Website Search Results for: social determinants of health
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Date: Sep 5, 2018
As more federal dollars are directed toward the opioid crisis, three communities use grant funds for treatment and recovery care coordination in court, prisons, and the homes of new moms. - The Rural Monitor
...social service, and legal settings. They were able to take a step back, look at their community, and find a specific subpopulation or a specific way where they could make a difference using an evidence...
Reviewed: Nov 12, 2024
Suggested evaluation measures to include for evaluating rural transportation programs.
...determine the evaluation measures. Baseline and interval measures can help document changes over the course of the program and measure program outcomes. The measures used to evaluate a transportation program will vary depending...
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
...social infrastructure. Since the completion of an expansion project in 2018, Gothenburg Health has been co-located with a YMCA . The facility includes a pool, gymnasium, exercise equipment, yoga room, and conference room — and offers...
Added: Nov 14, 2022
Describes key considerations and approaches for rural communities for recovery from an emergency or disaster.
...health and social services, infrastructure systems, housing, and natural and cultural resources. Other core capabilities are addressed throughout the recovery continuum, including during the planning and response phases. These include planning, public information and warning...
Reviewed: Jun 8, 2022
Patients with chronic respiratory conditions can benefit from rural pulmonary rehabilitation program, like that established in 1989 at Boone County Health Center, Albion, Nebraska.
...determined by spirometry performed either at BCHC the hospital or at the visiting pulmonologist office, who travels from another Nebraska community, a round trip distance of nearly 200 miles. PR program services follow current Centers...
Date: Aug 17, 2022
A partnership between a Federally Qualified Health Center and the local ambulance district in Washington County, Missouri lets chronically ill patients access preventive care from the comfort of home. - The Rural Monitor
...Health Center. "It's whatever works best for that community." Non-Medical and Medical Care As a community paramedic with the MIHN, Buckley sees an average of four to five patients a day, with each...
Date: May 24, 2023
Pivoting from a universal question, "How'd you sleep?" clinical sleep experts, a federal public health agency representative, and Nebraska Extension discussed sleep's impact on rural health and public safety. - The Rural Monitor
...determine their bedtime "seemed to 'blow them away!'" "They'd say, 'What? Nine o'clock? That's just when my social hour gets started!'" Brull said, pointing out that in addition to watching videos, teens...
Added: Nov 14, 2022
Planning, response, and recovery considerations for emergencies and disasters involving radiation and chemical emergencies.
...determine the environmental health impacts by examining air, water, groundwater, soil, vegetation, small animal, and pollinator insect samples. Similarly, the health surveying will examine the human health impact for Mead community members by tracking symptoms...
Date: Sep 7, 2016
Gary Wingrove, President of the Paramedic Foundation, discusses the vital role emergency medical services play in rural communities, and the role community paramedics can fill in a changing healthcare system. - The Rural Monitor
...determine whether you live or die. That's how you know us, but the reality is that we are the FINAL healthcare safety net and the ONLY healthcare provider in most of the towns...
Reviewed: Apr 17, 2023
The Communities that Care Coalition of Massachusetts has found ways to significantly reduce substance abuse among teens in Franklin County and the North Quabbin Region.
...Determination of Need" hospital funding. Results Thirty rural towns in Franklin County and the North Quabbin have benefited from CTC. Since the program's launch in 2002, Franklin County and the North Quabbin Region have...