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Date: Mar 2024
Examines how issues such as rural identity, attitudes toward rurality, and health beliefs impact rural cancer survivors' well-being. Utilizes survey data from 188 cancer survivors to discuss the relationship between sociocultural factors and quality of life, cancer fatalism, cancer information overload, rural identity and perceptions, and more.
...Health 03/2024 Cancer · Culture · Mental health · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Reviewed: Nov 14, 2025
I-REACH connects veterans in rural Michigan to healthcare services and other programs and helps healthcare facilities and providers become more veteran-friendly.
...Health Policy (FORHP) Rural Veterans Health Access Program grant and received renewed 2025 funding . For healthcare...
Date: Nov 2017
Discusses opportunities to use telehealth to improve healthcare access and delivery to vulnerable rural and urban communities. Includes recommendations from the American Hospital Association Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities and details the benefits of telehealth services and potential policy solutions such as reimbursement, interaction of state and federal laws, broadband access, and federal research.
...Health Care Services: Virtual Care Strategies --- Discusses opportunities to use telehealth to improve healthcare access...
Date: Sep 2022
Presents a study on the disparities in cognitive health older adults in rural versus urban populations. Breaks down data by age, marital status, and education, among other measures. Explores how depopulation correlates with cognitive functioning and compares the effect in rural and urban populations.
...Health, 38(4), 696-704 09/2022 Aging and aging-related services · Elderly population · Health disparities...
Date: Jan 2020
Informational video describing the recent increase in cases of black lung disease, especially among younger miners in central Appalachia. Includes testimonials from former miners who suffer from black lung, and commentary by experts. Intended to increase awareness and to promote participation in the Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program, which provides screenings to diagnose black lung as quickly as possible. Features transcript.
...Health Appalachia · Chronic respiratory conditions · Health screening · Occupational health and safety · Kentucky · Virginia · West Virginia...
Date: Oct 2023
Examines telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic among Medicare beneficiaries with mental illness. Analyzes levels of telemental use by mental health practices who saw patients with schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder the year before the COVID-19 pandemic and during the first pandemic year. Discusses patient outcomes and quality of care as correlated with telemental use, with data broken down according to practice characteristics and patient demographics, including rurality.
...Health Forum, 4(10) 10/2023 COVID-19 · Healthcare quality · Mental health · Mental health conditions · Rural...
Date: May 2021
Describe the prevalence of and risk factors for mental illness among 2,808 active and former coal miners from central Appalachia who received clinical care at Stone Mountain Health Services Black Lung Clinic between 2018-2020. Features statistics with breakdowns by degree of depression, pulmonary risk factors, and length of time spent working as a miner.
...Health screening · Mental health conditions · Occupational health and safety · Statistics and data · Suicide and suicide...
Date: Dec 2016
Policy statement providing recommendations that promote the early development of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children who have been exposed to alcohol and substance abuse during pregnancy or early childhood. Discusses best practices and reviews promising strategies that tribal early childhood programs can use to support children's development and wellness. Also points out health disparities that exist between tribes and the general U.S. population, and uses case studies to show where success has been achieved in reducing the destructive effects of substance abuse.
...Health and Human Services Child welfare · Children and youth · Health disparities · Substance use and misuse...
Date: Mar 2018
Presents a study on the perceived environmental health risk of migrant farmworkers in rural Pennsylvania. Discusses the ways different cultures perceive risk and the socioeconomic status of the participants as factors in the study's conclusions.
...03/2018 Agricultural health and safety · Culture · Environmental health · Farmers and farmworkers · Migrants · Public health · Pennsylvania...
Date: Nov 2017
Provides an overview of the emergency medical center (EMC) model, which would allow struggling hospitals to convert to EMC status and provide emergency and outpatient services, without having to provide inpatient acute care services. Also outlines rural-specific federal policy proposals that seek to create similar hospital designations, with the goal of improving access to and the delivery of care in underserved communities.
...Health Care Services: Emergency Medical Center --- Provides an overview of the emergency medical center (EMC) model...