Rural Health
Resources by Type: Document

Empowering Change: Promoting and Expanding Evidence-Based Programs in Rural Communities: A Toolkit for Community-Based Organizations
Toolkit identifying strategies to plan, implement, and sustain evidence-based health promotion programs in rural areas with a focus on the needs of older adults. Highlights partnerships, transportation, technology, and marketing and outreach for their ability to successfully impact health promotion programs.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: National Council on Aging
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Mental Health in Rural America
Fact sheet on USDA Rural Development funding for mental health and substance use disorder treatment in rural communities in fiscal year 2024. Highlights USDA investments in programs serving rural Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: USDA Rural Development
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Toward a Framework to Improve Diversity and Inclusion in Clinical Trials: Proceedings of a Workshop
Summarizes a May 2024 workshop discussing opportunities for increasing racial and ethnic diversity in clinical trials. Report discusses community engagement, data best practices, access to trials in their communities, perspectives of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and cross-sector collaborations. Includes information on community-based research, ethics, and relationship building within tribal communities as well as infrastructure challenges in rural clinical trial site selection.
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Author(s): National Cancer Policy Forum
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Georgia Graduate Medical Education Exit Survey Report: Based on Responses to the 2024 GME Exit Survey
Results of a survey of 937 Georgia graduate medical education (GME) graduates, providing demographics and information on compensation and debt levels, retention rates, practice plans, assessments of the job market, and training experiences. Features statistics on practice location with breakdowns by 5 levels of population density, and percent planning rural practice.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce
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340B Discount Drug Program Reform Policy Principles
Policy position paper on the 340B program. Explores ways in which the program benefits rural health systems and patients, and the impact of restrictions by drug manufacturers on rural safety net providers .
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
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Texas Certified Nurse Aides, 2024
County-level breakdown of the Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) workforce in Texas. Includes number of CNAs along with ratios to the population of each county.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Texas Health and Human Services
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Texas Pharmacy Technicians, 2024
County-level breakdown of the Pharmacy Technician workforce in Texas. Includes number of pharmacy technicians along with ratios to the population of each county.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Texas Health and Human Services
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Texas Pharmacists, 2024
County-level breakdown of the Pharmacist workforce in Texas. Includes number of pharmacists along with ratios to the population of each county.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Texas Health and Human Services
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Texas Physical Therapists, 2024
County-level breakdown of the Physical Therapist (PT) workforce in Texas. Includes number of PTs along with ratios to the population of each county.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Texas Health and Human Services
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Texas Occupational Therapists, 2024
County-level breakdown of the Occupational Therapists (OT) workforce in Texas. Includes number of OTs along with ratios to the population of each county.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Texas Health and Human Services
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