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641. Third Annual Report: HCIA Disease-Specific Evaluation - Resources
Date: Feb 2017

Findings from the third year for 18 Health Care Innovation Awards Round One projects targeting patient populations with specific diseases. Provides information on program effectiveness based on Medicare and Medicaid claims data and awardee-collected data. Includes projects that serve a variety of rural areas and address conditions such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and chronic pain. Approaches discussed include care coordination, education, and telehealth.

...cancer, cardiovascular disease, and chronic pain. Approaches discussed include care coordination, education, and telehealth. --- Third...

642. Achieving Health Equity in Preventive Services: Evidence Summary - Resources
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.

...cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes in adult patients by identifying the effects of impediments and barriers...

643. Reducing Potentially Excess Deaths from the Five Leading Causes of Death in the Rural United States - Resources
Date: Jan 2017

Reports on rural-urban disparities regarding potentially preventable deaths caused by heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease (CLRD), and stroke for populations less than 80 years of age. Discusses factors impacting the rural-urban gap, and offers suggestions for reducing these disparities and improving health. Updated in a November 2019 report.

...cancer, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease (CLRD), and stroke for populations less than 80 years...

644. National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network - Resources
Reviewed: Oct 2025

Provides access to national, state, and county-level data on environmental health topics, including air quality, heat stress, exposure to pesticides, and other factors. Also includes data on health concerns impacted by the environment, including asthma, COPD, cancer, and heart disease.

...cancer, and heart disease. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Cancer · Cardiovascular disease · Chronic respiratory...

645. Perception of Worry of Harm from Air Pollution: Results From the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) - Resources
Date: Jun 2022

Examines worry of harm from exposure to indoor (IAP) and outdoor (OAP) air pollution in relationship to public health. Analyzes 3,630 participant responses from the Health Information National Trends Survey by sex, age, race/ethnicity, education, income, rurality, and cancer risk. Discusses sociodemographic factors in relation to environmental risk communication and intervention strategies.

...cancer risk. Discusses sociodemographic factors in relation to environmental risk communication and intervention strategies. --- Perception...

646. Higher Risk of Melanoma-Related Deaths for Patients Residing in Rural Counties: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program Study - Resources
Date: Jun 2024

Analyzes the persistence of the rural mortality penalty (RMP) related to melanoma cancer. Utilizes 2000-2019 SEER Research-Plus-17-Registry data to examine disease characteristics, incidence, and mortality rates, with breakdowns by demographics, income, and rural versus urban location.

...cancer. Utilizes 2000-2019 SEER Research-Plus-17-Registry data to examine disease characteristics, incidence...

647. Hearing on Examining Chronic Drug Shortages in the United States - Resources
Date: Feb 2024

Congressional hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives Ways & Means Committee discussing pharmaceutical drug shortages. Discusses cancer care, healthcare quality, the 340B program, supply and demand, reimbursement, and other policy measures. Witnesses include Dr. Stephen Schleicher discussing rural concerns. Captions available in video player.

...cancer care, healthcare quality, the 340B program, supply and demand, reimbursement, and other policy measures...

648. Second Annual Report: HCIA Disease-Specific Evaluation - Resources
Date: Mar 2016

Second annual evaluations of 18 Health Care Innovation Awards Round One projects targeting patient populations with specific diseases. Discusses experiences common across grantees and profiles each project. Includes projects that serve a variety of rural areas and address conditions such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and chronic pain. Approaches discussed include care coordination, education, and telehealth.

...cancer, cardiovascular disease, and chronic pain. Approaches discussed include care coordination, education, and telehealth. --- Second...

649. Diverging Incidence Trends for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Rural and Urban Settings in the United States - Resources
Date: May 2022

A research letter that provides data on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) incidence from 1995 to 2016 in the United States using the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries database. Includes rural versus urban demographic comparisons of those with HCC, further broken down by sex, age, race/ethnicity, geographic region, and poverty level.

...Cancer Registries database. Includes rural versus urban demographic comparisons of those with HCC, further broken...

650. Guidance on PFAS Exposure, Testing, and Clinical Follow-Up - Resources
Date: 2022

Report examining the effects of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which are common in well water in rural areas and have been linked to adverse health effects including cancer, thyroid dysfunction, changes in cholesterol, and reductions in birth weight. Recommends that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and public health departments support clinicians in communities where PFAS contamination has been identified, by creating educational materials on PFAS exposure, potential health effects, the limitations of testing, and the benefits and harms of testing.

...cancer, thyroid dysfunction, changes in cholesterol, and reductions in birth weight. Recommends that the Centers...