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821. Oral Health in Rural Communities Overview - Topic Guides
Reviewed: Oct 21, 2025

Information, resources, models, and frequently asked questions related to oral health and oral healthcare access in rural areas.

...health in rural communities? The lack of access to oral healthcare due to cost, insurance coverage, and other social determinants...

822. The Relationship Between Rural Setting and Health: Factors that Influence Individuals With or at Risk of CVD - A Summary of the Literature - Resources
Date: 2019

Describes current literature on rural challenges and opportunities, including cardiovascular risk due to obesity, lack of access to healthcare, workforce shortages, importance of paramedics and community health workers, telehealth and broadband, and impact of the substance use disorder epidemic. Intended to help stakeholders understand the causes of health disparities and to support action to improve the health of rural communities.

...Health workforce supply and demand · Illicit drug use · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Policy · Prescription drug misuse · Social determinants...

823. Using Social Risks to Predict Unplanned Hospital Readmission and Emergency Care Among Hospitalized Veterans - Resources
Date: Feb 2025

Examines the correlation of hospital readmission rates of veterans and social risk. Utilizes 2016-2022 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) data to create a social risk index, focusing on domains such as psychosocial, financial, housing, food insecurity, violence, access to care, neighborhood deprivation, and more. Includes breakdowns of social risk according to sociodemographic variables, VA priority enrollment, hospital readmission, and rural, highly rural, or urban.

...Health Services Research, 60(1) 02/2025 Emergency department and urgent care services · Inpatient care · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants...

824. Accountable Health Communities Model - Two Rural Participants' Experiences - Resources
Date: Nov 2020

Describes how two health systems, Ballard Health and Rocky Mountain Health Plan, implemented the Accountable Health Communities Model to address health-related social needs of rural Medicare, Medicaid, and dual-eligible beneficiaries. Discusses challenges each system faced while implementing the model.

...Health Value Access · Appalachia · Human services · Medicaid · Medicare · Networking and collaboration · Rural-urban differences · Service delivery models · Social determinants...

825. Violence and Abuse in Rural America Overview - Topic Guides
Reviewed: Sep 26, 2025

Features information on violence, abuse, and human trafficking in rural areas. Examines barriers to addressing intimate partner violence, health outcomes related to violence and abuse, strategies for identifying and supporting victims in healthcare settings, impacts on at-risk populations, and effects of adverse childhood experiences, harassment, stalking, and bullying in rural areas.

...Social Determinants of Health for Rural People topic guide. In rural communities, child abuse or neglect...

826. Rural Health Challenges and Opportunities - Resources
Date: May 2023

Presentation slides discussing rural health challenges, including access and affordability, poor health, and underlying factors driving the stress on rural health systems. Outlines policy opportunities to improve affordability and create incentives for improved health.

...Health Policy Analysis Access · Closures of healthcare facilities and services · Healthcare business and finance · Hospitals · Mortality · Policy · Service delivery models · Social determinants...

827. Rural/Urban Differences in Receipt of Governmental Rental Assistance: Relationship to Health and Disability - Resources
Date: 2024

Examines the relationship of housing to health and disability. Utilizes 2021 National Health Interview Survey data to analyze home ownership and rental assistance by rural versus urban location, with further breakdowns by demographics, marital status, education and employment status, self-rated health, region, and disability status.

...Health, 40(2), 394-400 2024 Benefit enrollment and application · Housing and homelessness · People with disabilities · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants...

828. The Death Certificate: A Document to be Honored and Accurate - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Aug 8, 2018

An in-depth look at death certificates shows how this vital statistic document can impact rural healthcare, rural healthcare policy, and public health interventions. - The Rural Monitor

...health by doing this type of research. Specifically, with this project, we believe we'll be providing important information about social determinants...

829. Listening to Rural Stories: Q&A with Alisa Druzba - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Nov 25, 2020

Alisa Druzba, director of the New Hampshire's Office of Rural Health and Primary Care, discusses her journey to becoming a SORH director, the ways her state has been affected by the pandemic, and the favorite parts of her job. - The Rural Monitor

...social determinants of health. The projects that we're working on help CAHs look at small...

830. Self-Assessed Health Status and Obesity Vulnerability in Rural Louisiana: A Cross-Sectional Analysis - Resources
Date: Jun 2023

Examines the self-assessed health of rural residents in Louisiana utilizing the obesity vulnerability index, which factors in sex, race, education, caregiver status, exercise, and grocery store choice as potential risk factors for obesity. Provides 2021 data of residents from 3 rural counties, with obesity vulnerability index indicators broken down by fair, good, or excellent health status.

...health status. Santosh Pathak, Hua Wang, Katherine Seals, Naveen C. Adusumilli, Denise Holston PLoS One, 18(6) 06/2023 Obesity and weight control · Social determinants...