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Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Cancer

Rural Healthy People 2010
Focuses on the top rural health concerns and objectives associated with the Healthy People 2010 focus areas. Volume 1 contains brief overviews of the top ten rural health priority areas, as well as associated models for practice. Volume 2 contains in-depth literature reviews for each of the top rural health priority areas. Volume 3 addresses additional focus areas, with overviews, literature reviews, and accompanying models for practice.
Additional links: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3
Date: 2003
Sponsoring organization: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
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Multilevel Challenges and Adaptations to Patient Navigation Programs for Colorectal Cancer Screening and Follow‐up: Findings from the Accelerating Colorectal Cancer Screening and Follow‐up Through Implementation Science Consortium
Discusses results of interviews with patient navigators and team members from 8 research projects to identify facilitators, barriers, and adaptations for delivering patient navigation services for colorectal cancer screenings. Studied projects included Federally Qualified Health Centers, rurally located health facilities, and Indian Health Service clinics. Notes rural-specific challenges and adaptations for patient navigation.
Author(s): Gloria D. Coronado, Priyanka Gautom, Jennifer L. Schneider, et al.
Citation: Cancer, 131(20), e70121
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Alabama County Health Profiles, 2023
Vital health statistics of Alabama counties for 2023. Includes pregnancies, births, infant mortality, population, mortality by age group, selected causes of death, marriage and divorce, and more. Includes comparisons of selected indicators by race, age, and sex.
Sponsoring organization: Alabama Public Health
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Kansas Cancer Data Dashboard
Provides interactive data on cancer incidence, mortality, screening, risk factors, and survivorship care in Kansas. Includes data breakdowns according to type of cancer, demographic variables, social indicators, and geography, including rural versus urban population density and Kansas region.
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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Louisiana State Health Improvement Plan
Reports on priorities and goals to improve the heath of Louisianans. Features data and discussion of topics including access to care, adverse childhood experiences, drug misuse, chronic health conditions, community factors influencing health, community resilience, birth outcomes, child and adolescent health, and more. Includes parish-level data for select indicators.
Sponsoring organization: Louisiana Department of Health
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Louisiana State Health Assessment
Dashboard providing data on the health of people in Louisiana. Examines demographics, community-level factors influencing health, health behaviors and exposures, and medical conditions. Includes parish-level data breakdowns, with additional comparisons of rural, partially rural, and urban parishes for select indicators.
Sponsoring organization: Louisiana Department of Health
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Iowa Cancer Zones Map
Provides interactive Iowa cancer data on 48 specific zones, made up by combining county data. Includes state versus zone data comparisons, as well as cancer data presented by time period, type of cancer, sex, race/ethnicity, education, poverty, insurance status, and percentage living in a rural area.
Sponsoring organization: Iowa Cancer Registry
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Cancer Risk Factors and Rurality
Analyzes cancer rate data by smoking, healthcare visits, uninsured status, premature mortality, and race and ethnicity. Includes interactive data visualizations comparing metro and nonmetro differences at the county level. Offers a video tutorial for interacting with the data.
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Resource Center
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Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) Public Health Data Portal Dashboards
Gallery of interactive dashboards displaying Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) public health data on topics including cancer, infectious disease, opioid overdose, suicide, emergency medical response, trauma, and more. Dashboards include demographic, year-by-year, and county-by-county data.
Sponsoring organization: Arizona Department of Health Services
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Preventing HPV Cancers in Rural Communities
Provides an overview of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's efforts to promote human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in rural areas. Includes newsletters, upcoming events, meeting recordings, and program action steps. See Education and Training Resources for HPV profiles of selected states, including comparisons of HPV vaccination rates among 13-17 year olds by level of urbanicity.
Sponsoring organization: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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