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Date: Oct 2021
Presents findings from a survey of rural adults age 40 and over conducted from November 20 to December 18, 2020, addressing challenges rural populations face in maintaining oral health and consistently accessing oral health providers. Also addresses difficulty paying dental bills and delays in seeking care as a result. Presents data on dental visits by health status, income, insurance coverage, and reasons for delaying or forgoing care.
...health and consistently accessing oral health providers. Also addresses difficulty paying dental bills and delays...
Date: Dec 2016
Describes Oregon's current health district landscape and explains the legal role of health districts under Oregon law. Includes background information on the organization and purpose of health districts, and the role they play in maintaining healthcare access for rural areas.
...Health Districts in Oregon --- Describes Oregon's current health district landscape and explains the legal...
Date: May 2018
Policy position brief about new immigrants in rural areas, in terms of healthcare access, health disparities, economic contributions, healthcare facilities and community health workers, and service strategies to benefit immigrants. Includes case studies of immigrants in Minnesota and immigrants employed in the meat-processing industry and in rural farming.
...Health Association Access · Community health workers · Critical Access Hospitals · Farmers and farmworkers · Federally Qualified Health...
Date: May 26, 2026
5 rural eastern Kentucky county health departments have created a collaborative to work on prevention, education, access to resources, and long-term strategies for improving chronic disease outcomes in the area. Source: Kentucky Health News.
...Health conditions · Health disparities · Networking and collaboration · Public health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: Jun 16, 2021
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is a condition that continues to steal rural America's breath. Researchers, philanthropists, and healthcare professionals talk about new rural research efforts and the impact of COVID-19 on COPD. Also discussed is the importance of pulmonary rehabilitation, an impactful treatment long known to improve quality of life and now backed by new research proving it decreases death rates in select patients. - The Rural Monitor
...Health (NIH) Rural Health Interest Group , Punturieri pointed out that the agency's COPD research...
Date: Dec 2015
Bar chart showing the percentage of adults who searched for health information online, comparing rates for those living in metropolitan and nonmetro counties.
...Health Information on the Internet in the Past Year, by Type of Locality - National Health...
Date: Aug 9, 2017
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is number 3 on the cause of death list. In rural America, it's the sole major chronic disease with increasing death rates. In May 2017, the COPD National Action Plan, a "blueprint for a multi-faceted, unified fight against the disease" was released. Rural stakeholders share perspectives of just how rural Americans with COPD might benefit from the plan's rural touchpoints. - The Rural Monitor
...Health Policy. The final plan clustered stakeholders into five main groups: policymakers, researchers, health professionals...
Date: 2023
Details the New Mexico strategic plan to improve primary care by increasing access, improving healthcare quality, implementing financing reforms, promoting workforce sustainability, and integrating behavioral health into primary care. Discusses issues disproportionately represented in rural and frontier areas and provides county-level maps depicting social vulnerability and Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) recipients. Provides models and best practices in primary care with examples specific to rural areas.
...Health workforce · Healthcare business and finance · Healthcare quality · Population health · Primary care · Social determinants of health...
Reviewed: Jan 17, 2024
Learn about the ecological perspective for understanding health behavior at the individual, organizational, community, and national level.
...Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Toolkit --- Learn about the ecological perspective for understanding health behavior...
Added: Sep 14, 2022
Learn about the importance of program evaluation and tips to consider when evaluating programs to improve health literacy in rural areas.
...Health Literacy Programs Evaluation Questions for Health Literacy Programs Evaluation Measures and Tools for Health...