Kansas Resources

Kansas Prenatal Care Report, 2024
Examines the adequacy of prenatal care for women in Kansas in 2024. Utilizes the Adequacy of Prenatal Care Utilization (APNCU) index to provide county-level and peer group statistics on prenatal care, with further data breakdowns by age, insurance type, and frontier, rural, semi-urban, or urban location. Includes a map showing county rate of receiving inadequate prenatal care.
Author(s): Cathryn Savage
Date: 02/2026
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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'No Safe Level of Lead': How Mining Towns Are Reducing the Risk of Lead Exposure – And What Other Rural Communities Can Learn from Them
Highlights efforts in rural Idaho and Kansas to raise awareness of the dangers of lead exposure. Discusses health screenings and follow-up care, as well as outreach activities and educational materials.
Author(s): Gretel Kauffman
Citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 02/2026
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Kansas Rural Primary Care Workforce
Offers maps and tables of the primary care workforce distribution in Kansas in 2025. Includes county-level data and rural and urban comparisons.
Author(s): S.C. Woolcock, C.H.A. Andrilla, L.A. Garberson, J.M. Graves
Date: 02/2026
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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Kansas Rural Behavioral Health Workforce
Offers maps and tables of the supply and distribution of behavioral health clinicians in Kansas in 2025. Includes county-level data and rural and urban comparisons.
Author(s): S.C. Woolcock, C.H.A. Andrilla, L.A. Garberson, J.M. Graves
Date: 02/2026
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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Kansas Rural Obstetrical Workforce
Offers maps and tables of the obstetricians and advanced practice midwives workforce distribution in Kansas in 2025. Includes county-level data and rural and urban comparisons.
Author(s): S.C. Woolcock, C.H.A. Andrilla, L.A. Garberson, J.M. Graves
Date: 02/2026
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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Information Hub: Digital Divide in Kansas
Presents information on the digital divide in Kansas as well as programs meant to improve digital access in rural and underserved communities. Includes a county-level map that shows households without a computer or broadband and corresponding demographic breakdowns available by county.
Author(s): Kaci Cink, Wen-Chieh Lin
Date: 02/2026
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Health Institute
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Kansas Infant Mortality and Stillbirth Report, 2024
Reports on infant mortality rates in Kansas, with information broken down by demographics, county, and frontier, rural, densely settled rural, semi-urban, or urban location.
Author(s): Inkyung Cha
Date: 01/2026
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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Adolescent and Teenage Pregnancy Report Kansas, 2024
Summarizes research examining teen pregnancy in Kansas from 2020-2024. Includes frontier, rural, densely-settled rural, semi-urban, and urban comparisons as well as county-level information on pregnancy and birth rates, with data broken down by age and year.
Author(s): Cathryn Savage
Date: 01/2026
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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Rural Health Transformation Program State Initiatives Summaries: Rural Healthy Aging Program Initiatives
Highlights activities supporting rural aging in state Rural Health Transformation Programs applications.
Date: 01/2026
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
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Kansas State Board of Nursing Fiscal Year 2025 Annual Report
Provides information on Kansas nurse licensing, education programs, continuing education, legal issues, and more. Includes data on licensing by county.
Date: 01/2026
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