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741. 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 birthweight. 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 birthweight. Recommends that the Centers for Disease...

742. Healthy Adams County - Models & Innovations
Reviewed: Nov 12, 2025

Created to promote community-wide health. Through community task forces, health needs are addressed at a local level.

...Cancer Coalition Promotes education, screening, and early detection of breast cancer. Coalition members have personal...

743. Effective Communication and Consistency in Increasing Rural Vaccination Rates - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Sep 25, 2019

Vaccination rates for rural children and adolescents are lower than for their urban counterparts. A nurse practitioner in Louisiana and a former professor in Kentucky share how they've increased vaccination rates in their communities. - The Rural Monitor

...Cancer Statistics , in 2016 Kentucky had the highest age-adjusted rate of new HPV-associated...

744. 2026 Rural Learning Community Session: Culture in Conversation - Trusted Voices Improving HPV Vaccination (Aug 12, 2026) - Events
Date: Aug 12, 2026

Summary information for the event 2026 Rural Learning Community Session: Culture in Conversation - Trusted Voices Improving HPV Vaccination, sponsored by American Cancer Society, National HPV Vaccination Roundtable.

...Cancer Society, National HPV Vaccination Roundtable Aug 12, 2026 2:00 p.m. Eastern Cancer · Health...

745. On the Road to Early Detection: Woman's Hospital's Mobile Mammography - Resources
Date: Oct 2025

A podcast episode discussing a mobile mammography unit in Louisiana. Discusses differences in rural and urban breast cancer incidence and how a mobile unit increases access to preventive care.

...cancer incidence and how a mobile unit increases access to preventive care. --- On the Road...

746. National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services Meeting Summary, Sacramento, California, April 3-5, 2019 - Resources
Date: Apr 2019

Summarizes the 85th meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services (NACRHHS), which was held in Sacramento, California. Presents an overview of national and state perspectives on the meeting's two areas of focus: rural cancer prevention and control and supportive services for older adults.

...cancer prevention and control and supportive services for older adults. --- National Advisory Committee on Rural...

747. The Breast-Imaging Operations, Practices and Systems Inventory: A Framework to Examine Mammography Facility Effects on Screening in Rural Communities - Resources
Date: 2024

Examines how mammogram facility resources, policies, and practices in metro versus nonmetro Appalachia are related to breast cancer burden and outcomes. Analyzes survey data from 192 sites to observe catchment area mammography services such as levels of staffing and available technology, practices and policies that promote screening, and quality review processes.

...cancer burden and outcomes. Analyzes survey data from 192 sites to observe catchment area mammography...

748. Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) Public Health Data Portal Dashboards - Resources
Reviewed: Dec 2025

Gallery of interactive dashboards displaying Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) public health data on topics including cancer, infectious disease, opioid overdose, suicide, emergency medical response, trauma, and more. Dashboards include demographic, year-by-year, and county-by-county data.

...cancer, infectious disease, opioid overdose, suicide, emergency medical response, trauma, and more. Dashboards include demographic...

749. Preventable Early Deaths in the United States, 2010-2022 - Resources
Date: Apr 2024

Using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Vital Statistics System data, offers state level rural and urban data for preventable deaths in people younger than 80. Death causes include unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease, heart disease, stroke, and cancer.

...cancer. Macarena C. García 04/2024 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Cancer · Cardiovascular disease · Chronic...

750. Potentially Excess Deaths from the Five Leading Causes of Death in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties — United States, 2010–2017 - Resources
Date: Nov 2019

Reports on the 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. Updates a January 2017 report on the same topic, with the new report using a 6-level urban-rural classification scheme and adding additional years and annual percentage change information.

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