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Date: Jun 2025
Semi-annual report to Congress from the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC). Covers recommendations related to transitions from pediatric to adult care for Medicaid-covered children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). Also discusses appropriate access to residential behavioral health treatment services for children, findings from MACPAC's analytic work on access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) in Medicaid, an overview on the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, and self-direction for Medicaid home- and community-based services. Includes rural references throughout.
...health care needs (CYSHCN). Also discusses appropriate access to residential behavioral health treatment services for children...
Date: Apr 2024
Brief exploring hospital affiliation with consideration for rural contexts. Discusses impacts on costs of services, quality of care, and system finances. Offers recommended steps when choosing to affiliate and metrics for evaluating success.
...Health System Affiliation --- Brief exploring hospital affiliation with consideration for rural contexts. Discusses impacts on costs...
Date: May 2015
Discusses the challenges rural Alaskan communities face related to installing and maintaining water and sewage treatment facilities, particularly as climate change impacts the region's infrastructure. Discusses the health impacts of a lack of running water and flush toilets. A series reporting on water and sewage treatment in rural Alaska.
...Alaska Public Media Infrastructure · Population health · Public health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Alaska...
Date: 2023
Interactive dashboard provides data on Medicare beneficiaries' telehealth visits from 2019 through 2021. Allows users to explore data by beneficiary characteristics, including age, disability status, urban/rural residence; behavioral health versus non-behavioral health visits; telehealth modality; and the percent of total visits that were via telehealth visits in 2020 by state.
...health versus non-behavioral health visits; telehealth modality; and the percent of total visits that...
Date: Sep 2021
Offers comments in response to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Request for Information on Rural Emergency Hospitals (REH). Addresses the type and scope of services REHs could offer, conditions of participation, collaboration and care coordination, quality measurement, payment, and more.
...Health Panel Comment Letter – Rural Emergency Hospitals (REH) --- Offers comments in response to the Centers...
Date: Aug 2016
Evaluates the suitability of the county Extension to deliver the Living (well through) Intergenerational Fitness and Exercise (LIFE) program, a group-based exercise program for rural residing older adults providing low-cost, effective physical activities to address chronic health conditions and improve health-related quality of life.
...health conditions and improve health-related quality of life. --- Utility of the Living (Well Through...
Date: Jul 2017
Assessment of nutrition environment in 114 stores and 63 restaurants in Guam. Includes statistics on availability of various foods and promotion of healthy choices, with breakdowns by store size and restaurant type.
...Healthful Foods in Stores and Restaurants--Guam, 2015 --- Assessment of nutrition environment in 114 stores...
Date: Aug 2014
Study focused on a nationally representative sample of micropolitan rural, nonmicropolitan rural, and urban adults aged 20-75 years. Compared amounts of time residents in each category spent in physical activities related to leisure, household activities, and transportation, with breakdowns by race/ethnicity, educational attainment, marital status, sex, and country of origin.
...Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003-2006 --- Study focused on a nationally representative sample...
Date: Mar 2017
Examines social, behavioral, and environmental factors to determine the root causes behind significant disparities in infant and childhood mortality in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. Addresses domestic violence, nutrition, tobacco and alcohol use, environmental degradation, unintentional injuries, and more. Provides policy recommendations to tribal and public health agencies.
...Health disparities · Injuries · Maternal health and prenatal care · Mortality · Policy · Population health · Public health · Statistics...
Date: Aug 2024
Provides an overview of cardiovascular disease (CVD), including related adverse health outcomes, risk factors, and prevention and treatment options. Discusses disparities in CVD burden, barriers patients may face in accessing care, and the economic costs of insufficient CVD prevention and treatment. Presents an analysis of 2019 data on the prevalence of CVD, risk factors, complications, and healthcare utilization and spending among fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries by sex, age, race/ethnicity, Medicaid enrollment, and rural/urban residence. Highlights U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) initiatives to address CVD.
...health outcomes, risk factors, and prevention and treatment options. Discusses disparities in CVD burden, barriers...