Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Behavioral health
Rural Border Health Chartbook
Examines potential geographic and ethnic disparities among U.S.-Mexico border residents and describes select indicators related to access to care, women's preventive services, oral health, infectious and communicable diseases, and mental health that have been identified as disparities.
Additional links: Fact Sheet
Author(s): Amy Brock Martin, Myriam E. Torres, Medha Vyavaharkar, et al.
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural and Minority Health Research Center (formerly the South Carolina Rural Health Research Center)
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Examines potential geographic and ethnic disparities among U.S.-Mexico border residents and describes select indicators related to access to care, women's preventive services, oral health, infectious and communicable diseases, and mental health that have been identified as disparities.
Additional links: Fact Sheet
Author(s): Amy Brock Martin, Myriam E. Torres, Medha Vyavaharkar, et al.
Date: 01/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural and Minority Health Research Center (formerly the South Carolina Rural Health Research Center)
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Best Practices in American Indian & Alaska Native Public Health
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 best practices from tribal epidemiology centers on various health topics, including cancer, mental health, tobacco use, and more.
Date: 2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Tribal Epidemiology Centers
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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 best practices from tribal epidemiology centers on various health topics, including cancer, mental health, tobacco use, and more.
Date: 2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Tribal Epidemiology Centers
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Enforcement of Ohio's Smoke Free Workplace Law Through the Lens of Public Health Practice
Provides a rural versus urban comparison of Ohio's public health workforce enforcing a smoke-free workplace law in Ohio to determine agency and workforce associations. Includes demographic data and county and agency characteristic data by region, jurisdiction, rural versus urban, and status of enforcement of the law.
Author(s): David Bruckman, Terry Allan, Matthew Stefanak, et al.
Citation: Public Health Reports, 128(1), 54-63
Date: 2013
Type: Document
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Provides a rural versus urban comparison of Ohio's public health workforce enforcing a smoke-free workplace law in Ohio to determine agency and workforce associations. Includes demographic data and county and agency characteristic data by region, jurisdiction, rural versus urban, and status of enforcement of the law.
Author(s): David Bruckman, Terry Allan, Matthew Stefanak, et al.
Citation: Public Health Reports, 128(1), 54-63
Date: 2013
Type: Document
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Comparison of Enrollment Rates of African-American Families Into a School-Based Tobacco Prevention Trial Using Two Recruitment Strategies in Urban and Rural Settings
Describes results from using two recruitment approaches targeting rural and urban African-American elementary school families in the South for enrollment in a tobacco prevention program. The intervention used the Facilitate, Open and transparent communication, Shared benefits, Team and tailored, Educate bilaterally, and Relationships, realistic and rewards (FOSTER) approach, which is based on community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles.
Author(s): Martha S. Tingen, Jeannette O. Andrews, Janie Heath, et al.
Citation: American Journal of Health Promotion, 27(4), e91–e100
Date: 2013
Type: Document
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Describes results from using two recruitment approaches targeting rural and urban African-American elementary school families in the South for enrollment in a tobacco prevention program. The intervention used the Facilitate, Open and transparent communication, Shared benefits, Team and tailored, Educate bilaterally, and Relationships, realistic and rewards (FOSTER) approach, which is based on community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles.
Author(s): Martha S. Tingen, Jeannette O. Andrews, Janie Heath, et al.
Citation: American Journal of Health Promotion, 27(4), e91–e100
Date: 2013
Type: Document
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Implementing Housing First in Rural Areas: Pathways Vermont
Describes how a program, which has proven successful in addressing chronic homelessness for mentally ill populations in urban areas, has been adapted for rural areas of Vermont. Includes examples of the use of telehealth and other technology to help this population increase housing retention rates.
Author(s): Ana Stefancic, Benjamin F. Henwood, Hilary Melton, et al.
Citation: American Journal of Public Health, 103(S2), 206-209
Date: 2013
Type: Document
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Describes how a program, which has proven successful in addressing chronic homelessness for mentally ill populations in urban areas, has been adapted for rural areas of Vermont. Includes examples of the use of telehealth and other technology to help this population increase housing retention rates.
Author(s): Ana Stefancic, Benjamin F. Henwood, Hilary Melton, et al.
Citation: American Journal of Public Health, 103(S2), 206-209
Date: 2013
Type: Document
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Qualitative Analysis of Provider Barriers and Solutions to HIV Testing for Substance Users in a Small, Largely Rural Southern State
Reports on a study, completed in Arkansas, to recognize any challenges to integrating HIV testing with substance abuse treatment for rural drug users from the perceptions of the service providers.
Author(s): Patricia B. Wright, Geoffrey M. Curran, Katharine E. Stewart, Brenda M. Booth
Citation: Journal of Rural Health, 29(4), 2013
Date: 2013
Type: Document
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Reports on a study, completed in Arkansas, to recognize any challenges to integrating HIV testing with substance abuse treatment for rural drug users from the perceptions of the service providers.
Author(s): Patricia B. Wright, Geoffrey M. Curran, Katharine E. Stewart, Brenda M. Booth
Citation: Journal of Rural Health, 29(4), 2013
Date: 2013
Type: Document
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A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Depression and Disease Management Program Delivered by Telephone
Reports on the use of telephone administered psychotherapy as an effective means of treating rural veterans with a medical illness accompanied by depression whose treatment would otherwise be hampered by cost, social stigma, and travel barriers.
Author(s): Arwa Aburizik, Lilian Dindo, Peter J. Kaboli, Mary E. Charlton, Carolyn Turvey
Date: 2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Rural Health Resource Centers
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Reports on the use of telephone administered psychotherapy as an effective means of treating rural veterans with a medical illness accompanied by depression whose treatment would otherwise be hampered by cost, social stigma, and travel barriers.
Author(s): Arwa Aburizik, Lilian Dindo, Peter J. Kaboli, Mary E. Charlton, Carolyn Turvey
Date: 2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Rural Health Resource Centers
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A Practitioner's Guide for Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease
Highlights policy, systems, and environmental improvements and interventions for public health practitioners to advance health equity through community health interventions in rural and urban settings.
Date: 2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Highlights policy, systems, and environmental improvements and interventions for public health practitioners to advance health equity through community health interventions in rural and urban settings.
Date: 2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Medicaid Handbook: Interface with Behavioral Health Services
Provides a basic understanding of the Medicaid program, specifically emphasizing the interplay between Medicaid principles and the provision of behavioral health services in both rural and urban settings.
Date: 2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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Provides a basic understanding of the Medicaid program, specifically emphasizing the interplay between Medicaid principles and the provision of behavioral health services in both rural and urban settings.
Date: 2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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The Development of Videos in Culturally Grounded Drug Prevention for Rural Native Hawaiian Youth
Provides an overview of adapting and validating narrative scripts to be used in videos as part of a culturally grounded drug prevention program for rural indigenous youth.
Author(s): Scott K. Okamoto, Susana Helm, Latoya L. McClain, Ay-Laina Dinson
Citation: Journal of Primary Prevention, 33(5-6), 259-269
Date: 12/2012
Type: Document
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Provides an overview of adapting and validating narrative scripts to be used in videos as part of a culturally grounded drug prevention program for rural indigenous youth.
Author(s): Scott K. Okamoto, Susana Helm, Latoya L. McClain, Ay-Laina Dinson
Citation: Journal of Primary Prevention, 33(5-6), 259-269
Date: 12/2012
Type: Document
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