Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Statistics and data
Results of USDA's Food and Nutrition Service-Administered School Food Authority Survey III on Supply Chain Disruption and Student Participation
Analyzes supply chain disruptions impacting school nutrition assistance programs during the 2023-2024 school year. Utilizes survey data from School Food Authorities (SFAs) to examine school meal applications and eligibility, reported supply chain challenges, impacts on school food operations, food and labor costs, student participation, strategies to address supply chain issues, and more. Includes data breakdowns according to SFA size and urban, suburban, or rural location.
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: USDA Food and Nutrition Service
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Analyzes supply chain disruptions impacting school nutrition assistance programs during the 2023-2024 school year. Utilizes survey data from School Food Authorities (SFAs) to examine school meal applications and eligibility, reported supply chain challenges, impacts on school food operations, food and labor costs, student participation, strategies to address supply chain issues, and more. Includes data breakdowns according to SFA size and urban, suburban, or rural location.
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: USDA Food and Nutrition Service
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Use of Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities by Medicare Beneficiaries with Dementia
Describes the sociodemographic and health characteristics of Medicare beneficiaries with and without dementia who use inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs). Examines diagnoses and utilization that precede psychiatric inpatient stays and outcomes following IPF stays, including health care utilization and mortality. Includes data on Medicare IPF patients who reside in rural counties and counties that are entirely or partially in a primary care or mental health Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA).
Author(s): Mark Sorbero, Flora Sheng, Swad Komanduri, Jodi L. Liu
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organizations: HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, RAND Corporation
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Describes the sociodemographic and health characteristics of Medicare beneficiaries with and without dementia who use inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs). Examines diagnoses and utilization that precede psychiatric inpatient stays and outcomes following IPF stays, including health care utilization and mortality. Includes data on Medicare IPF patients who reside in rural counties and counties that are entirely or partially in a primary care or mental health Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA).
Author(s): Mark Sorbero, Flora Sheng, Swad Komanduri, Jodi L. Liu
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organizations: HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, RAND Corporation
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Mammography Among Women Residing in Urban Versus Rural Utah: Breast Cancer Survival
Examines breast cancer screening and mortality among rural and urban Utahns, utilizing Utah Population Database data for breast cancer patients diagnosed from 1998 to 2017 and matched controls. Provides rural-urban comparisons of cancer stage at diagnosis, first-course treatment received, risk of death based on mammograms received in the last 3 years, and other clinical and demographic comparisons.
Author(s): Quinn Tanner, Chun-Pin Chang, Karen Curtin, et al.
Citation: Cancer Medicine, 13(24), e70505
Date: 12/2024
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Examines breast cancer screening and mortality among rural and urban Utahns, utilizing Utah Population Database data for breast cancer patients diagnosed from 1998 to 2017 and matched controls. Provides rural-urban comparisons of cancer stage at diagnosis, first-course treatment received, risk of death based on mammograms received in the last 3 years, and other clinical and demographic comparisons.
Author(s): Quinn Tanner, Chun-Pin Chang, Karen Curtin, et al.
Citation: Cancer Medicine, 13(24), e70505
Date: 12/2024
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Trends in New York Registered Nurse Graduations, 2014-2023
Summarizes New York State's registered nurse (RN) education pipeline and identifies barriers and facilitators to the production of RNs at regional and state levels. Features statistics including percent of active New York RNs working in rural areas.
Author(s): Robert Martiniano, Sage Shirey
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: Center for Health Workforce Studies
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Summarizes New York State's registered nurse (RN) education pipeline and identifies barriers and facilitators to the production of RNs at regional and state levels. Features statistics including percent of active New York RNs working in rural areas.
Author(s): Robert Martiniano, Sage Shirey
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: Center for Health Workforce Studies
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Tribal Epidemiology Centers Public Health Infrastructure (TECPHI) Program Year 1 Progress Report: Addressing Public Health in Indian Country
Reports on the work of the 12 Tribal Epidemiology Centers (TECs) and Network Coordinating Center (NCC) in the first year of the Tribal Epidemiology Centers Public Health Infrastructure (TECPHI) Program according to the TECPHI Program performance measures and evaluation findings.
