Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Healthcare needs and services
Handbook for EMS Medical Directors
Provides a baseline overview of key roles and responsibilities to assist current and prospective medical directors in performing their duties. Includes rural and volunteer agencies.
Date: 03/2012
Sponsoring organization: Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Provides a baseline overview of key roles and responsibilities to assist current and prospective medical directors in performing their duties. Includes rural and volunteer agencies.
Date: 03/2012
Sponsoring organization: Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Adolescent Alcohol Use: Do Risk and Protective Factors Explain Rural-Urban Differences?
Examines alcohol use among rural and urban adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17. Controls for a broad range of key risk and protective factors and compares rural/urban differences.
Additional links: Policy Brief
Author(s): John A. Gale, Jennifer D. Lenardson, David Lambert, David Hartley
Date: 03/2012
Sponsoring organization: Maine Rural Health Research Center
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Examines alcohol use among rural and urban adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17. Controls for a broad range of key risk and protective factors and compares rural/urban differences.
Additional links: Policy Brief
Author(s): John A. Gale, Jennifer D. Lenardson, David Lambert, David Hartley
Date: 03/2012
Sponsoring organization: Maine Rural Health Research Center
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Primary Care and Public Health: Exploring Integration to Improve Population Health
Provides a detailed portrait for integrating primary healthcare and public health to move the nation toward a more efficient health system. Includes some examples from rural areas.
Additional links: Read Online
Date: 03/2012
Sponsoring organization: Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Provides a detailed portrait for integrating primary healthcare and public health to move the nation toward a more efficient health system. Includes some examples from rural areas.
Additional links: Read Online
Date: 03/2012
Sponsoring organization: Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Delivering Free Healthcare to Rural Central Appalachia Population: The Case of the Health Wagon
Describes the Health Wagon, a full mobile medical clinic delivering free healthcare to those in rural Southwest Virginia in Central Appalachia.
Author(s): Teresa Gardner, Paul Gavaza, Paula Meade, Donna Adkins
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 12(1), 2035
Date: 03/2012
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Describes the Health Wagon, a full mobile medical clinic delivering free healthcare to those in rural Southwest Virginia in Central Appalachia.
Author(s): Teresa Gardner, Paul Gavaza, Paula Meade, Donna Adkins
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 12(1), 2035
Date: 03/2012
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Effect of Outpatient Visits and Discharge Destination on Potentially Preventable Readmissions for Congestive Heart Failure and Bacterial Pneumonia
Explores the relationship between potentially preventable hospital readmissions, discharge destination, time to follow-up care, use of outpatient follow-up care and rural versus urban residence of the patient.
Additional links: Policy Brief
Author(s): Marilyn G. Klug, Kyle Muus
Date: 03/2012
Sponsoring organization: Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center
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Explores the relationship between potentially preventable hospital readmissions, discharge destination, time to follow-up care, use of outpatient follow-up care and rural versus urban residence of the patient.
Additional links: Policy Brief
Author(s): Marilyn G. Klug, Kyle Muus
Date: 03/2012
Sponsoring organization: Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center
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Characteristics of Telemental Health Service Use by American Indian Veterans
Details a study on the use of telemedicine to treat post-traumatic stress disorder among American Indian and Alaska Native veterans. Discusses the use of video conferencing to provide access to care for rural Native veterans seeking mental health services.
Author(s): Dr. Jay H. Shore, Dr. Elizabeth Brooks, Dr. Heather Anderson, et al.
Citation: Psychiatric Services, 63(2), 179-181
Date: 02/2012
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Details a study on the use of telemedicine to treat post-traumatic stress disorder among American Indian and Alaska Native veterans. Discusses the use of video conferencing to provide access to care for rural Native veterans seeking mental health services.
Author(s): Dr. Jay H. Shore, Dr. Elizabeth Brooks, Dr. Heather Anderson, et al.
Citation: Psychiatric Services, 63(2), 179-181
Date: 02/2012
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A Community Prevention Model to Prevent Children from Inhaling and Ingesting Harmful Legal Products
Describes the framework of a community prevention model (CPM) to reduce the use of harmful legal products by rural Alaskan children. Figure 1 illustrates the CPM as a two-prong approach focusing on a community mobilization strategy and an environmental strategy in homes, schools, and retail locations. Includes a description of activities and expected outcomes for each CPM strategy.
Author(s): K. W. Johnson, J. W. Grube, K. A. Ogilvie, et al.
Citation: Evaluation and Program Planning, 35(1), 113-123
Date: 02/2012
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Describes the framework of a community prevention model (CPM) to reduce the use of harmful legal products by rural Alaskan children. Figure 1 illustrates the CPM as a two-prong approach focusing on a community mobilization strategy and an environmental strategy in homes, schools, and retail locations. Includes a description of activities and expected outcomes for each CPM strategy.
Author(s): K. W. Johnson, J. W. Grube, K. A. Ogilvie, et al.
Citation: Evaluation and Program Planning, 35(1), 113-123
Date: 02/2012
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Best Practices for Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Strategy Development: A Review of Scientific Methods, Current Practices, and Future Potential
Discusses how public health and non-profit hospitals can work together to assess community health and plan for improvement. Addresses reasons rural hospitals and public health can benefit from working together. Based on a July 2011 public forum convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Author(s): Kevin Barnett
Date: 02/2012
Sponsoring organization: Public Health Institute
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Discusses how public health and non-profit hospitals can work together to assess community health and plan for improvement. Addresses reasons rural hospitals and public health can benefit from working together. Based on a July 2011 public forum convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Author(s): Kevin Barnett
Date: 02/2012
Sponsoring organization: Public Health Institute
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Exploring Opportunities to Strengthen the Rural Health Network Development Planning Grant Program
Reports on the efforts of Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) Networking Planning grantees and provides recommendations for future rural health networks, including on the topics of network planning and sustainability. Focus areas included care coordination, health information technology, behavioral and mental health services, and services for vulnerable populations.
Author(s): Walter Gregg, Adam Hofer, Ira Moscovice
Date: 02/2012
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
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Reports on the efforts of Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) Networking Planning grantees and provides recommendations for future rural health networks, including on the topics of network planning and sustainability. Focus areas included care coordination, health information technology, behavioral and mental health services, and services for vulnerable populations.
Author(s): Walter Gregg, Adam Hofer, Ira Moscovice
Date: 02/2012
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
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Establishing and Maintaining Public Health Infrastructure in Rural Communities
Reports on the availability of public health services in rural communities. Provides recommendations for establishing and maintaining public health infrastructure and services in rural areas. Includes a case study from Maine.
Additional links: Policy Brief
Author(s): Michael Meit, Naomi Hernandez
Date: 02/2012
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
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Reports on the availability of public health services in rural communities. Provides recommendations for establishing and maintaining public health infrastructure and services in rural areas. Includes a case study from Maine.
Additional links: Policy Brief
Author(s): Michael Meit, Naomi Hernandez
Date: 02/2012
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
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