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Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Health disparities

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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Missouri Oral Health Plan 2020-2025
Provides goals to improve oral health in Missouri, with a focus on access to prevention and emergency care, evidence-based care, developing the oral health workforce, identifying and addressing disparities, influencing policy, and increasing awareness and programming for oral health. Includes strategies specific to rural areas of Missouri.
Sponsoring organizations: Missouri Coalition for Oral Health, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Oral Health State Plan Workgroup
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Leading Health Indicators Infographics
Provides interactive data on 23 Leading Health Indicators (LHIs) from Healthy People 2030, such as health insurance status, violence reduction, health behaviors, mental health, maternal health, food security, substance use, screenings and vaccination, education and employment, oral healthcare use, and more. Users can see health disparity data breakdowns for demographic groups, with select LHIs including metro versus nonmetro comparisons. To access geographic demographic information, choose an LHI category, click "data", and select "geographic location" under "demographic group".
Sponsoring organization: Healthy People
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Stroke Risk Factors and Rurality
Analyzes stroke rate data by high blood pressure, high cholesterol, 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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HDPulse Interventions Portal
Provides access to a collection of evidence-based interventions, study findings, and intervention materials focused on improving minority health and reducing health disparities. Materials can be sorted by demographic, health disparity population group, health conditions studied, community type (rural, suburban, urban, and other), and more.
Sponsoring organization: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
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Build Healthy Places Network: Rural Resources
Provides resources which support community health and health equity through rural community and economic development. Includes a playbook of strategies and case studies for the health partnership model of investment, a primer on rural multi-sector health partnerships, webinars, essays, organization profiles, and more.
Sponsoring organization: Build Healthy Places Network
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State Tobacco-Related Disparities
Dashboard presents state-level data on tobacco use in the form of maps and charts based on a number of demographic categories, such at age, race and ethnicity, income, and urban-rural location, among others. Allows users to narrow data by state and year and compare demographic factors.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Using Project ECHO and Patient Navigation to Improve Care for Cancer Survivors in Rural Areas
Case study describing a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded pilot study to reduce health inequities among rural cancer survivors at National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (NCCCP) sites in Kansas, Montana, Nevada, and South Carolina. Discusses implementation of patient navigation and the Project ECHO telemonitoring platform in order to improve access to care and services.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Health Disparities in American Indian or Alaska Native People
Offers data and statistics on HIV, STDs, viral hepatitis, and tuberculosis diagnoses among American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN). Highlights infection rates among AI/AN populations and compares them to Whites. Presents links to further information.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Tribal Members During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Case study on the Three Fires Cancer Consortium, a training and support program focused on promoting colorectal cancer screening and reducing disparities in tribal communities in Michigan. Includes discussion of patient navigation, cultural appropriateness, and more.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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