Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention
Introducing the New NCR-Stat: Small Business Dataset
A recorded webinar that provides an overview of the NCR-Stat: Small Business dataset that examines the intersection of small businesses, community and economic benefits, and rural health in the North Central Region. Data set focuses on demographic information of small businesses, community health and wellness, workforce development, and more. Transcript available below description.
Author(s): Maria I. Marshall, Renee Wiatt
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organization: North Central Regional Center for Rural Development
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A recorded webinar that provides an overview of the NCR-Stat: Small Business dataset that examines the intersection of small businesses, community and economic benefits, and rural health in the North Central Region. Data set focuses on demographic information of small businesses, community health and wellness, workforce development, and more. Transcript available below description.
Author(s): Maria I. Marshall, Renee Wiatt
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organization: North Central Regional Center for Rural Development
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Science by the Slice: Rural Community Health Science, Policy, and the Future: Episode 1
Video podcast episode highlighting the 2024 State of the Science Meeting from the Southeastern Coastal Center for Agricultural Health and Safety featuring 3 speakers at the meeting. Discusses culturally sensitive health interventions, solutions to healthcare gaps for rural areas, health for farmworkers, and the role of Cooperative Extension while highlighting examples in Florida and Mississippi. Transcript in the video description.
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organization: Southeastern Coastal Center for Agricultural Health and Safety
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Video podcast episode highlighting the 2024 State of the Science Meeting from the Southeastern Coastal Center for Agricultural Health and Safety featuring 3 speakers at the meeting. Discusses culturally sensitive health interventions, solutions to healthcare gaps for rural areas, health for farmworkers, and the role of Cooperative Extension while highlighting examples in Florida and Mississippi. Transcript in the video description.
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organization: Southeastern Coastal Center for Agricultural Health and Safety
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Use of Telehealth to Improve Healthcare Access and Outcomes in Surgical Oncology
Explores the role of telehealth in improving healthcare access and outcomes in surgical oncology. Discusses geographic barriers to surgical oncology interventions how telehealth can help mitigate barriers to access. Highlights strategies to improve telehealth access and adoption.
Author(s): Elliot A. Asare, Lauren Cowan, Tracy Onega
Citation: Journal of Surgical Oncology
Date: 08/2024
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Explores the role of telehealth in improving healthcare access and outcomes in surgical oncology. Discusses geographic barriers to surgical oncology interventions how telehealth can help mitigate barriers to access. Highlights strategies to improve telehealth access and adoption.
Author(s): Elliot A. Asare, Lauren Cowan, Tracy Onega
Citation: Journal of Surgical Oncology
Date: 08/2024
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Rural Louisiana Programs Create Healthier Schools
Features two Delta States Rural Development Network grantees working to improve children's health in rural Louisiana schools. A high school program focuses on preventing diabetes and an elementary school program offers nutrition and physical activity opportunities to students.
Author(s): Allee Mead
Citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Features two Delta States Rural Development Network grantees working to improve children's health in rural Louisiana schools. A high school program focuses on preventing diabetes and an elementary school program offers nutrition and physical activity opportunities to students.
Author(s): Allee Mead
Citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Hawaiʻi Strategic Prevention Framework Partnerships for Success: Community Health Improvement Plan
Presents a plan to improve substance use prevention in Hawaiʻi, outlining goals and guiding decision-making and project administration. Includes discussion of rural and Native Hawaiian populations affected by substance use and treatment disparities.
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organization: State of Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division (ADAD)
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Presents a plan to improve substance use prevention in Hawaiʻi, outlining goals and guiding decision-making and project administration. Includes discussion of rural and Native Hawaiian populations affected by substance use and treatment disparities.
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organization: State of Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division (ADAD)
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Addressing Depression and Comorbid Health Conditions Through Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in an Integrated Care Setting: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Analyzes the effectiveness of integrating a Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) intervention to improve depressive symptoms and related health conditions for patients in a primary care setting. Analyzes 40 SFBT patients receiving treatment at a rural Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) for health measures such as depression, anxiety, well-being, body mass index (BMI), and blood pressure.
