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Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Health conditions

Resilient Farms, Families, Businesses & Communities: Responding to Stress
Information on stress in agriculture for farmers and rural communities. Covers the impact of stress on the brain and body, stress management, communication, and how to assess and plan the future of a farm business.
Sponsoring organization: University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension
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Community Resilience Estimates
Offers state and county profiles focused on community resilience, the capacity of community members to deal with and recover from a disaster and its related health, social, and economic impacts. Identifies risk factors for households and individuals, such as poverty level, unemployment, language barriers, and health status, and shares the risk factor results by county within each state and by census tract within each county. Also provides access to a supplemental data set focused on social vulnerability and equity.
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Census Bureau
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COVID-19 County Reports
A collection of bimonthly reports and maps showing COVID-19 cases for metropolitan and nonmetro counties and trends in COVID-19 cases over time, from 2020 through March 2023.
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
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Rural COVID Research and Figures
A collection of reports and visualizations examining the impact of COVID-19 on rural areas, including rural hospital and community vulnerability, hot spots, and more.
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research Program
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Farm State of Mind
A collection of resources and information for farmers addressing stress and mental health. Includes information on the American Farm Bureau Federation and National Farmers Union Rural Resilience Training Program, an online training to recognize signs of stress on the farm. Resource directory provides national and state-specific mental health resources, including links to mental health resource guides, health departments, and suicide prevention hotlines in all U.S. states and Puerto Rico.
Sponsoring organization: American Farm Bureau Federation
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Michigan - Substance Use Disorder Project ECHO
Offers a guided practice model to increase workforce capacity and meet the needs of patients by providing best-practice specialty care training to primary care doctors, nurses, and other clinicians through videoconferencing to address the challenges facing providers in the provision of substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery services.
Sponsoring organization: Saginaw Valley State University
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Physician Support Line
Free and confidential peer support for physicians to discuss immediate life stressors with volunteer psychiatrist colleagues. Available Monday-Friday from 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM ET.
1-888-409-0141
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UMASH - COVID-19 Resources
Presents resources and information pertaining to COVID-19 for farmers and farmworkers in the Midwest. Features national and state-level information for Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and North and South Dakota. Includes resources for Spanish speakers.
Sponsoring organization: Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center
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CMS Open Door Forum Podcast and Transcripts
Provides audio recordings and transcripts of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Door Forum calls since January 2020, including the Rural Health Open Door Forums.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Idaho Project ECHO
A series of educational video conference sessions between clinicians in remote and underserved communities in Idaho and expert specialists. Topics covered include mental and behavioral health; opioids, pain, and substance use disorders; autism, COVID-19, and more.
Additional links: Schedule
Sponsoring organizations: University of Idaho, WWAMI Medical Education Program
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