Rural Health Research: Gateway's Top Three COUNTDOWN

The Rural Health Research Gateway is funded by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy with the primary purpose of sharing the work of the federally-funded Rural Health Research Centers. The annual website analytics offer a glimpse into the public's rural health research interests.

Between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024

• 165,793 pages were viewed on the Gateway website
• The X (Twitter) page maintained 2,923 followers with 883 followers on Facebook.
• The four rural health research webinars hosted by Gateway had a total of:
  • 1,068 total attendees
  • 851 views of archived recordings

Top Three Research Products

Research products on Gateway include policy briefs, chartbooks, fact sheets, journal articles, infographics, and more. In the last year, 62 new rural health research products were added to the Gateway website!

1. Ambulance Deserts: Geographic Disparities in the Provision of Ambulance Services (May 2023)
   • 2,106 views
2. Changes in the Supply and Rural-Urban Distribution of Psychologists in the U.S., 2014-2021 (October 2022)
   • 932 views
3. Rural Healthy People 2030: Common Challenges, Rural Nuances (May 2023)
   • 549 views

Top Three Alerts

The Rural Health Research Alert email provides updates when new publications become available. In the last year there were 510 new alert subscribers and Gateway sent 54 alerts.

1. Use of the Area Deprivation Index and Rural Applications in the Peer-Reviewed Literature
   • 652 views
2. Differences in Measurement of Operating Margin: An Update
   • 518 views
3. A Comparison of 2017-19 Uncompensated Care of Rural and Urban Hospitals by Net Patient Revenue, System Affiliation, and Ownership
   • 514 views

Top Three Recaps

The Rural Health Research Centers are committed to providing timely, quality national research on the most pressing rural health issues, often exploring the same topics from various perspectives. Gateway has developed Rural Health Research Recaps to succinctly identify the key findings from all of the centers on shared topics.

1. Rural Hospital Closures: 2023 Update
   • 1,431 views
2. Rural Behavioral Health Workforce
   • 1,072 views
3. LGBTQ+ Health: Rural vs Urban Inequities
   • 279 views

Top Three Topics

When visiting the Gateway website, users can search all products and research projects by topic. For the past six years, Health Disparities and Health Equity, Mental and Behavioral Health, and Substance Use and Treatment have landed in the top five.

1. Maternal Health
   • 339 views
2. Health Disparities and Health Equity
   • 263 views
3. Mental and Behavioral Health
   • 218 views