Additional links: Communications Supplement, Evaluation Supplement, Executive Summary, Workforce Development Supplement
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: Tribal Epidemiology Centers
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Reports on the work of the 12 Tribal Epidemiology Centers (TECs) and Network Coordinating Center (NCC) in the first year of the Tribal Epidemiology Centers Public Health Infrastructure (TECPHI) Program according to the TECPHI Program performance measures and evaluation findings.
Additional links: Communications Supplement, Evaluation Supplement, Executive Summary, Workforce Development Supplement
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: Tribal Epidemiology Centers
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Kansas Annual Summary of Vital Statistics, 2023
Provides comprehensive data on vital events, population demographics, fertility and live births, mortality, and marriages in Kansas in 2023. Includes data breakdowns according to county and frontier, rural, densely-settled rural, semi-urban, or urban location.
Author(s): David Oakley, Christina Smith, Cathryn Savage, Inkyung Cha
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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Provides comprehensive data on vital events, population demographics, fertility and live births, mortality, and marriages in Kansas in 2023. Includes data breakdowns according to county and frontier, rural, densely-settled rural, semi-urban, or urban location.
Author(s): David Oakley, Christina Smith, Cathryn Savage, Inkyung Cha
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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Market Selection Insights for New Mental Healthcare Facilities in Rural Illinois
Analyzes rural areas in Illinois that have an appropriate demand center, traffic flow, and mental healthcare need to locate a new mental healthcare facility. Provides a metro versus nonmetro list of residential mental health and substance use facilities as well as projected finances of a new mental health facility in a nonmetro location.
Author(s): Adee Athiyaman
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs
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Analyzes rural areas in Illinois that have an appropriate demand center, traffic flow, and mental healthcare need to locate a new mental healthcare facility. Provides a metro versus nonmetro list of residential mental health and substance use facilities as well as projected finances of a new mental health facility in a nonmetro location.
Author(s): Adee Athiyaman
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs
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Low Birthweight Rate Differences Associated with Distinct Perinatal Staffing Mixes at Federally Funded Health Centers
Examines associations between health center staffing models and low birthweight (LBW), utilizing 2011-2021 Uniform Data System files of 1,385 health centers. Includes data on rural-urban differences in distribution of hospitals staffing certified nurse midwives (CNMs), obstetricians-gynecologists (OBs), both, or neither.
Author(s): Paula M. Kett, Grace A. Guenther, Marieke S. van Eijk, David G. Patterson, Bianca K. Frogner
Citation: Health Affairs Scholar, 2(12), qxae113
Date: 12/2024
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Examines associations between health center staffing models and low birthweight (LBW), utilizing 2011-2021 Uniform Data System files of 1,385 health centers. Includes data on rural-urban differences in distribution of hospitals staffing certified nurse midwives (CNMs), obstetricians-gynecologists (OBs), both, or neither.
Author(s): Paula M. Kett, Grace A. Guenther, Marieke S. van Eijk, David G. Patterson, Bianca K. Frogner
Citation: Health Affairs Scholar, 2(12), qxae113
Date: 12/2024
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Water Fluoridation in the U.S.: The Federal Role in Policy and Practice
Examines water fluoridation across the United States, with a focus on policy, best practices, dental health impacts, and state-by-state percentages of people using community water systems (CWS) that receive fluoridated water. Discusses water fluoridation barriers in rural and small communities.
Author(s): Josh Michaud, Jennifer Kates, Nambi Ndugga
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: KFF
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Examines water fluoridation across the United States, with a focus on policy, best practices, dental health impacts, and state-by-state percentages of people using community water systems (CWS) that receive fluoridated water. Discusses water fluoridation barriers in rural and small communities.
Author(s): Josh Michaud, Jennifer Kates, Nambi Ndugga
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: KFF
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OHA Director 2024 Statewide Listening Tour
Outlines planned priorities following a 2024 listening tour by the Oregon Health Authority Director in the areas of public health, Medicaid, policy and analytics, and behavioral health. Discusses capturing rural and urban health disparities, alternative payment models for healthcare providers, and rural healthcare facility closures.
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: Oregon Health Authority
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Outlines planned priorities following a 2024 listening tour by the Oregon Health Authority Director in the areas of public health, Medicaid, policy and analytics, and behavioral health. Discusses capturing rural and urban health disparities, alternative payment models for healthcare providers, and rural healthcare facility closures.
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: Oregon Health Authority
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