Health promotion and disease prevention

Completed Projects

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Preventive Health Service Use Among Rural Residents
Examining differences in rural-urban preventive health service use is critical to assessing the impact of health benefit design changes on access to preventive services and their use among rural and urban populations. We used National Health Institute Survey data to compare receipt of preventive health services among rural and urban adults.
Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Health promotion and disease prevention, Health services, Women

Preventive Care: Supports and Barriers to Best Practices for a National Sample of Rural Medicare Beneficiaries
Preventive health screenings are generally underutilized in the United States by the elderly, especially those residing in rural areas. Using an integrative approach, including secondary data analysis of a large nationally representative dataset (Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey) and complementary qualitative interviews with rural elders, the proposed research study aims for a more complete understanding of the factors influencing use of these practices.
Research center: FORHP-funded Individual Grantees
Topics: Aging, Health promotion and disease prevention
Rural Environmental Hazards Inventory and Associated Health Outcomes
This study will create a national inventory of potential environmental hazards for rural populations. Population health outcomes such as CDC mortality statistics will be examined to determine if poor health outcomes are related to greater exposures to potential hazards.
Research center: West Virginia Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Environmental and agricultural health, Health promotion and disease prevention, Public health, Transportation

Financing Rural Public Health Activities in Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
This project describes the federal-state funding streams for selected local public health activities in the area of chronic disease prevention and health promotion, and assesses potential barriers to program implementation in less populated, local areas of a state.
Research center: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
Topics: Chronic diseases and conditions, Health promotion and disease prevention, Healthcare financing, Public health

Breast, Cervical, Colorectal, and Prostate Cancer Screening in Rural America: Does Proximity to a Metropolitan Area Matter?
The study compared cancer screening rates among various levels of rural versus urban Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System respondents.
Research center: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Cancer, Health promotion and disease prevention