Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention
Learning Module: Rural and Small Town Transportation
Describes transportation issues in rural America, addressing transportation-related impacts on health, safety, poverty, and economic opportunity. Offers resources for planning, policy, and community partnerships, with links to sample programs and documents.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Shared-Use Mobility Center
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Describes transportation issues in rural America, addressing transportation-related impacts on health, safety, poverty, and economic opportunity. Offers resources for planning, policy, and community partnerships, with links to sample programs and documents.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Shared-Use Mobility Center
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Mental Health America Warmlines
Presents a list of mental health warmlines, or non-emergency support lines, available throughout the country. Highlights the number for the state, or region within the state, and the hours of operation.
Type: Hotline
Sponsoring organization: Mental Health America
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Presents a list of mental health warmlines, or non-emergency support lines, available throughout the country. Highlights the number for the state, or region within the state, and the hours of operation.
Type: Hotline
Sponsoring organization: Mental Health America
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Rural Early Childhood Health Promotion Toolkit
Resources and best practices to help rural communities develop early childhood health promotion programs. Identifies program models and examples, and discusses implementation, evaluation, sustainability, and dissemination of program results.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Resources and best practices to help rural communities develop early childhood health promotion programs. Identifies program models and examples, and discusses implementation, evaluation, sustainability, and dissemination of program results.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Vaccine Central
Resources to support health departments, community-based organizations, and others with vaccine efforts among refugee, immigrant, and migrant communities.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants
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Resources to support health departments, community-based organizations, and others with vaccine efforts among refugee, immigrant, and migrant communities.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants
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Customizable Communications Toolkit
Provides a catalog of internal and external communications resources to support rural hospitals and clinics. Includes customizable print and digital resources, scripts, and talking points to promote community trust, preventive screenings, swing bed services, telehealth, and pulmonary rehabilitation.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organizations: Legato Healthcare Marketing, National Rural Health Resource Center
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Provides a catalog of internal and external communications resources to support rural hospitals and clinics. Includes customizable print and digital resources, scripts, and talking points to promote community trust, preventive screenings, swing bed services, telehealth, and pulmonary rehabilitation.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organizations: Legato Healthcare Marketing, National Rural Health Resource Center
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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.
Type: Calendar/Event List
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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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.
Type: Calendar/Event List
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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PLACES: Local Data for Better Health
Interactive mapping system providing chronic disease related data at the county, place, census tract, and ZIP code level. Covers measures related to health status, health outcomes, prevention, health risk behaviors, and social determinants of health.
Additional links: Compare Measures, Interactive Map, PLACES Data Portal
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Interactive mapping system providing chronic disease related data at the county, place, census tract, and ZIP code level. Covers measures related to health status, health outcomes, prevention, health risk behaviors, and social determinants of health.
Additional links: Compare Measures, Interactive Map, PLACES Data Portal
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Rural Community Toolbox: Funding & Resources for Rural Communities to Address Substance Abuse
Provides access to federal funding programs and information resources related to substance use disorder (SUD), including opioid use disorder (OUD), to help rural communities and stakeholders address SUD, OUD, and issues related to substance misuse in their communities. Features an overdose mapping tool that provides state- and county-level data on overdose deaths.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organizations: Bureau of Justice Assistance, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Justice
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Provides access to federal funding programs and information resources related to substance use disorder (SUD), including opioid use disorder (OUD), to help rural communities and stakeholders address SUD, OUD, and issues related to substance misuse in their communities. Features an overdose mapping tool that provides state- and county-level data on overdose deaths.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organizations: Bureau of Justice Assistance, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Justice
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Tribal Opioid Response Resource Toolkit
Offers a variety of materials, tools, resources and links to support tribes in their efforts to combat the opioid epidemic within their tribal communities.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: National Indian Health Board
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Offers a variety of materials, tools, resources and links to support tribes in their efforts to combat the opioid epidemic within their tribal communities.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: National Indian Health Board
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Tennessee Department of Health - Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
Resources and information on Tennessee's response to COVID-19, including frequently asked questions, resources for healthcare providers, health alerts, and community support.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Tennessee Department of Health
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Resources and information on Tennessee's response to COVID-19, including frequently asked questions, resources for healthcare providers, health alerts, and community support.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Tennessee Department of Health
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