Rural Health
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Lost in the Rush to National Reform: Recommendations to Improve Impact on Behavioral Health Providers in Rural Areas
Highlights the challenges faced by behavioral health agencies, providers, and clients in rural New Mexico via a piloted version of the health home model and presents recommendations to improve access to and quality of services.
Author(s): Rafael Semansky, Cathleen Willging, David Ley, Barbara Rylko-Bauer
Citation: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 23(2), 842-856
Date: 05/2012
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Highlights the challenges faced by behavioral health agencies, providers, and clients in rural New Mexico via a piloted version of the health home model and presents recommendations to improve access to and quality of services.
Author(s): Rafael Semansky, Cathleen Willging, David Ley, Barbara Rylko-Bauer
Citation: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 23(2), 842-856
Date: 05/2012
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Health Center Program: 2011 Grant Award Process Highlighted Need and Special Populations and Merits Evaluation
Examines the actions HRSA has taken to target its grants for new delivery sites to health centers in communities with demonstrated need and the outcome of HRSA's award process in recent years, and the extent to which HRSA-funded health centers collaborate and compete with other health care providers in their service area.
Additional links: Full Report
Date: 05/2012
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
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Examines the actions HRSA has taken to target its grants for new delivery sites to health centers in communities with demonstrated need and the outcome of HRSA's award process in recent years, and the extent to which HRSA-funded health centers collaborate and compete with other health care providers in their service area.
Additional links: Full Report
Date: 05/2012
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
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Childhood Asthma in Rural-Urban Areas
Examines how asthma may be related to rural areas adjacent or non-adjacent to larger population centers, to variation in measures of air quality, to varying levels of agricultural and animal production, and to other characteristics such as obesity, race/ethnicity, or health insurance.
Additional links: Policy Brief
Author(s): Michael Hendryx, Matthew Gurka, Melissa Ahern, Heidi Putman
Date: 05/2012
Sponsoring organization: West Virginia Rural Health Research Center
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Examines how asthma may be related to rural areas adjacent or non-adjacent to larger population centers, to variation in measures of air quality, to varying levels of agricultural and animal production, and to other characteristics such as obesity, race/ethnicity, or health insurance.
Additional links: Policy Brief
Author(s): Michael Hendryx, Matthew Gurka, Melissa Ahern, Heidi Putman
Date: 05/2012
Sponsoring organization: West Virginia Rural Health Research Center
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Flux in Loan Repayment Programs for Healthcare Professionals With States' Budget Cuts and National Health Service Corps Budget Increases
Discusses how states' loan repayment programs are weathering the current economic conditions and competition with the expanding federal National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program.
Author(s): Donald Pathman, Lynda Goldberg, Thomas R. Konrad, Kelly Kerwin, Jennifer Craft Morgan
Date: 05/2012
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research Program
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Discusses how states' loan repayment programs are weathering the current economic conditions and competition with the expanding federal National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program.
Author(s): Donald Pathman, Lynda Goldberg, Thomas R. Konrad, Kelly Kerwin, Jennifer Craft Morgan
Date: 05/2012
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research Program
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The Rural Implications of Geographic Rating of Health Insurance Premiums
Examines how and to what extent states allow health plans to vary premiums by geographic rating area. Discusses strategies that federal and state policymakers might use to help ensure that premium variations based on geography (like rural vs. urban) are justified.
Author(s): Andrew Coburn, Erika Ziller, Zach Croll, Elizabeth Kilbreth
Date: 05/2012
Sponsoring organization: State Health Access Reform Evaluation
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Examines how and to what extent states allow health plans to vary premiums by geographic rating area. Discusses strategies that federal and state policymakers might use to help ensure that premium variations based on geography (like rural vs. urban) are justified.
Author(s): Andrew Coburn, Erika Ziller, Zach Croll, Elizabeth Kilbreth
Date: 05/2012
Sponsoring organization: State Health Access Reform Evaluation
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Implementing a State-wide SBIRT Service in Rural Health Settings: New Mexico SBIRT
Presents a study on the efficacy of a substance use screening, intervention, and referral program in rural primary care settings in New Mexico. Breaks down data by participants age, race, gender, and substance used.
