Poverty

Completed Projects

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Rural Socioeconomic Risk and Resiliency Inventory and Associated Health Outcomes
This study will create a national inventory of social and economic risks and resiliencies for every county in the nation, and relate those risks to health outcome data. The study will test whether rural areas with fewer risks and greater resiliencies are related to better health outcomes.
Research center: West Virginia Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Environmental and agricultural health, Poverty

Uninsurance and Welfare Reform in Rural America
This project used widely accepted databases to examine the recent history of uninsurance rates in the U.S., focusing on the low-income population that could be eligible for welfare. Additionally, the project concentrated on how welfare reform has impacted the health insurance coverage of welfare recipients and other low-income persons over the period when welfare reform was phased in.
Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Topics: Poverty, Uninsured and underinsured

Access to Physician Care for the Rural Medicare Elderly
This study described where Medicare beneficiaries in five states obtain their health care, how far they travel for that care, and the mix of physician specialties from which they obtain ambulatory care. Special attention was paid to beneficiaries who have dual Medicare-Medicaid status, who reside in poorer income areas, and who live in designated Health Professional Shortage Areas.
Research center: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Aging, Chronic diseases and conditions, Health services, Medicare, Physicians, Poverty