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Rural Health Information Hub

Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Population health

North Carolina AHEC Medicaid Managed Care Trainings
Offers tools and coaching on Medicaid care management for North Carolina medical practices. Intended to help practices discover their revenue potential with billing the various care management models, and provides no-cost assistance with education and issue resolution, quality improvement, and clinical workflow redesign.
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Area Health Education Center Program
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Kansas Cancer Data Dashboard
Provides interactive data on cancer incidence, mortality, screening, risk factors, and survivorship care in Kansas. Includes data breakdowns according to type of cancer, demographic variables, social indicators, and geography, including rural versus urban population density and Kansas region.
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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NRHA National Rural Oral Health Initiative
Features resources, information, and best practices for policy makers, educators, and providers on delivering oral healthcare in rural communities. Presents resources on special topics, such as rural veterans oral health, water fluorination, and pediatric oral health, among other topics.
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
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National Rural Adolescent and Child Health ECHO Training Center
Works to ensure children and adolescents in rural and frontier communities have access to pediatric mental and behavioral healthcare. Provides training and technical assistance for programs and providers. Operates under the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Sponsoring organization: American Academy of Pediatrics
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Native Communities: Alcohol Intervention Review (NativeAIR)
Presents an NIH-funded initiative that reviews of evidence-based alcohol interventions for American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Features interventions in three categories: prevention of fetal alcohol disorder, alcohol misuse prevention, and treatment for alcohol used disorder.
Sponsoring organization: National Institutes of Health
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Louisiana State Health Improvement Plan
Reports on priorities and goals to improve the heath of Louisianans. Features data and discussion of topics including access to care, adverse childhood experiences, drug misuse, chronic health conditions, community factors influencing health, community resilience, birth outcomes, child and adolescent health, and more. Includes parish-level data for select indicators.
Sponsoring organization: Louisiana Department of Health
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Louisiana State Health Assessment
Dashboard providing data on the health of people in Louisiana. Examines demographics, community-level factors influencing health, health behaviors and exposures, and medical conditions. Includes parish-level data breakdowns, with additional comparisons of rural, partially rural, and urban parishes for select indicators.
Sponsoring organization: Louisiana Department of Health
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Raising Radon Awareness in Tribal Communities
Provides an overview of radon awareness in tribal areas as a public health issue. Discusses radon's environmental health impacts and features programs, funding, and partnerships supporting tribal radon awareness and response.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Indigenous Health Research Dashboard
Presents an online database of indigenous health research from 2020 to the present. Allows users to view publications in list form or as a data visualization.
Sponsoring organization: Arizona State University
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North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics (SCHS): Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS): 2023 Survey Results
Provides survey data on health behaviors and health status in North Carolina for the year 2023. Covers access to care, exercise, tobacco use, alcohol consumption, immunization, H.I.V./AIDS, long-term COVID effects, disabilities, chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and arthritis, and more. Data comparing responses from rural, suburban, and urban counties can be accessed via data tables for each question asked.
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
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