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Date: Jun 12, 2024
While loneliness and social isolation are often viewed as individual problems or even personal failings, there is growing awareness of the structural factors contributing to widespread disconnection. Amid a national "loneliness epidemic," some rural leaders are finding ways to help their neighbors connect. - The Rural Monitor
...food, water, and shelter," according to The U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory on the Health Effects of Social Connection and Community , published in May 2023. But across modern America, in rural and urban communities alike...
Reviewed: Feb 2, 2024
Provides an overview of rural health policy and the issues it addresses. Identifies the key federal agencies, national organizations, and other stakeholders involved in rural health policy. Addresses the steps in the rural health policymaking process, available resources for staying current on policy changes, and the role of researchers and membership organizations in rural health policy.
...security threats. The CDC Office of Rural Health leads the agency's work in rural areas. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administers Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the Health...
Date: Nov 29, 2017
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2017 MMWR Rural Series has featured several reports highlighting rural unintentional injuries as one of the top 5 leading causes of death. What are these "unintentional injuries"? How often are rural residents killed by them? Here's a look at the three leading causes of rural unintentional injuries. - The Rural Monitor
...food. We serve people across the spectrum of life, across a huge spectrum of poisonings." The Panic with a Poisoning: How Poison Control Centers Can Help Those who best understand the value of the nation...
Added: Nov 14, 2022
Describes how the Greenbrier County COVID-19 Task Force in West Virginia responded to the COVID-19 pandemic beginning in March of 2020.
...Security and Emergency Management Agency (GCHSEMA) was another crucial leader in the COVID-19 response and vaccination effort. With GCHD spearheading public health and GCHSEMA directing disaster management, other capacities were made stronger. Other organizations...
Date: Jun 24, 2015
Education, health, employment, and human services have important roles in supporting the well-being of rural children and families. - The Rural Monitor
...food, housing, safety, independence and well-being to sustain a family. These are pieces that make the fabric of well-being and prosperity. Many of us live in areas where these resources are readily available...
Reviewed: Jul 16, 2024
An overview of rural health research, needs assessments, and program evaluations, with tools and resources to support these activities. Discusses the roles each of these activities play in helping rural communities and their partners understand rural health needs and identify effective interventions.
...secure permission before engaging in research, evaluation, or assessment. For more on the relationship between researchers and communities, see What is community-based participatory research (CBPR) and how can it help rural communities and researchers...
Added: Nov 14, 2022
Shares how researchers at the University of Alabama developed 3 projects to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in March of 2020.
...security created by the distance between which people live. Through tools like Map It Zap It, Dr. Feldman's team hoped to raise awareness in Alabama's rural communities of the need for social distancing...
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.
...secure location of the survivor's choosing, known as mobile advocacy. Violence and abuse prevention and response are not the domain of one specific community group. Building partnerships between healthcare organizations and community-based services...
Added: Nov 14, 2022
Shares how the Big Horn Basin Healthcare Coalition (BHB HCC) coordinates emergency response training, in collaboration with other healthcare providers and partners, in 4 remote and frontier Wyoming counties.
...secure so that only necessary personnel had access to the scene. Triage, transportation, and patient transfer were the main roles of the participating healthcare facilities. After-Action First responders on-scene at the exercise transporting...
Reviewed: Jul 18, 2022
Provides resources and information on cancer risks, prevention and screening, access to cancer treatment, and cancer survivorship in rural areas.
...Food topic guide. Alcohol Alcohol consumption has been shown to increase the risk for the following cancer types: Head and neck Esophageal Breast Liver Colorectal Stomach Laryngeal In 2024, lifetime alcohol use rates were higher...