Barriers to health care in rural areas

    • [DOC File]Program Components - Office of Population Health ...

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      The main purpose of FQHCs is to expand access to primary health care for uninsured and underserved populations who experience financial, geographic, or cultural barriers to care and who live in or near federally designated Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) and Medically Underserved Areas or Populations (MUA/Ps).


    • [DOC File]Access by People with Mental Illness to Health Services

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      The points below briefly discuss the barriers faced by people with mental illness when accessing Health Services. The MHCA believes that although many of the barriers will be shared by people living with other disabilities, some are unique to those living with mental illness. ... who live in remote and rural areas, and who are living with ...


    • [DOCX File]docs.fcc.gov

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      For Americans living in rural and isolated areas, doctor shortages and hospital closures are endemic, and obtaining access to high-quality healthcare remains a constant challenge. Broadband connectivity has the potential to address such barriers to care by delivering telehealth services and access to cutting-edge healthcare treatments.


    • [DOCX File]110615 Barriers Workgroup - Key Takeaways v2 (2)

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      Discuss rural health access issues and potential options to address barriers to rural health access Mark Schoenbaum, MDH Mark Schoenbaum of MDH opened the session by reviewing the five components of access discussed in earlier meetings, which includes: availability, accessibility, accommodation, affordability, and acceptability.



    • [DOCX File]Virginia Department of Health

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      Shall establish specific criteria for determining need in rural areas, giving due consideration to distinct and unique geographic, socioeconomic, cultural, transportation, and other barriers to access to care in such areas and providing for weighted calculations of need based on the barriers to health care access in such rural areas in lieu of the determinations of need used for the particular ...


    • STATE OF GEORGIA, DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH, STATE ...

      Within DCH, the State Office of Rural Health (SORH) serves Georgians by improving access to health care in rural and underserved areas to improve health status and reduce health disparities. Program Background The percentage of veterans in Georgia is 10.9 percent a ranking of 26th in the nation.


    • [DOC File]VA.gov Home | Veterans Affairs

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      “This is an important step in expanding access to VA’s world-class health care system for veterans.” The 13-member group will examine ways to enhance Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care services for veterans in rural areas by evaluating current programs and identifying barriers to health care.


    • [DOCX File]apps.legislature.ky.gov

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      Barriers to Resources for individuals with Severe Mental Illness in Rural Kentucky. Availability. Chronic shortages of mental health professionals exist in Kentucky’s rural areas and mental health providers are more likely to practice in urban centers because of better salaries and benefits.


    • [DOC File]Tiffany Sanders Baffour, PhD

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      Distributive Injustices: Addressing Barriers to Health Care Experienced by Rural African American Families. Resource List. Avant, F.L. (2004). African Americans in rural areas: building upon assets from an afrocentric perspective, In T. L. Scales & C. L Streeter Rural social work: building and sustaining community assets.


    • [DOC File]A Comparison of Primary Health Care Provided by Rural and ...

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      Patients from the most deprived rural areas had a 29.4% chance of having very good social support, whereas those from the most privileged neighbourhoods had a 65.5% chance. By comparison, patients from the most deprived non-rural areas had a 30.5% chance of having very good social support and a 60.5% chance if they resided in an affluent area.


    • [DOCX File]National Strategic Framework for Rural and Remote Health

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      Health care planning, programs and service delivery models must be adapted to meet the widely differing health needs of rural communities and overcome the challenges of geographic spread, low population density, limited infrastructure and the significantly higher costs of rural and remote health care delivery. In rural and remote areas ...


    • [DOCX File]docs.fcc.gov

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      Community Health Center of Lubbock’s service area includes Health Professional Shortage Areas. Community Health Center of Lubbock’s Pilot project was selected because of its focus on primarily treating low-income patients and veterans and addressing patient connectivity barriers to receiving connected care services.


    • [DOC File]NM CARES Health Disparities Center

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      Guiding Framework for Conducting Health Disparities Research with Communities in New Mexico . INTERCULTURAL CBPR MODEL Contextual Barriers . Socioeconomic inequity. Racial/ethnic discrimination. Inconsistent and disparate health care delivery . Rural isolation and inadequate transportation. Time required to translate research findings into practice


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