Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention
Eye Health Needs: Preserving the Eyesight of Rural Populations
Explains the importance of vision care in health and describes how rural vision care can be improved to increase quality of life and prevent disability in rural patients. Features a rural Federally Qualified Health Center that has added eye care to its services and a vision van that provides care in underserved areas.
Author(s): Kay Miller Temple
Citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 01/2019
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Explains the importance of vision care in health and describes how rural vision care can be improved to increase quality of life and prevent disability in rural patients. Features a rural Federally Qualified Health Center that has added eye care to its services and a vision van that provides care in underserved areas.
Author(s): Kay Miller Temple
Citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 01/2019
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Telepharmacy Service Brings HIV Preventive to Rural Iowans
Discusses a telepharmacy service in Iowa that works to provide rural residents at risk for HIV infection with the daily preventive medication, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Covers barriers overcome by the program and next steps to address ongoing challenges program participants face.
Author(s): Kate Traynor
Date: 01/2019
Sponsoring organization: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
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Discusses a telepharmacy service in Iowa that works to provide rural residents at risk for HIV infection with the daily preventive medication, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Covers barriers overcome by the program and next steps to address ongoing challenges program participants face.
Author(s): Kate Traynor
Date: 01/2019
Sponsoring organization: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
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Dialysis Transportation: The Intersection of Transportation and Healthcare
Report details the importance of having access to reliable transportation for dialysis patients. Discusses how a lack of reliable transportation affects dialysis patients' access to treatment and quality of life. Highlights challenges faced by rural patients.
Additional links: Read Online
Author(s): Elizabeth Ellis, Sue Knapp, Jason Quan, et al.
Date: 2019
Sponsoring organizations: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Transportation Research Board
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Report details the importance of having access to reliable transportation for dialysis patients. Discusses how a lack of reliable transportation affects dialysis patients' access to treatment and quality of life. Highlights challenges faced by rural patients.
Additional links: Read Online
Author(s): Elizabeth Ellis, Sue Knapp, Jason Quan, et al.
Date: 2019
Sponsoring organizations: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Transportation Research Board
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Evaluating Home-Based Health Coaching from Community Health Representatives for Navajo Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
Reports on the Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment (COPE) program that utilizes community health representatives (CHRs) in the home setting to assist Navajo adults with diabetes management. Discusses CHRs' community-wide health promotion strategies and individualized in-home patient care. Includes results of the program on participant health.
Author(s): Sonya S. Shin, A. Katrina Nelson, Letizia Trevisi, et al.
Date: 2019
Sponsoring organization: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
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Reports on the Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment (COPE) program that utilizes community health representatives (CHRs) in the home setting to assist Navajo adults with diabetes management. Discusses CHRs' community-wide health promotion strategies and individualized in-home patient care. Includes results of the program on participant health.
Author(s): Sonya S. Shin, A. Katrina Nelson, Letizia Trevisi, et al.
Date: 2019
Sponsoring organization: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
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SOAR Impact Report 2019
Annual report from Shaping Our Appalachian Region, a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding job creation, improving quality of life, and enhancing opportunity, innovation, and identity in Appalachian Kentucky. Includes a section on the UNITE Rural Health Opioid Program, a Kentucky River Region initiative begun in January 2019 with the goal of reducing morbidity and mortality related to opioid use disorders.
Date: 2019
Sponsoring organization: Shaping Our Appalachian Region
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Annual report from Shaping Our Appalachian Region, a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding job creation, improving quality of life, and enhancing opportunity, innovation, and identity in Appalachian Kentucky. Includes a section on the UNITE Rural Health Opioid Program, a Kentucky River Region initiative begun in January 2019 with the goal of reducing morbidity and mortality related to opioid use disorders.
Date: 2019
Sponsoring organization: Shaping Our Appalachian Region
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Healthy Eating and Active Living Through an Equity Lens
Describes how three predominantly Black North Carolina communities in rural Appalachia addressed their health disparities and improved quality of life with the establishment of a community garden and the promotion of active living.
