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Date: 2022
Highlights discussions from a virtual workshop focused on improving cancer diagnosis. Includes information on addressing disparities in diagnosis and access to care, including disparities for rural populations. Features a cancer screening and diagnosis program serving rural Appalachia, describing the challenges faced and strategies used, including the use of a mobile screening unit.
...Health disparities · Health screening · Mobile and episodic healthcare delivery · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: Apr 2025
Examines how rurality and residential segregation impact food and housing insecurity in Medicaid expansion members in Virginia. Analyzes 14,735 individuals in 2019 for food and housing security, with demographic breakdowns by sex, race/ethnicity, age, health status, healthcare usage, income, and urban, suburban, or rural location.
...health status, healthcare usage, income, and urban, suburban, or rural location. --- The Relationship Between Food...
Date: Jul 2025
Examines family physicians (FPs) who provide maternity care and their geographic distribution in the United States. Analyzes maternity care across 325 counties, observing counties where FPs are the only maternity care providers, counties where there are no maternity care providers, and counties with or without hospital obstetric services. Includes discussion on maternity healthcare access disparities in rural areas.
...Health disparities · Health workforce supply and demand · Hospitals · Maternal health and prenatal care · Maternal health...
Date: Aug 2013
Highlights a study on food and nutrition policies in secondary schools drawing on data from the 2008 School Health Profiles principal survey from 28 states. Compares results by urban, suburban, and rural geographic areas.
...Health Profiles principal survey from 28 states. Compares results by urban, suburban, and rural geographic...
Date: Aug 2013
Policy brief highlights an April 2013 meeting in Grand Junction, Colorado, of the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services. Presents the committee's recommendations and analyses of ACA provisions which may have rural implications regarding challenges and innovations in hospice and palliative care in rural and frontier areas.
...Health and Human Services. Presents the committee's recommendations and analyses of ACA provisions which...
Date: Jun 2023
A brief that discusses ways to improve maternal and infant healthcare access, with a focus on Medicaid initiatives, value-based care systems, and leveraging the perinatal workforce.
...Health Officials Access · Children and youth · Health occupations · Maternal health and prenatal care · Maternal health...
Date: Aug 2019
Summarizes a California Department of Health Care Services telehealth policy update for the Medi-Cal fee-for-service program. Highlights key changes related to the definitions, reimbursable services, e-consults, and more.
...Health Care Services telehealth policy update for the Medi-Cal fee-for-service program. Highlights...
Date: 2025
Presents statistics on Americans with disabilities across key social and economic indicators derived from American Community Survey (ACS) data, including employment, educational attainment, health and healthcare, and more. Section 10 presents data on people with disabilities in rural areas, and compares the prevalence of disability, demographic characteristics, employment status, income, and insurance coverage status across metropolitan, micropolitan, and noncore areas.
...health and healthcare, and more. Section 10 presents data on people with disabilities in rural...
Date: Jul 2017
Discusses the projected national total health expenditures and national nursing home expenditures that are affected by the aging population of the U.S. and increased life expectancies. Identifies how nursing homes contribute economically to the community through wages, salaries and benefits.
...health expenditures and national nursing home expenditures that are affected by the aging population of the U.S. and increased...
Date: May 2001
Examines the status of the Medicare program as it relates to rural beneficiaries. Focuses on key policy issues to ensure that rural beneficiaries are treated fairly under a newly designed Medicare program. Discusses rural healthcare finance, access, quality, and workforce. Discusses Medicare reform and makes recommendations.
...Committee on Rural Health and Human Services Access · Health reform · Health workforce · Healthcare quality · Medicare · Policy...