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Resources by Topic: Infectious diseases

How to Conduct a Rapid Community Assessment: A Guide to Understanding Your Community's Needs Regarding COVID-19 Vaccines
Guide to help healthcare providers and other organizations understand the concerns of their communities related to COVID-19 vaccination and identify strategies to increase vaccination confidence. Includes information on addressing vaccine confidence in rural and tribal communities.
Additional links: Addendum: Considerations for Conducting Rapid Community Assessment in Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Communities, Addendum: Considerations for Conducting Rapid Community Assessment in Tribal Communities
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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COVID-19 Hospital Encounters by Urban-Rural Location of the Hospital by Week From Selected Hospitals
Line chart showing hospitals' percentage of confirmed COVID-19 encounters among all emergency department or inpatient encounters. Includes data from March 2020 through December 2023 for large central and fringe metro areas, medium and small metro areas, and rural areas.
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Statistics
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Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Calls/Webinars
Up-to-date guidance for clinicians from subject matter experts on key emergency preparedness and response topics. Slides and webinar recordings for past COCA calls are available.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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HCUP Summary Trend Tables
Provides a series of data files on monthly hospital utilization data derived from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) State Inpatient Databases (SID) and HCUP State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD) beginning in January 2017. Includes state-by-state data on hospitalizations due to COVID-19, influenza, and other respiratory conditions; normal newborns and deliveries; non-elective stays admitted through emergency departments; and elective inpatient stays. Contains information on urban-rural locations of the hospital and patient residence.
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Building Farm Resilience During COVID-19
A collection of resources to help farmers and farm communities manage financial and emotional stress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Also addresses health and safety for farmers, farmworkers, and customers.
Sponsoring organization: Cornell Small Farms Program
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Project ECHO at Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Offers a telementoring model using video-conferencing technology to connect rural community-based primary care teams in New Hampshire and Vermont with expert providers.
Sponsoring organization: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health
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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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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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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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