Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Delta Region
A Community Based Framework for Understanding Problems and Exploring Alternatives: Connecting Underemployment, Poverty and Access to Health Care in the Mississippi Delta
Discusses community-based research as a framework for better understanding views of poverty and exploring alternative intervention programs that are innovative and varied. Includes examples of regional assets, barriers, social and health issues identified in the Mississippi Delta region using this research approach.
Author(s): John J. Green, Albert B. Nylander
Date: 02/2006
Sponsoring organization: Rural Policy Research Institute
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Discusses community-based research as a framework for better understanding views of poverty and exploring alternative intervention programs that are innovative and varied. Includes examples of regional assets, barriers, social and health issues identified in the Mississippi Delta region using this research approach.
Author(s): John J. Green, Albert B. Nylander
Date: 02/2006
Sponsoring organization: Rural Policy Research Institute
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Stories of Impact: Mississippi Strategic Health Information Network Expansion Project
Provides an overview of the Jefferson Comprehensive Health Center's Mississippi Strategic Health Information Network Expansion (SHINE) project, which focuses on deploying community health workers (CHWs) to rural and underserved locations in the southwest Mississippi Delta region. Provides feedback on the program and its impact.
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Health Policy Center
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Provides an overview of the Jefferson Comprehensive Health Center's Mississippi Strategic Health Information Network Expansion (SHINE) project, which focuses on deploying community health workers (CHWs) to rural and underserved locations in the southwest Mississippi Delta region. Provides feedback on the program and its impact.
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Health Policy Center
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Cardiovascular & Cancer Rates for the Rural Delta Region
Interactive mapping tool showing 13 health measures for people in Delta Region counties/parishes. Allows users to compare rates by county, rural or urban status, to peer counties, to the national average, to national quartiles, by Health Resources and Services Administration regions, and by states.
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research Program
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Interactive mapping tool showing 13 health measures for people in Delta Region counties/parishes. Allows users to compare rates by county, rural or urban status, to peer counties, to the national average, to national quartiles, by Health Resources and Services Administration regions, and by states.
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research Program
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Exploring Rural and Urban Mortality Differences
Offers a variety of data tables and online tools that display indicators of mortality rates by age, rurality, region, and sex to help researchers examine the impact of rurality on mortality.
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Reform Policy Research Center
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Offers a variety of data tables and online tools that display indicators of mortality rates by age, rurality, region, and sex to help researchers examine the impact of rurality on mortality.
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Reform Policy Research Center
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