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Date: Feb 2026
Examines transportation barriers that impact healthcare access and provides actionable strategies to remove barriers. Discusses collaboration with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to change signage policy and install directional signs to a rural Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Analyzes the subsequent impacts on access and cancer screening rates, as well as the importance of collaborating across community agencies.
...Health: State Transportation Policies' Impact on Health Care Access in Virginia's Rural Communities: 2021–2022 --- Examines...
Date: Dec 2018
Compares Indian Health Services (IHS) spending with other federal programs that provide healthcare services, such as the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Medicare, and Medicaid. Looks at the different services provided by each program and the way each program is funded.
...Health Service: Spending Levels and Characteristics of IHS and Three Other Federal Health Care Programs...
Reviewed: Apr 2025
Details the Indian Health Service's (IHS) Community Health Aide Program (CHAP) expansion. Discusses the dental, behavioral, and community health integration program's expansion to rural tribal communities in the lower 48 states.
...Health Aide Program Expansion --- Details the Indian Health Service's (IHS) Community Health Aide Program...
Date: Jul 2023
Policy brief discussing how Medicaid Section 1115 waivers can allow states to modify the social determinants of health in rural areas through pilot programs, delivery system reform, or enhanced benefit packages. Highlights existing Section 1115 waiver programs and recently approved and renewed waivers, as well as challenges related to improving health-related social needs and access to services in rural areas. Offers policy recommendations to improve health equity in rural areas through Medicaid programs.
...Health Association Access · Health disparities · Legislation and regulations · Medicaid · Social determinants of health · Arizona · Arkansas...
Date: Nov 2022
Provides information for Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) regarding billing and payment for virtual communication services as established in the 2019 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule.
...Health Clinics (RHCs) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) --- Provides information for Rural Health Clinics...
Date: Dec 2019
Summarizes research on achieving health equity in preventive services including screening, counseling, medication, and management for cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes in adult patients by identifying the effects of impediments and barriers that create disparities, and the effectiveness of strategies and interventions to reduce them. Study reports barriers that resulted in or explained a disparity in preventive service, and the effectiveness of the clinician-patient relationship, health information technology, and health system intervention. Studies included African American, Hispanic, Korean and Chinese American, and rural and low-income patients.
...management · Diabetes · Health disparities · Health screening · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: Jul 2012
Discusses public health training for primary care physicians in Texas through an online local health authority (LHA) training course and continued education at annual meetings in order to close the gap in the number of counties without a LHA or health district. Includes a model for tracking LHA training for primary care physicians and lists the training core subjects.
...Health, 102(7), e21-e26 07/2012 Health workforce education and training · Physicians · Public health · Texas...
Date: Jan 2026
Report explores healthcare affordability and Indian Health Services (IHS) utilization among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) in rural and urban communities. Highlights rates of patients receiving care at IHS, privately insured, and uninsured in rural and urban communities, among other measures.
...Health Research Center Access · Health disparities · Health insurance · Reimbursement and payment models · Rural-urban differences...
Date: Feb 2022
Examines differences in child health conditions by rural and urban residency. Explores differences in use of preventative dental and medical services by poverty rate, adverse childhood experiences, overweight and obesity, food insecurity, and physical activity.
...Health and Health Care --- Examines differences in child health conditions by rural and urban residency...
Date: Aug 2018
Details the progress North Carolina has made in 6 priority areas outlined in the 2014 Rural Health Action Plan. These include investment in local industries, ensuring that childhood settings promote educational success, encouraging healthy eating and active living, screening for and treating substance abuse and mental health issues, educating people about insurance and safety net options, and creating incentives to support recruitment and retention of providers to underserved areas.
...Health insurance · Health workforce education and training · Health workforce supply and demand · Legislation and regulations...