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ACADEMICS
- Frontier Mental Health
Services Resource Network
- The basic
mission of the Frontier Mental Health
Services Resource Network is the collection,
analysis, and synthesis of knowledge
regarding needs for and delivery of mental
health services in "frontier" rural
U.S. counties (nonmetropolitan counties with
population densities of less than seven
persons per square mile).
- Institute
for Research on Poverty
- The Institute
for Research on Poverty (IRP) is a national,
university-based center for research into the
causes and consequences of poverty and social
inequality in the United States.
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- National Laboratory for the
Study of Rural Telemedicine
- The National
Laboratory for the Study of Rural
Telemedicine, part of the University of
Iowa's Telemedicine Resource Center, provides
both ongoing and just-in-time support for
project directors and other faculty and staff
who are involved in the delivery of health
services to remote sites.
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- Nebraska
Center for Rural Health Research
- The broad
mission of the Nebraska Center for Rural
Health Research is to conduct research and
analysis related to improving health care
delivery in rural areas. The Center focuses
on special populations among rural residents,
including the elderly, children, minorities,
mentally ill, under and uninsured, and new
immigrants whose needs for assistance are
unique.
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- North
Carolina Rural Health Research Program
- The North
Carolina Rural Health Research Program (NC
RHRP) is built on the twenty-seven year
history of rural health services research at
the University of North Carolina's Cecil G.
Sheps Center for Health Services Research.
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- Rural
Policy Research Institute
- The Rural
Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) conducts
policy-relevant research and facilitates
public dialogue to assist policymakers in
understanding the rural impacts of public
policies and programs.
- Southeastern
Rural Mental Health Research Center
- The overall
mission of the Southeastern Rural Mental
Health Research Center (SRMHRC) is to improve
the quality of mental health care for rural,
impoverished individuals in the South.
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- Texas
A&M University System Health Science
Center School of Rural Public Health
- The Texas
A&M University System Health Science
Center School of Rural Public Health (SRPH)
aims to improve the health of communities,
with emphasis on rural and underserved
populations, through education, research,
service, outreach, and creative partnerships.
- Texas Tech University
Health Sciences Center's Office of Rural and
Community Health
- The Texas Tech
University Health Sciences Center's Office of
Rural and Community Health is charged with
coordinating rural health activities for
Texas Tech. The goal of the Office is to
improve the health of West Texans by
providing innovative leadership in education,
health care delivery, policy development, and
applied research.
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- University
of North Dakota Center for Rural Health
- The Center for
Rural Health was established in 1980. Since
then the Center has developed a full
complement of programs to assist researchers,
educators, policymakers, health care
providers, and most importantly rural
residents. The Center is one of the nation's
most experienced organizations, committed to
providing leadership in rural health.
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- Western
Rural Development Center
- The Western
Rural Development Center (WRDC) is one of
four USDA-sponsored regional rural
development centers in the country. WRDC
participates in rural development research
and extension (outreach) projects
cooperatively with universities in the West.
CULTURAL
- Association
of American Indian Physicans
- The Association of American
Indian Physicans AAIP is dedicated to
pursuing excellence in Native American health
care by promoting education in the medical
disciplines, honoring traditional healing
practices and restoring the balance of mind,
body, and spirit.
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- Indian Health Service
- The Indian Health Service
(IHS), an agency within the Department of
Health and Human Services, is responsible for
providing federal health services to American
Indians and Alaska Natives.
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- National
Council of La Raza
- The National Council of La
Raza (NCLR) is a private, nonprofit,
nonpartisan, tax-exempt organization
established in 1968 to reduce poverty and
discrimination, and improve life
opportunities for Hispanic Americans.
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- Office
of Minority Health
- The mission of the Office of
Minority Health (OMH) is to improve and
protect the health of racial and ethnic
minority populations through the development
of health policies and programs that will
eliminate health disparities.
GOVERNMENT
- Centers for Disease
Control & Prevention
- The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as
the lead federal agency for protecting the
health and safety of people - at home and
abroad, providing credible information to
enhance health decisions, and promoting
health through strong partnerships. CDC
serves as the national focus for developing
and applying disease prevention and control,
environmental health, and health promotion
and education activities designed to improve
the health of the people of the United
States.
