Rural Health Research Gateway

Human Services Project: Health & Human Services Integration: Challenges and Opportunities for Rural Service Providers and Communities

Funder: Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)
Research center: Rural Policy Analysis and Applications
Phone: 573.882.0316
Lead researcher: Brian Dabson
Contact: Brian Dabson, brian@rupri.org
Project funded: September 2004
Anticipated completion date:July 2011
Topics: Health policy
Health services

The Rural Human Service Panel is focused on the importance of integrating service delivery, both within the human service delivery field and between health and human services. The Panel is undertaking a survey of federal grant programs that provide flexible funding to understand how projects attempt to integrate health and human services. Included in this work is a position statement on the importance of integrating services in rural human service delivery efforts.