Website Search Results for: social determinants of health
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Date: Mar 2018
Proceedings of a workshop designed to explore impacts of economic issues, immigration, and racial inequities in healthcare in rural communities and to learn about asset-based approaches to addressing these challenges. Features statistics including average life expectancy at birth from 1969-2009 with breakdowns by metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas, U.S. maps showing levels of poverty and employment, and a chart showing numbers of rural hospital closures from 2005-2017.
...Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Tagged as Access · Community engagement and volunteerism · Health disparities · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants...
Date: Mar 21, 2018
Understanding the opioid problem begins with understanding the science behind pain and how opioids relieve pain. It's also important to understand individuals who might be more at risk of developing opioid use disorder. - The Rural Monitor
...social skills Drug experimentation Illicit drug availability Community poverty Source: NIDA's Science of Addiction According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), “in 2014, an estimated 1.9 million people...
Date: Apr 2018
Focuses on transformation of mobility for older adults in rural areas through innovation in transportation solutions. Describes how mobility restrictions are a social determinant of health, and the ways in which this can adversely impact health and independence for older rural people.
...social determinant of health, and the ways in which this can adversely impact health and independence...
Date: Apr 2018
Describes the health status for the population of New Mexico in rural and urban areas. Provides statistics on multiple health indicators, such as socioeconomic status, maternal and child health, chronic disease, substance use, and injury, among others.
...Health Tagged as Abuse and violence · Access · Children and youth · County-by-county data · Elderly population · Health conditions · Health workforce · Mental health · Mortality · Population health · Social determinants...
Date: Apr 2018
Examines determinants of health, such as environment, housing, public safety, education, employment, income, and access to healthcare, and the ways they affect groups including rural residents. Features policy recommendations, community examples, and possible solutions to health inequities.
...health inequities. Date 04/2018 Type Document Organization Prevention Institute Tagged as Access · Social determinants of health...
Date: Apr 18, 2018
Two healthcare organizations demonstrate how the social determinants of health and social risk assessment can be used as a framework for transforming a rural "health delivery system to a true health system." - The Rural Monitor
...social risk assessments to convert determinants from a buzz phrase to a rural healthcare delivery action item. Social Determinants: Collegiate Version Dr. Cheryl Gaddis, Assistant Professor, Mercer University Understanding where social determinants fit into health...
Date: May 2018
Describes Wagner Community Memorial Hospital – Avera (WCMH-A), a 20-bed Critical Access Hospital (CAH) in Wagner, South Dakota, that works to ensure access to care while addressing the social determinants of health for the populations they serve. Shares strategies and collaborative efforts to address the community's needs through the use of telemedicine, housing and economic development, population health, and access to primary care.
...health, and access to primary care. Date 05/2018 Type Document Organization American Hospital Association Rural Health Services Tagged as Access · Critical Access Hospitals · Housing and homelessness · Population health · Primary care · Social determinants...
Date: May 2018
Outlines challenges facing older people, people with disabilities, and people in areas with few mobility options. Includes a section on funding strategies for rural transit. Describes successful programs, defines mobility as a social determinant of health, and explores approaches for improvement, including new partnerships with healthcare providers and telehealth.
...social determinant of health, and explores approaches for improvement, including new partnerships with healthcare providers...
Date: May 2018
Features a report on the cost-of-living in Pennsylvania by county. Looks at costs of utilities, transportation, and healthcare, among others, while identifying whether or not counties are rural.
...Employment and unemployment · Income · Poverty · Public health · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health · Pennsylvania...
Date: May 2018
Reports on a study of mold and asthma prevalence in two rural, primarily low-income, migrant farmworker communities. Covers housing type, income, occupation, gender, the percent of children and adults with asthma, and mold types and amounts. Compares results to national averages.
...health · Farmers and farmworkers · Hispanic or Latino · Housing and homelessness · Migrants · Social determinants of health...