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721. A Place to Thrive: Creating Opportunities to Age Well in North Carolina - Resources
Date: Oct 2023

Reports on North Carolina's aging population, and provides recommendations and strategies for improved health and livability for an aging population. Key topics include social and economic factors affecting older adults, the culture of aging, services and programs that support aging in place, and workforce supporting older adults' needs. Mentions people in rural areas throughout as a disproportionately affected group.

...Health workforce · Home and community-based services · Social determinants of health · Statistics and data · North...

722. Health Panel Comment Letter – Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems Proposed Rule - Resources
Date: Sep 2025

Comments offered in response to a July 17, 2025, proposed rule revising the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems for calendar year 2026. Discusses proposals for the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR), Rural Emergency Hospital Quality Program (REHQR), and Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting (ASCQR) Programs.

...Research Institute Rural Health Panel Healthcare quality · Hospitals · Legislation and regulations · Social determinants of health...

723. Striving for Birth Equity: Family Medicine's Role in Overcoming Disparities in Maternal Morbidity and Mortality - Resources
Date: 2020

Policy position paper examining disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality, and offering recommendations for ways in which family physicians, educators, and policy makers can facilitate and advocate for change. Mentions rural throughout.

...Health disparities · Maternal health and prenatal care · Mortality · Policy · Primary care · Social determinants of health...

724. Addressing Health-Related Social Needs to Improve Rural Health: Ideas to Action - Resources
Date: Sep 2021

Identifies strategies for building community and regional systems of care to better address the social needs of patients and inform the design of community-level rural health transformation initiatives, pilots, or demonstrations in rural Maine. Examines existing literature and evidence from similar initiatives in Vermont, Idaho, and Oregon, and highlights key observations. Describes key components of a demonstration designed to build, implement, and test strategies for aligning health, social service, and other systems in order to advance whole-person care.

...services · Population health · Reimbursement and payment models · Service delivery models · Social determinants of health · Maine...

725. Patient-Centered Medical Homes: How the Federally Supported Model Minimizes Healthcare Access Disparities for Older Adults in Rural Areas - Resources
Date: Jun 2025

Examines the impact of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model on healthcare access in the southern United States. Utilizes data from 746 older adults to analyze access to healthcare, with breakdowns according to PCMH use, demographics, and rural versus urban location.

...Health disparities · Medical homes · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health · Statistics and data · The South...

726. The Association Between Social Functioning and Health Literacy Among Rural Southeastern African Americans with Hypertension - Resources
Date: May 2023

Analyzes how the relationship between social support and health literacy may mitigate health outcomes in African American populations in rural Southeastern USA. Utilizes data from the Southeastern Collaboration to Improve Blood Pressure Control trial to examine social isolation and health literacy in 1,221 individuals, with data further broken down by age, sex, education, income, cognition impairments, marriage status, and study site.

...Health Promotion International, 38 05/2023 Cardiovascular disease · Social connectedness · Social determinants of health · Statistics and data...

727. The Ecology of Economic Distress and Life Expectancy - Resources
Date: Jul 2024

Examines the relationship between life expectancy (LE) and county-level indicators such as race, rural status, and economic prosperity. Examines 2000-2019 data for LE, with rural, suburban, and metro comparisons across racial and economic groups, with economic distress calculated according to unemployment, housing, poverty, education, and other social indicators.

...International Journal of Public Health, 69 07/2024 Mortality · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health...

728. Kansas Innovation Fund - Funding
Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis

Funding to support innovative projects that address health in Kansas.

...program website . Health conditions · Healthcare needs and services · Human services · Social determinants of health · Kansas...

729. Social Needs Screening among Non-Federal Acute Care Hospitals, 2022 - Resources
Date: Jul 2023

Examines the extent to which non-federal acute care hospitals collect and receive data on individual patients' health-related social needs using data from the 2022 American Hospital Association (AHA) Information Technology (IT) supplement. Describes how these data are used to promote patient and population health. Includes data on the routine collection of social needs and use of structured screening tools or diagnosis codes by hospital characteristics, including rural location, Critical Access Hospital designation, and size.

...Hospitals · Health information technology · Hospitals · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health · Statistics and data...

730. Meeting the Behavioral Health Needs of Farm Families in Times of Economic Distress - Resources
Date: Feb 2022

Offers strategies to support development and integration of behavioral health services across healthcare and community-based organizations, including leveraging payment systems to support coordinated care for farm families and aligning federal grant programs to address mental health and substance use disorders. Features recommendations including integrating primary and behavioral care for initial treatment of mental health and substance misuse concerns, expanding the workforce to improve rural behavioral health services capacity, increasing telehealth services, and expanding private and public insurance coverage.

...health · Policy · Primary care · Reimbursement and payment models · Social determinants of health · Substance use and misuse...