Conducting Rural Health Research, Needs Assessments, and Program Evaluations – About This Guide
Credits
This guide is maintained by Sarah Dauterive. For questions or comments about this guide, or for further assistance with using this guide, please contact Sarah at sarah@ruralhealthinfo.org.
RHIhub wishes to acknowledge the following individuals, who have contributed their time and expertise to ensure that this guide is as useful and up-to-date as possible:
- Alana Knudson, NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
- Greg Martin, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
- Shawnda Schroeder, University of North Dakota Department of Indigenous Health
Selection Criteria
This topic guide is designed to serve both as an introduction to Conducting Rural Health Research, Needs Assessments, and Program Evaluations and as a reference that collects the “best of the best” resources: selected documents, organizations, tools, funding opportunities, news items, events, and program examples.
Every effort has been made to ensure that this guide includes the most informative, useful, up-to-date, accessible resources which are publicly available. The aim, in this regard, is to be selective, not comprehensive – to collect and emphasize the best resources.
RHIhub’s staff reviews each guide annually and removes resources which have become dated or less useful due to the dynamic nature of rural health. New resources are added continually throughout each year.
RHIhub’s collection contains thousands of useful and important resources which are not listed on a topic guide. All of RHIhub’s collection is accessible via our site-wide search or by contacting our information specialists directly for customized assistance.
Citing This Guide
Much of the information included in this guide, including data, is taken from other sources, which are identified in the guide text. We recommend citing the original source rather than RHIhub in those cases. To cite the guide as a whole:
Rural Health Information Hub, 2024. Conducting Rural Health Research, Needs Assessments, and Program Evaluations [online]. Rural Health Information Hub. Available at: https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/topics/rural-health-research-assessment-evaluation [Accessed 11 December 2024]