Author(s): Arturo Gonzales, Verner S. Westerberg, Thomas R. Peterson, et al.
Citation: Substance Abuse, 33(2), 114-123
Date: 04/2012
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Presents a study on the efficacy of a substance use screening, intervention, and referral program in rural primary care settings in New Mexico. Breaks down data by participants age, race, gender, and substance used.
Author(s): Arturo Gonzales, Verner S. Westerberg, Thomas R. Peterson, et al.
Citation: Substance Abuse, 33(2), 114-123
Date: 04/2012
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Outcomes of a Weight Loss Intervention among Rural Breast Cancer Survivors
Examines a group weight loss program delivered to obese breast cancer survivors living in rural Kansas using conference call technology. Describes an intervention that includes a reduced calorie prepackaged diet, a gradual increase in physical activity, and weekly group phone sessions.
Author(s): Christie A. Befort, Jennifer R. Klemp, Heather Austin, et al.
Citation: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 132(2), 631-639
Date: 04/2012
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Examines a group weight loss program delivered to obese breast cancer survivors living in rural Kansas using conference call technology. Describes an intervention that includes a reduced calorie prepackaged diet, a gradual increase in physical activity, and weekly group phone sessions.
Author(s): Christie A. Befort, Jennifer R. Klemp, Heather Austin, et al.
Citation: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 132(2), 631-639
Date: 04/2012
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Telefit: Adapting a Multidisciplinary, Tertiary-Care Pediatric Obesity Clinic to Rural Populations
An overview of a tertiary-care hospital, with a pediatric obesity clinic, implementing telemedicine technology in four rural satellite clinics to reach rural children and to assess the impact on patients enrolling and remaining in pediatric obesity treatment.
Author(s): Megan B. Irby, Katherine A. Boles, Christine Jordan, et al.
Citation: Telemedicine Journal and e-Health, 18(3), 247-249
Date: 04/2012
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An overview of a tertiary-care hospital, with a pediatric obesity clinic, implementing telemedicine technology in four rural satellite clinics to reach rural children and to assess the impact on patients enrolling and remaining in pediatric obesity treatment.
Author(s): Megan B. Irby, Katherine A. Boles, Christine Jordan, et al.
Citation: Telemedicine Journal and e-Health, 18(3), 247-249
Date: 04/2012
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Perinatal Mortality and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in a Low-Income Rural Population of Women who Smoke
Describes a study of adverse birth outcomes and perinatal mortality rates of low-income women in rural Missouri. Analyzes resulting data by age at enrollment, race and ethnicity, and rate of smoking before and during pregnancy, among other factors. Discusses the role of socioeconomic status and maternal stress as potential factors in birth outcomes.
Author(s): Jane A. McElroy, Tina Bloom, Kelly Moore, et al.
Citation: Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology, 94(4), 223-229
Date: 04/2012
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Describes a study of adverse birth outcomes and perinatal mortality rates of low-income women in rural Missouri. Analyzes resulting data by age at enrollment, race and ethnicity, and rate of smoking before and during pregnancy, among other factors. Discusses the role of socioeconomic status and maternal stress as potential factors in birth outcomes.
Author(s): Jane A. McElroy, Tina Bloom, Kelly Moore, et al.
Citation: Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology, 94(4), 223-229
Date: 04/2012
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Hospital Stays with Cardiac Stents, 2009
Provides data on hospitalizations involving cardiac stents. Table 1 lists cardiac stent insertion procedures by location of patient residence, for rural and urban areas.
Author(s): David I. Auerbach, Jared Lane Maeda, Claudia Steiner
Date: 04/2012
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Provides data on hospitalizations involving cardiac stents. Table 1 lists cardiac stent insertion procedures by location of patient residence, for rural and urban areas.
Author(s): David I. Auerbach, Jared Lane Maeda, Claudia Steiner
Date: 04/2012
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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