This website is being reviewed for updates. Some information is offline. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Skip to main content
Rural Health Information Hub

Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Poverty

Medicaid & CHIP Participation Among Rural & Urban Children
Reports on 2006-2007 Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) participation rates for rural and urban children, including data by region, poverty level, and age.
Author(s): Jennifer King, Rebecca Slifkin, Mark Holmes
Date: 07/2009
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research Program
view details
Poor Birth Outcome in the Rural United States: 1985-1987 to 1995-1997
Reports on rural/urban differences in poor birth outcome and inadequate prenatal care between 1985 and 1997. Examines outcomes for residents of more remote rural areas and residents of rural persistent poverty counties.
Additional links: Project Summary
Author(s): Eric H. Larson, Elise Murowchick, L. Gary Hart
Date: 02/2008
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
view details
National Advisory Committee on Rural Health & Human Services Meeting Minutes, Madison, Wisconsin, September 12-14, 2007
Minutes from the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services' 57th meeting, which included discussions on several Wisconsin-specific healthcare and healthcare workforce issues, welfare reform, state Medicaid waivers, Toyota Motor Company's North American health initiatives, child poverty, and more.
Date: 09/2007
Sponsoring organization: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
view details
A Community Based Framework for Understanding Problems and Exploring Alternatives: Connecting Underemployment, Poverty and Access to Health Care in the Mississippi Delta
Discusses community-based research as a framework for better understanding views of poverty and exploring alternative intervention programs that are innovative and varied. Includes examples of regional assets, barriers, social and health issues identified in the Mississippi Delta region using this research approach.
Author(s): John J. Green, Albert B. Nylander
Date: 02/2006
Sponsoring organization: Rural Policy Research Institute
view details
Annual Disability Statistics Collection: Build Your Own Statistics - County Level Statistics

Dashboard presenting American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year data for county-level statistics on disability prevalence as well as employment, poverty, insurance, and education statistics for people with disabilities.


Sponsoring organization: Center for Research on Disability
view details
Missouri Indicator Dashboards
Provides regional and county-level interactive data on Missouri's health workforce, community demographics, and citizen health status. Includes regional geographic profiles that provide a combination of indicator data, including Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs).
Sponsoring organization: Missouri Health Care Workforce Project
view details
Kansas Regional Data Portal
Provides county, regional, and statewide data on issues such as demographics, housing, business and industry, healthcare, quality of life, infrastructure, and natural resources. Includes information on healthcare workforce statistics, Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), number of hospital beds, income and poverty, education levels, broadband, and more.
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Institute for Policy & Social Research
view details
Diabetes Risk Factors and Rurality
Offers analysis of diabetes rate data by age, uninsured status, access to primary care, child poverty, and high school diploma. 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
view details
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
view details
Tennessee Multi-Sector Plan for Aging Data Dashboard
Dashboard providing county- and state-level data on aging in Tennessee. Presents health and demographic data of adults over age 65 in Tennessee, including data on diabetes, cancer, substance abuse, COPD, cardiovascular conditions, and more. Includes a map of healthcare facility locations.
Sponsoring organization: East Tennessee State University Center for Rural Health Research
view details