Author(s): Zach W Cooper, Orion Mowbray, Mohammed K. Ali, Leslie C. M. Johnson
Citation: BMC Primary Care, 25, 313
Date: 08/2024
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Analyzes the effectiveness of integrating a Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) intervention to improve depressive symptoms and related health conditions for patients in a primary care setting. Analyzes 40 SFBT patients receiving treatment at a rural Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) for health measures such as depression, anxiety, well-being, body mass index (BMI), and blood pressure.
Author(s): Zach W Cooper, Orion Mowbray, Mohammed K. Ali, Leslie C. M. Johnson
Citation: BMC Primary Care, 25, 313
Date: 08/2024
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Disparities Impact Statement
Guidance for healthcare providers and other healthcare focused organizations to identify and address health disparities among various people groups including rural and tribal communities. Offers a 5 step process for developing an action plan by identifying disparities, defining health equity goals, establishing a health equity strategy, determining organizational needs, and tracking progress.
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Guidance for healthcare providers and other healthcare focused organizations to identify and address health disparities among various people groups including rural and tribal communities. Offers a 5 step process for developing an action plan by identifying disparities, defining health equity goals, establishing a health equity strategy, determining organizational needs, and tracking progress.
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Reducing Asthma Attacks in Disadvantaged School Children with Asthma: Study Protocol for a Type 2 Hybrid Implementation-Effectiveness Trial (Better Asthma Control for Kids, BACK)
Study protocol describing implementation strategy packages for a regionally-tailored, school-based asthma intervention, Better Asthma Control for Kids (BACK), in order to improve asthma control and reduce geographic and socioeconomic disparities in Colorado. Identifies rurality as a contextual factor for study.
Author(s): Amy G. Huebschmann, Nichole M. Wagner, Melanie Gleason, et al.
Citation: Implementation Science, 19, 60
Date: 08/2024
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Study protocol describing implementation strategy packages for a regionally-tailored, school-based asthma intervention, Better Asthma Control for Kids (BACK), in order to improve asthma control and reduce geographic and socioeconomic disparities in Colorado. Identifies rurality as a contextual factor for study.
Author(s): Amy G. Huebschmann, Nichole M. Wagner, Melanie Gleason, et al.
Citation: Implementation Science, 19, 60
Date: 08/2024
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A Scoping Review of Policies to Encourage Breastfeeding, Healthy Eating, and Physical Activity among Rural People and Places in the United States
Scoping review of 122 studies, reports, and theses on breastfeeding, healthy eating, and physical activity policy, systems, and environment change initiatives in rural areas. Analyzes source design, objectives, setting, focus, results, and more. Summarizes research findings and discusses data collection and sharing for rural initiatives.
Author(s): M. Renée Umstattd Meyer, Bailey Houghtaling, Marilyn E. Wende, et al.
Citation: BMC Public Health, 24, 2160
Date: 08/2024
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Scoping review of 122 studies, reports, and theses on breastfeeding, healthy eating, and physical activity policy, systems, and environment change initiatives in rural areas. Analyzes source design, objectives, setting, focus, results, and more. Summarizes research findings and discusses data collection and sharing for rural initiatives.
Author(s): M. Renée Umstattd Meyer, Bailey Houghtaling, Marilyn E. Wende, et al.
Citation: BMC Public Health, 24, 2160
Date: 08/2024
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Notes from the Field: Prevalence of Previous Dengue Virus Infection Among Children and Adolescents Aged 7–16 Years — American Samoa, September–October 2023
Results of a serosurvey of 887 students in American Samoa who were tested for dengue immunoglobulin G. Information on prevalence of previous dengue virus infection among school-age children and adolescents was needed to guide decisions on dengue vaccine implementation.
Author(s): Sandra Kiplagat, Noelle Tavale, Adam Konrote, et al.
Citation: MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report), 73(31), 686-688
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Results of a serosurvey of 887 students in American Samoa who were tested for dengue immunoglobulin G. Information on prevalence of previous dengue virus infection among school-age children and adolescents was needed to guide decisions on dengue vaccine implementation.
Author(s): Sandra Kiplagat, Noelle Tavale, Adam Konrote, et al.
Citation: MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report), 73(31), 686-688
Date: 08/2024
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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