Alabama Resources

Internet Access Disparities in Alabama & the Black Belt
Issue brief describing disparities in access to broadband service in Alabama's Black Belt region, comparing access to broadband coverage at rates above 100 Mbps and above 25 Mbps for all counties in the state to the statewide average. Discusses investments in broadband infrastructure in the region and in other rural areas of Alabama, telehealth access during the COVID-19 pandemic, and nationwide efforts to expand broadband coverage.
Author(s): Stephen G. Katsinas, Noel E. Keeney, Emily Jacobs, Emily Grace Corley, Hunter Whann
Date: 10/2020
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: University of Alabama Education Policy Center
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Healthcare: A Key Challenge in Alabama's Black Belt
Issue brief examining healthcare access in Alabama's Black Belt region compared to national trends. Covers hospital beds in relation to population, rural hospital closures, COVID-19 strain, and policy impacts.
Author(s): Emily Jacobs, Hunter Whann, Emily Grace Corley, Jonathan Bowen, Noel Keeney
Date: 10/2020
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: University of Alabama Education Policy Center
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Measurement of Nutrition Environments in Grocery Stores, Convenience Stores, and Restaurants in the Lower Mississippi Delta
Reports on the Delta Food Outlets Study, evaluating the local nutrition environments of pregnant woman and their infants living in rural Lower Mississippi Delta to assess environmental exposures influencing their dietary habits. Study participants had previously participated in a nutrition and physical activity intervention, the Delta Health Sprouts Project.
Author(s): Jessica L. Thomson, Melissa H. Goodman, Alicia S. Landry
Citation: Preventing Chronic Disease, 17
Date: 03/2020
Type: Document
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Alabama Primary Care Physician Workforce, 2020
Discusses distribution of Alabama's primary care physicians and their availability to state residents. Features a county-level map identifying Alabama towns and cities with shortages or adequate supplies of physicians, and statistics on physician need in Alabama population centers, with breakdowns by urban or rural location.
Author(s): William H. Coleman, Kyle Siegrist, Caleb Lenox
Date: 2020
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Alabama Rural Health Association
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HIV Testing in 50 Local Jurisdictions Accounting for the Majority of New HIV Diagnoses and Seven States with Disproportionate Occurrence of HIV in Rural Areas, 2016–2017
Reports on HIV testing in 50 local jurisdictions where most new diagnoses of HIV infection in 2016 and 2017 were found and in 7 states with high rural rates of HIV. Includes rural-urban data on HIV testing for Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.
Author(s): Marc A. Pitasi, Kevin P. Delaney, John T. Brooks, et al.
Citation: MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report), 68(25), 561-567
Date: 06/2019
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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A Picture of the Loss of Rural Obstetrical Service in Alabama 1980 to 2019
County-level maps showing counties offering obstetric service in 1980 and those offering service as of May 2019.
Date: 05/2019
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Alabama Office of Primary Care and Rural Health
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Alabama Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas
County-level map of Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas in Alabama.
Date: 01/2019
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Alabama Office of Primary Care and Rural Health
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Alabama Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas
County-level map of Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) in Alabama.
Date: 08/2018
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Alabama Office of Primary Care and Rural Health
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Promising Practice: Alabama SORH Collaborates with VA to Provide Telehealth Care for Vets
Describes a collaboration between the Alabama State Office of Rural Health and Alabama Veterans Affairs to create and implement a telehealth program aimed at delivering care to rural veterans.
Author(s): Beth Blevins
Date: 06/2018
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health
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Alabama Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas
Map of Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) in Alabama.
Date: 10/2017
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Alabama Office of Primary Care and Rural Health
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