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Date: Aug 2019
Case study focused on application of the proactive office encounter (POE) model to understand how a rural Appalachian Kentucky Federally Qualified Health Center implemented changes to improve delivery of preventive care services, close care gaps, and reduce health disparities among patients.
...08/2019 Appalachia · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Health disparities · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Kentucky...
Date: Nov 20, 2019
Chronic obstructive lung disease, or COPD, is a disease with a stronghold in rural America: almost double the prevalence and double the mortality rates compared to large urban areas. Though it is a condition with no cure, it's a condition that has treatments — and hope — making proper diagnosis by spirometry imperative. - The Rural Monitor
...health system — a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) with six sites — cares for the area...
Date: 2016
Describes progress toward meeting goals to improve health in Western Pacific countries and territories. Features statistics on child mortality, maternal health, immunization rates, incidence of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, and access to clean water and sanitation.
...health in Western Pacific countries and territories. Features statistics on child mortality, maternal health, immunization...
Date: Sep 2022
Reviews recent literature and publicly available data to explore important issues at the nexus of healthcare and local economic vibrancy, and explores the economic implications associated with COVID-19. Includes sections on rural hospitals, the rural healthcare workforce, emergency medical services, insurance, and telehealth. Features statistics with breakdowns by 6 levels of population density and county-level maps showing Health Professional Shortage Areas and rural counties without obstetrical services.
...Health insurance · Health workforce shortage designations · Health workforce supply and demand · Hospitals · Infectious diseases · Maternal...
Date: Nov 2015
Provides an in-depth discussion regarding rural and urban adults under the age of 65 and their perceptions of the affordability of health insurance coverage and health services prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
...Health Research Center Access · Health insurance · Health reform · Poverty · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Date: Jan 2009
Explores the hourly wage differences of allied health care professionals in rural and urban areas. Discusses whether a wage deviation contributes to the health care workforce shortage issues found in rural areas.
...Health Research Program Allied health · Health workforce supply and demand · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Deadline: Oct 15, 2025
Grants for physician-led, community-based, or statewide programs to improve health in Wisconsin through education and outreach.
...health · Child welfare · Health disparities · Health literacy · Healthcare needs and services · Mental health · Physicians · Public...
Date: Nov 2017
Explains cross-sector interventions tested by 5 states - Arizona, Maryland, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas - participating in the Center for Health Care Strategies' Innovations in Childhood Obesity Initiative. Each state profile highlights how Medicaid and public health agencies are using innovative approaches to address childhood obesity in their high-risk communities. The Texas initiative focuses on childhood obesity in the rural, low-income population along the U.S./Mexico border.
...health · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Arizona · Maryland · Oklahoma · Oregon...
Date: Nov 2023
Recording of a November 8, 2023 hearing discussing fentanyl in both Native Hawaiian and American Indian and Alaska Native Communities. Features testimony from Lummi Nation, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota, Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation, and representatives of the behavioral health and public health fields. Discusses the criminal justice system, behavioral health workforce shortages, health impacts of historical trauma, and more. Captions available within the video player.
...health and public health fields. Discusses the criminal justice system, behavioral health workforce shortages, health...
Date: Nov 2020
Analyzes community health centers' utilization of telehealth services by state for the week prior to October 16, 2020. Compares the percentage of health center visits conducted virtually to the proportion of the population of each state that lives in rural areas.
...Health, RCHN Community Health Foundation Federally Qualified Health Centers · Infectious diseases · State-by-state data...