Community Vitality and Rural Healthcare – Resources
Selected recent or important resources focusing on Community Vitality and Rural Healthcare.
Models to Estimate the Economic Impact of a Rural Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
Discusses the advantages of using nurse practitioners and physician assistants for the provision of primary care services to meet the workforce challenges in rural settings and how they contribute economically to the community.
Additional links: Summary
Author(s): Fred C. Eilrich, Gerald A. Doeksen, Cheryl F. St. Clair
Date: 08/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Rural Health Works
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Discusses the advantages of using nurse practitioners and physician assistants for the provision of primary care services to meet the workforce challenges in rural settings and how they contribute economically to the community.
Additional links: Summary
Author(s): Fred C. Eilrich, Gerald A. Doeksen, Cheryl F. St. Clair
Date: 08/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Rural Health Works
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Middle-Skill Jobs Remain More Common Among Rural Workers
Explores employment trends among middle-skill jobs including the healthcare sector and the recession's impact on middle-skill workers in rural compared to urban areas.
Author(s): Justin R. Young
Date: 06/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Carsey School of Public Policy
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Explores employment trends among middle-skill jobs including the healthcare sector and the recession's impact on middle-skill workers in rural compared to urban areas.
Author(s): Justin R. Young
Date: 06/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Carsey School of Public Policy
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Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities: Strategies for Advancing Smart Growth, Environmental Justice, and Equitable Development
Identifies strategies that tribal areas, rural communities, suburbs and cities can use to build healthy, sustainable, and inclusive communities. Strategies involve culture, public health, infrastructure, economics, housing, transportation, and schools.
Author(s): Megan McConville, Heather Case, Susan Conbere, et al.
Date: 02/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Identifies strategies that tribal areas, rural communities, suburbs and cities can use to build healthy, sustainable, and inclusive communities. Strategies involve culture, public health, infrastructure, economics, housing, transportation, and schools.
Author(s): Megan McConville, Heather Case, Susan Conbere, et al.
Date: 02/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Regional Resilience: Research and Policy Brief
Summarizes research on disaster resiliency. Provides a framework for assessing current policy and practice as it relates to regional resilience. Includes rural areas.
Author(s): Brian Dabson, Colleen M. Heflin, Kathleen K. Miller
Date: 02/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural Policy Research Institute
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Summarizes research on disaster resiliency. Provides a framework for assessing current policy and practice as it relates to regional resilience. Includes rural areas.
Author(s): Brian Dabson, Colleen M. Heflin, Kathleen K. Miller
Date: 02/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural Policy Research Institute
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The Dynamics of Sustainability: A Primer for Rural Health Organizations
Provides information and case studies on sustainability for rural organizations that are starting new programs. The case studies were identified from a study of rural health organizations that received funding from the Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP).
Date: 02/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
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Provides information and case studies on sustainability for rural organizations that are starting new programs. The case studies were identified from a study of rural health organizations that received funding from the Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP).
Date: 02/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
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State and Local Economic Development Strategies (SLEDS)
Collects, analyzes, and classifies state and territory strategic plans and economic development district (EDD) Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies (CEDS). Allows sorting by state or territory, plan type, agency, economic development category, and focus, including focus on rural communities.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC)
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Collects, analyzes, and classifies state and territory strategic plans and economic development district (EDD) Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies (CEDS). Allows sorting by state or territory, plan type, agency, economic development category, and focus, including focus on rural communities.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC)
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County Economic Status in Appalachia, FY 2024
Map showing levels of economic distress in Appalachian counties based on unemployment rates, income, and poverty levels. Includes interactive map, downloadable maps and data files, and data report.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Appalachian Regional Commission
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Map showing levels of economic distress in Appalachian counties based on unemployment rates, income, and poverty levels. Includes interactive map, downloadable maps and data files, and data report.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Appalachian Regional Commission
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Capital Absorption Framework
Aims to help communities prepare for capital investment by outlining shared priorities, developing deals and projects that achieve the shared priorities, and developing the platforms and relationships to get the deals and projects accomplished.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Center for Community Investment
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Aims to help communities prepare for capital investment by outlining shared priorities, developing deals and projects that achieve the shared priorities, and developing the platforms and relationships to get the deals and projects accomplished.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Center for Community Investment
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Rural Data Gateway
An information and data portal supporting USDA Rural Development (RD) partnerships with rural communities, entrepreneurs, and government by providing access to RD's financial support in rural America. Offers Rural Investment Dashboards highlighting RD programs and investments to help people in vulnerable rural communities access needed resources for housing, infrastructure, local business, and community development. Data also assists users when analyzing RD investment trends in states, counties, and congressional districts.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: USDA Rural Development
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An information and data portal supporting USDA Rural Development (RD) partnerships with rural communities, entrepreneurs, and government by providing access to RD's financial support in rural America. Offers Rural Investment Dashboards highlighting RD programs and investments to help people in vulnerable rural communities access needed resources for housing, infrastructure, local business, and community development. Data also assists users when analyzing RD investment trends in states, counties, and congressional districts.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: USDA Rural Development
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Integrated Rural Strategies Group
Project that offers resources and opportunities to bring funders together to address rural community needs, particularly related to rural organizing and justice-advancing efforts. Offers information resources, dialogues, and blog posts related to rural initiatives and partnerships.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Neighborhood Funders Group
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Project that offers resources and opportunities to bring funders together to address rural community needs, particularly related to rural organizing and justice-advancing efforts. Offers information resources, dialogues, and blog posts related to rural initiatives and partnerships.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Neighborhood Funders Group
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Last Updated: 3/27/2024