Author(s): Laura Gerald
Citation: Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2019
Date: 2019
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Describes how three predominantly Black North Carolina communities in rural Appalachia addressed their health disparities and improved quality of life with the establishment of a community garden and the promotion of active living.
Author(s): Laura Gerald
Citation: Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2019
Date: 2019
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Establishing a Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership in a Rural Community in the Midwest
Reports on a research approach to address health disparities in a rural Midwestern community identified as a "new destination" location for immigrants including Latinos. Describes the creation of a partnership between the University of Iowa (UI) Prevention Research Center (PRC) and the community of Ottumwa, Iowa to develop an intervention to increase the physical activity within the population that lacks access to primary care and has high rates of obesity, diabetes, substance abuse, and mental health issues.
Author(s): Edith A. Parker, Barbara Baquero, Jason Daniel-Ulloa, et al.
Citation: Progress in Community Health Partnership,13(2), 201-208
Date: 2019
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Reports on a research approach to address health disparities in a rural Midwestern community identified as a "new destination" location for immigrants including Latinos. Describes the creation of a partnership between the University of Iowa (UI) Prevention Research Center (PRC) and the community of Ottumwa, Iowa to develop an intervention to increase the physical activity within the population that lacks access to primary care and has high rates of obesity, diabetes, substance abuse, and mental health issues.
Author(s): Edith A. Parker, Barbara Baquero, Jason Daniel-Ulloa, et al.
Citation: Progress in Community Health Partnership,13(2), 201-208
Date: 2019
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Tribal Opioid Response: Healing Our Nations Together - National Strategic Agenda
Addresses the tribal opioid epidemic, with recommendations based on input from tribal policymakers, service providers, and community members. Offers insights from experts, feedback from people with opioid use disorder, and tips for creating a plan to collect and analyze opioid data from local communities.
Date: 2019
Sponsoring organizations: National Indian Health Board, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
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Addresses the tribal opioid epidemic, with recommendations based on input from tribal policymakers, service providers, and community members. Offers insights from experts, feedback from people with opioid use disorder, and tips for creating a plan to collect and analyze opioid data from local communities.
Date: 2019
Sponsoring organizations: National Indian Health Board, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
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Association Between the Food and Physical Activity Environment, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Health Across Maine Counties
Study examining associations between demographic and environmental factors, such as food availability and access to fitness facilities, and prevalence of obesity and poor cardiovascular health (CVH) in the predominantly rural state of Maine. Includes relationships between individual characteristics, like age and income, and risk factors for poor CVH, including smoking, physical inactivity, obesity, poor diet, and diabetes.
Author(s): Allison Briggs, Adam Black, F. Lee Lucas, Andrea Siewers, Kathleen Fairfield
Citation: BMC Public Health, 19(1), 374
Date: 2019
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Study examining associations between demographic and environmental factors, such as food availability and access to fitness facilities, and prevalence of obesity and poor cardiovascular health (CVH) in the predominantly rural state of Maine. Includes relationships between individual characteristics, like age and income, and risk factors for poor CVH, including smoking, physical inactivity, obesity, poor diet, and diabetes.
Author(s): Allison Briggs, Adam Black, F. Lee Lucas, Andrea Siewers, Kathleen Fairfield
Citation: BMC Public Health, 19(1), 374
Date: 2019
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Identification of Barriers, Facilitators and System-Based Implementation Strategies to Increase Teleophthalmology Use for Diabetic Eye Screening in a Rural US Primary Care Clinic: A Qualitative Study
Examines transcripts from interviews with patients and providers at a rural primary care clinic to determine factors that either promote or prevent teleopthalmology use for diabetic eye screening.
Author(s): Yao Liu, Nicholas Zupan, Rebecca Swearingen, et al.
Citation: BMJ Open, 9(2), e022594
Date: 2019
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Examines transcripts from interviews with patients and providers at a rural primary care clinic to determine factors that either promote or prevent teleopthalmology use for diabetic eye screening.
Author(s): Yao Liu, Nicholas Zupan, Rebecca Swearingen, et al.
Citation: BMJ Open, 9(2), e022594
Date: 2019
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