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Date: Oct 2024
Examines the effectiveness of the Mountain Area Health Education Center's Rural Fellowship program, a 12-month residency program supporting placement and professional development of family medicine physicians and pharmacists in rural communities in western North Carolina. Provides an overview of the Rural Fellowship program and the 6 Ps framework, and evaluates short and long-term retention and program experiences among eight Rural Fellowship participants.
...Health, 24(4), 8791 10/2024 Health workforce education and training · Pharmacy workforce · Physicians · Primary care...
Date: May 2021
Describes how PeaceHealth is promoting COVID-19 vaccines among farmworkers in rural Washington. Discusses the role of community health workers and digital media in educating people about the importance of vaccination.
...health workers · Farmers and farmworkers · Health disparities · Vaccination · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Washington...
Date: Aug 2023
Discusses barriers to vaccine uptake in rural communities. Describes how two community organizations worked to increase vaccinations in rural Alabama and how a network led by the National Center for Farmworker Health built the capacity to distribute COVID-19 vaccines and build vaccine confidence among migrant farmworkers. Identifies state considerations for implementing community-based programs to increase vaccinations in rural areas.
...Networking and collaboration · Public health · Rural-urban differences · Vaccination · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Alabama...
Date: Jan 2024
A policy brief focused on preventing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) through trauma-informed care and strengthening the behavioral healthcare workforce. Discusses strategies to prevent ACEs while providing related data, such as county-level maps showing location of family treatment courts and ratio of population to mental health providers, with discussion specific to rural areas.
...Health Policy Institute of Ohio Abuse and violence · Behavioral health · Behavioral health workforce · Children and youth...
Date: Sep 2015
Investigates the nonclinical factors that motivate patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) to travel greater distances to seek treatment rather than utilize their local hospital service area. Study was based on 2011 individual hospital discharge data and analyzes the odds of local hospitalization and various predictors of travel time, including rural/urban patient location.
...Health Care Travel Among Inpatients Diagnosed With Congestive Heart Failure, Florida, 2011 --- Investigates the nonclinical...
Date: Sep 2024
Examines factors associated with abnormal breast cancer screening outcomes among women living in Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) in Central Texas. Utilizes data of 1,139 women who received breast cancer screenings through the Texas A&M Cancer Screening, Training, Education, and Prevention Program (C-STEP) from 2017 to 2023. Analyzes factors including age, race/ethnicity, level of education, and rural or urban location.
...Health Reports 5(1), 613-623 09/2024 Cancer · Health disparities · Health screening · Rural-urban differences...
Date: Feb 2024
Presents findings from the first year of the implementation of the Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Model, which aims to improve health outcomes for Medicaid-enrolled children with complex physical and behavioral health needs. Provides an overview of the InCK Model and profiles each InCK award recipient's model, community context, approach to assessing beneficiary needs, and alternative payment model design. Identifies models serving rural areas and service gaps in these areas.
...health outcomes for Medicaid-enrolled children with complex physical and behavioral health needs. Provides an overview...
Date: 2020
Examines opioid use and drug-related infectious diseases. Identifies the barriers to integration of opioid use disorder (OUD) and infectious disease services, including barriers faced in rural areas such as workforce shortages. Offers strategies to overcome those barriers. Offers case studies of programs that have successfully integrated services, including programs serving rural areas. Includes policy recommendations.
...Health and Public Health Practice 2020 Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences...
Date: Jun 2021
Describes the challenges of COVID-19 encountered by Bassett Healthcare Network (BHN), a network of 5 hospitals and 24 clinics located in rural upstate New York covering the healthcare needs of 5 counties. Presents four strategies in response to these challenges: expand the capacity of intensive-care; retrain and reposition employees into new roles; adopt a system providing rapid access to care and follow-up; and coordinate communication and decision-making with network administrators, employees, and other healthcare professionals.
...Health System in New York State --- Describes the challenges of COVID-19 encountered by Bassett...
Date: May 2024
Describes a 2 phase study that created a diabetes coaching program and evaluated implementation among agricultural workers with diabetes in the Texas panhandle. Evaluated patient A1C levels and diabetes knowledge to determine the effectiveness of using community health workers to improve diabetes outcomes. Discusses the importance of culturally relevant content and addressing barriers to healthcare access.
...Health, 26, 841-849 05/2024 Access · Community health workers · Culture · Diabetes · Farmers and farmworkers · Statistics...