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- Health Resources and
Services Administration
- The Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA) directs
programs that improve the Nation's health by
expanding access to comprehensive, quality
health care for all Americans.
- National
Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human
Services
- The National Advisory
Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
is a citizen's panel of 21 nationally
recognized experts that provides
recommendations on rural health and human
services issues to the Secretary of the
Department of Health and Human Services.
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- National
Center on Minority Health and Health
Disparities
- The mission of
the National Center on Minority Health and
Health Disparities (NCMHD) is to promote
minority health and to lead, coordinate,
support, and assess the NIH effort to reduce
and ultimately eliminate health disparities.
In this effort NCMHD will conduct and support
basic, clinical, social, and behavioral
research, promote research infrastructure and
training, foster emerging programs,
disseminate information, and reach out to
minority and other health disparity
communities.
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- National
Health Service Corps
- The National Health Service
Corps is a program of the Federal Health
Resources and Service Administration's Bureau
of Primary Health Care, which is the focal
point for providing primary health care to
underserved and vulnerable populations.
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- National
Institute on Aging
- The National Institute on
Aging's (NIA) mission is to improve the health and
well-being of older Americans through
research, and specifically to support and
conduct high quality research, train and
develop highly skilled research scientists
from all population groups, develop and
maintain state-of-the-art resources to
accelerate research progress, and disseminate
information and communicate with the public
and interested groups on health and research
advances and on new directions for research.
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- National
Rural Development Partnership
- The National Rural Development
Partnership (NRDP) is a multi-faceted
organization bringing together partners from
all levels of government as well as private
for profit and non-profit organizations to
address the needs of rural America.
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- Office
of Rural Community Affairs
- The Office of Rural Community
Affairs (ORCA) was created by the 77th
Legislature to develop policy specifically
addressing economic and quality of life
issues affecting small and rural communities
across Texas.
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- Office
of Rural Health Policy
- The Office of Rural Health
Policy (ORHP) promotes better health care
service in rural America.
- Rural
Assistance Center
- The Rural Assistance Center
(RAC) is a new national resource on rural
health and human services information.
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- Western
Center for Agricultural Health and Safety
- The Western Center for
Agricultural Health and Safety is an
agricultural health and safety center
established in the United States by the
Centers for Disease Control for the purpose
of protecting and improving the health and
safety of the nation's farmers, farmworkers,
and consumers.
INTERNATIONAL
- Canadian
Rural Information Service
- The Canadian Rural Information
Service (CRIS) is a clearinghouse for
information relevant to rural Canada.
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- Canadian
Rural Partnership
- The Canadian Rural Partnership
is the key policy framework supporting
federal rural policy efforts to date. The
Partnership is about operating within the
federal government to ensure that federal
programs, policies and activities provide
support to rural communities.
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- Centre
for Rural and Northern Health Research
- The Centre for Rural and
Northern Health Research's (CRaNHR) mandate
is to conduct interdisciplinary research on
rural health and the health workforce with a
view to improving health services, access to
health care, particularly in rural and
northern communities, and enhancing our
understanding of the health care system.
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- Institute
of Rural Health
- The Institute of Rural Health
addresses the broader definition of health in
the rural context. The Institute works with
individuals and communities, academic bodies,
and organisations involved in service
delivery.
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- Office
of Rural Health (Australia)
- The Office of Rural Health
(ORH) is part of the Australian Commonwealth
(Federal) Department of Health and Ageing
based in Canberra and is part of the Health
Services Improvement Division.
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- Office
of Rural Health (Canada)
- The Office of Rural Health
provides policy advice on rural health
issues, identifies rural health issues,
fosters understanding about rural health
issues, and promotes the involvement of rural
citizens, communities and health care
providers.
MISCELLANEOUS
- Center for
Rural Affairs
- The Center for
Rural Affairs, a private, non-profit
organization, is working to strengthen small
businesses, family farms and ranches, and
rural communities.
