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Date: Apr 2023
Describes ways in which communities can use funding to build community health worker programs in order to reduce health disparities. Highlights the University of Kansas Medical Center's Local Health Equity Action Teams initiative in 10 counties, 6 of which are rural.
...State and Territorial Health Officials Access · Community health workers · Funding · Health disparities · Infectious diseases · Kansas...
Date: Jun 2015
Reports on the prevailing public health issues occurring in U.S.-Mexico border populations. Identifies an agenda focused on health promotion and disease prevention, and develops a strategy for implementing a coordinated public health response at binational, state and local levels.
...Health Commission Access · Health conditions · Policy · Poverty · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
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...
Date: Feb 2025
Reports on health needs and health-related priorities for the state of Hawaii. Highlighted topics include financial security, food security, mental and behavioral health, housing, access to care, and more. Discusses rural-specific challenges throughout.
...Health Needs Assessment: 2024 Update --- Reports on health needs and health-related priorities for the state...
Reviewed: Apr 2026
Reports on the health status of Oklahoma's citizens. Presents interactive datasets with health indicators, counties, and demographic factors on an A-F grade scale. Bases grades on the national average for the selected indicators. Covers mortality, health behaviors, risk factors, and socioeconomic factors, among other topics.
...Oklahoma State Department of Health County-by-county data · Health disparities · Mortality · Public health · Oklahoma...
Date: Jan 2019
Reports on the Primary Care Capacity Project, which expanded primary care access to Gulf Coast counties through community health centers as part of the Deepwater Horizon settlement. Addresses initiatives targeting expanded access for rural areas, a pilot Community-Centered Health Home (CCHH) model intended to address social determinants of health through community collaborations, and more.
...health through community collaborations, and more. 01/2019 Louisiana Public Health Institute Access · Federally Qualified Health...
Deadline: Apr 1, 2025
Funding for projects in Region 7 (northeastern U.S.) that improve health literacy; increase the ability of the general public to find and use health information; and improve health professionals' access to, awareness of, and skills for locating high quality biomedical and health information.
...health literacy; increase the ability of the general public to find and use health information...
Date: Jun 2018
Identifies four target areas to improve child health: Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) delivery and payment reforms; consumer digital health; precision medicine in pediatrics; and addiction and neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). Provides recommendations to further develop child health research and policy. Discusses removing barriers and expanding access to telehealth services to deliver care to children living in rural areas, and the rural incidence of NAS.
...Health Policy --- Identifies four target areas to improve child health: Medicaid and the Children's Health...
Date: Jul 2022
Profiles Eagle Valley Behavioral Health (EVBH), a nonprofit and community mental health center (CMHC) developed to lead community collaboration working to ensure access to high-quality behavioral healthcare in Eagle County, Colorado. Discusses EVBH's collaboration with Building Hope Summit County, a community-wide initiative in a neighboring county focused on suicide prevention efforts. Describes how these initiatives were able to shape local policy, expand the local behavioral health workforce, fund their efforts, and identify and fill gaps in care.
...Access · Behavioral health · Behavioral health workforce · Fundraising · Policy · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Colorado...
Date: 2001
Provides comprehensive coverage of issues relevant to the mental health of different racial and ethnic groups. Includes some information specific to rural areas.
...Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Access · Culture · Health disparities · Mental health · Tribal communities...