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Reviewed: Oct 7, 2025
A multi-component approach of weight-loss support groups and health presentations to help adults in northwest Illinois lose weight and improve their health.
...diabetes, heart disease, and current smoking than the state average. The premature age-adjusted mortality...
Added: May 17, 2021
Learn about the need for maternal health programs in rural communities.
...diabetes, infectious diseases, mental health conditions, intimate partner violence, and more. Recommends strategies and actions...
Added: May 17, 2021
Breastfeeding models with proven effectiveness in rural communities in the U.S.
...diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. Women in rural areas are less likely to initiate breastfeeding than...
Date: Nov 2011
Discusses prevalence of chronic conditions and risk factors among a nationally representative sample of American Indian/Alaska Native women aged 18-44 years and makes comparisons with White women. Includes statistical breakdowns by weight status, physical activity level, cigarette use, and insurance coverage.
...Diabetes · Health insurance · Mental health · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Statistics and data · Tobacco...
Date: May 3, 2017
From over-the-counter medication use, to decisions about personal or family disease treatments, health literacy impacts the most everyday of health decisions. But, distance and internet connectivity challenges make it difficult for rural residents to get health information. To navigate health information gaps, school nurses, newspapers, public libraries, churches, public health departments, and hub-and-spoke academic institutions are working in creative ways. - The Rural Monitor
...diabetes, hypertension, and cholesterol, disparities that can be modified by behaviors, the program is based...
Reviewed: Nov 6, 2025
Community paramedics and community health workers make home visits and provide basic care, home assessments, and other services to rural Missouri patients with chronic illnesses.
...diabetes; the Washington County Ambulance District partners with the Great Mines Health Center (a Federally...
Date: Mar 2021
Identifies Mississippi communities with the greatest unmet healthcare needs and offers recommendations for allocating resources, managing shortage designations, and coordinating the recruitment and retention of healthcare professionals. Includes sections on social determinants of health, Health Professional Shortage Areas, Graduate Medical Education, and workforce development. Features statistics on various diseases and health conditions.
...Diabetes · Graduate medical education · Health disparities · Health workforce shortage designations · Health workforce supply and demand...
Date: Dec 2013
Identifies the scope of practice, supervision, financing, and the workforce standards implemented by states and employers in the development of community health worker (CHW) programs. Four case studies that include rural counties illustrate the challenges and opportunities for integrating CHWs into health systems.
...Diabetes · Health workforce education and training · Home and community-based services · Medicaid · Wellness, health promotion...
A list of common rural terms and the related Rural Health Information Hub topic guide.
...Diabetes, see Chronic Disease in Rural America Disabilities, see Community Supports for Rural Aging in Place...
Date: Sep 2017
Describes how the Seneca Nation of Indians has incorporated its culture into programs and community initiatives. Examples include school and adult Seneca language immersion programs, restoring indigenous plants, cultivating native animals, and the Seneca Strong program to address substance abuse by incorporating prevention and sobriety programming into traditional rites of passage, outdoor skills camps, and powwows. The Seneca Nation of Indians (New York) received the 2017 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Culture of Health Prize.
...Diabetes · Environmental health · Population health · Schools · Substance use and misuse · Tribal communities · Wellness, health promotion...