includes maps and tables providing county-level data and rural-urban comparisons of provider to population ratios for psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, social workers, and counselors.
Author(s): S.C. Woolcock, C.H.A. Andrilla, L.A. Garberson, J.M. Graves
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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    Provides fact sheets on the rural behavioral health workforce for select states in 2025. Includes maps and tables providing county-level data and rural-urban comparisons of provider to population ratios for psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, social workers, and counselors.
Author(s): S.C. Woolcock, C.H.A. Andrilla, L.A. Garberson, J.M. Graves
Date: 2025
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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