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- Healthfinder
- Since 1997,
Healthfinder has been recognized as a key
resource for finding the best government and
nonprofit health and human services
information on the Internet.
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- Nursing Education Loan
Repayment Program
- The Nursing
Education Loan Repayment Program (NELRP)
offers registered nurses substantial
assistance to repay educational loans in
exchange for service in eligible facilities
located in areas experiencing a shortage of
nurses.
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- Rural
Center for AIDS/STD Prevention
- The major
focus of the Rural Center for AIDS/STD
Prevention (RCAP) is the promotion of HIV/STD
prevention in rural America, with the goal of
reducing HIV/STD incidence.
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- Rural
Development
- Rural
Development is committed to helping improve
the economy and quality of life in all of
rural America. Through our programs, we touch
rural America in many ways.
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- Rural
Health Outreach Grant Program
- The purpose of
the Rural Health Outreach Grant Program is
"to expand access to, coordinate,
restrain the cost of, and improve the quality
of essential health care services, including
preventive and emergency services, through
the development of integrated health care
delivery systems or networks in rural areas
and regions."
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- Rural
Sociological Society
- The Rural
Sociological Society is a professional social
science association that seeks to enhance the
quality of rural life, communities, and the
environment.
ORGANIZATIONS
- American Public
Health Association
- The American Public Health
Association (APHA) is the oldest and largest
organization of public health professionals
in the world, representing more than 50,000
members from over 50 occupations of public
health.
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- Center for Rural Studies
- The purpose of
the Center for Rural Studies is to enhance
the quality of life of rural residents of the
Northern Plains through coordinated research
and information dissemination efforts.
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- National
Association for Rural Mental Health
- The National
Association for Rural Mental Health (NARMH)
was founded in 1977 in order to develop and
enhance rural mental health and substance
abuse services and to support mental health
providers in rural areas.
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- National Center for
Farmworker Health
- The National
Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH),
established in 1974, is dedicated to
improving the health status of farmworker
families by providing information services
and products to a network of more than 500
migrant health center service sites in the
United States as well as other organizations
and individuals serving the farmworker
population.
- National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- The National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) is the Federal agency responsible for
conducting research and making
recommendations for the prevention of
work-related disease and injury.
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- National
Rural Health Association
- The National
Rural Health Association is a national
membership organization, whose mission is to
improve the health and health care of rural
Americans and to provide leadership on rural
issues through advocacy, communications,
education and research.
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- National
Rural Recruitment and Retention Network
- The National
Rural Recruitment and Retention Network (3R
Net) is made up of state not-for-profit
organizations that help health professionals
locate practice sites in rural areas
throughout the country.
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- Resource
Center for Rural Behavioral Health
- The staff of the APA Office of
Rural Health and the APA Computer Office have
developed a world wide web site (RuralPSYCH)
to serve as a resource for providers,
purchasers, and consumers of behavioral
health care in frontier and rural areas.
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- Texas Rural
Health Association
- The Texas Rural Health
Association (TRHA) is a
nonprofit organization whose primary goal is
to improve the health of rural Texans.
PUBLICATIONS
- Australian
Journal of Rural Health
- The Australian Journal of
Rural Health is a multidisciplinary refereed
journal, and since its inception in 1993 has
contributed to the accumulation of knowledge
of rural health in Australia.
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- Canadian
Journal of Rural Medicine
- The Canadian Journal of Rural
Medicine (CJRM) seeks to promote research
into rural health issues, promote the health
of rural (including native) communities,
support and inform rural practitioners,
provide a forum for debate and discussion of
rural medicine, provide practical clinical
information to rural practitioners and
influence rural health policy by publishing
articles that inform decision-makers.
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- International Journal
of Rural Psychology
- The
International Journal of Rural Psychology is
a vehicle to publish and promote issues
related to rural and remote psychology.
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- Journal of
Rural Health
- The Journal of
Rural Health, a quarterly journal published
by the NRHA, offers original research
encompassing evaluations of model and
demonstration projects to improve rural
health, statistical comparisons of rural and
urban differences, and mathematical models
examining the use of health care services by
rural residents.
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