Sam the rural health advoCATe observes one common pattern: diabetes is more prevalent in rural.
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Sam the rural health advoCATe suggests rural > giving up. Rural counties slant poor, to they don’t attract the “money only”
crowd, and they slant old, so they need geriatricians. Just a thought.
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A new rural health research resource, shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe, who recognizes the need for methodologically sound rural research.
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Yet another broadly designed policy likely to disproportionately affect rural students, and ultimately reduce rural practitioners, hisses Sam the rural health advoCATe.
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Closeup of a grey tabby cat with his head pensively resting on his cat tree. Gorgeous white whiskers.
Sometimes it feels hard to focus on rural health research, or any public health research, when one is unsure that anyone is listening or that any policy changes will be made, muses Sam the rural health advoCATe. Even gorgeous whiskers might not be enough.
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Opportunity shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Sometimes folks need a little advice; NRHA can link communities to long term consults.
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New research, shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Sadly, "Nearly two-thirds ... of rural counties nationwide were classified as high-need in at least one domain."
Sam suspects that those counties will be neglected in RHAP funding.
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An important learning opportunity, shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Sam wants rural moms and kittens to thrive.
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Sam the rural health advoCATe thinks sponsoring journalists who explore rural health issues would be purrrrfect, JS.
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Ambulance Deserts (ADs) and Health Care Deserts (HCDs) Across 41 states in 2020-2021, 4.5m people live in ADs. In rural areas, 3.7m live in ADs, 2.7m live in HCDs and 1.5m live in AD & HCDs.
Sam the rural health advoCATe shares a new graphic depiction of health care shortages, from the Northeast Rural Health Research Center at the University of Maine. Ambulance gaps make other gaps even worse.
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A learning opportunity shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe, who loves CHWs.
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Three newly released studies on alcohol and substance abuse among rural & teens, shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Bottom line: few differences in problem prevalence.
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A story likely to be repeated throughout rural America, hisses Sam the rural health advoCATe. A “transformation fund” (transform into what?) doesn’t replace massive Medicaid cuts.
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Rural teachers are a critical part of the pipeline creating rural healthcare practitioners, notes Sam the rural health advoCATe. And rural schools often suffer from the same structural barriers.
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Interesting research, notes Am the rural health advoCATe. Rural respondents less likely to report thinking of shooting someone (adjusted analysis).
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Sadly shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Sam points out that a lot of Imperial Valley is marked by dust. Effect sizes might have been larger if the comparison group had been in a greener place.
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Sam the rural health advoCATe is perplexed by the flattening of Medicaid for rural but not urban hospitals post 2019. Churn?
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Shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe, who adds that rural communities are most affected by loss of a hospital, as there are not usually multiple providers in rural.
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Sam the rural health advoCATe points out that per-person funding has systematically debilitated rural healthcare. And local health personnel education is an important community support.
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South Carolina’s own Shannon Chambers talking about community paramedics in rural!
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Interesting Canadian rural analysis, shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Structural urbanism is not unique to the US and affects access to timely care in multiple national settings. (See also, "geographic narcissism" for this phenomenon.)
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This is an interesting study, but Sam the rural health advoCATe notes that it fails to examine trends among rural women, who are generally less likely to report age appropriate mammograms. Mammograms require infrastructure rural often lacks
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This is a very small proof of concept study, but Sam the rural health advoCATe believes it suggests one method for expanding SUD treatment access in rural.
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Pharmacies do more than dispense pills; pharmacists give essential advice on medication use, points out Sam the rural health advoCATe.
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Grimly shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. "Innovation" cannot replace gaps caused by decades of systematic underfunding for the basics of rural health care. And $50B does not replace $130B in Medicaid cuts.
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Shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Given that Medicare “Advantage” typically disadvantages rural hospitals, slow growth would seem a plus.
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Grimly shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe: continuing increases in the rate of new cases of diabetes in rural America.
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Sam the rural health advoCATe notes that diabetes, low income status & Medicaid/no insurance are all more common among rural residents.
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Sam the rural health advoCATe doesn't do politics, but this is a rural health story. Note the glib dismissal odf rural--"like 70 people live there"--which gave us bomb testing in Monument Valley in the 1940's and '50's, with lasting health consequences for the "downwinders."
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