Rural Healthy People 2010: A Companion Document for Rural Areas

Funder:	Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)
Research center:	Southwest Rural Health Research Center Phone: 979.458.0653
Lead researcher:	Larry Gamm, PhD , 979.458.2244, gamm@srph.tamushsc.edu
Project completed:	May 2003
Topics:	Health promotion and disease prevention Healthy People 2010 (Rural) Public health

The purpose of the project is to create a companion document to Healthy People 2010, with the focus on addressing rural health priorities. This project identified and examined approximately one dozen high priority objectives for rural health as a subset of the hundreds of objectives defined within Healthy People 2010 including, Access to Quality Health Services (Insurance, Primary Care, and EMS); Cancer; Diabetes; Heart Disease and Stroke; Maternal, Infant, and Child Health; Mental Health and Mental Disorders; Nutrition and Overweight Concerns; Oral Health; Substance Abuse; and Tobacco Use.

Results of surveys of national, state, and local rural agencies and provider organizations, along with other criteria, were used in the identification of rural health priorities. Surveys and other contacts helped to identify state and community initiatives targeting rural areas that are considered models for practice for the selected priority objectives. Research and practice literatures associated with each of the selected objectives were investigated by the project research teams and summarized along with associated models for practice.

View the models for practice and literature reviews on the Rural Health People 2010 website at http://srph.tamhsc.edu/centers/rhp2010/.

Publications

• Rural Healthy People 2010: A Companion Document to Healthy People 2010. Volume 1
  Author(s): Larry D. Gamm, Linnae L. Hutchison, Betty J. Dabney, Alicia M. Dorsey, eds.
  Date: 2003
  Brief overviews of the top rural health concerns and objectives associated with Healthy People 2010 focus areas, including, Access to Quality Health Services (Insurance, Primary Care, and EMS); Cancer; Diabetes; Heart Disease and Stroke; Maternal, Infant, and Child Health; Mental Health and Mental Disorders; Nutrition and Overweight Concerns; Oral Health; Substance Abuse; and Tobacco Use. Also included are references to key literature about these concerns, and descriptions of models for practice that rural communities can draw upon to achieve key Healthy People 2010 objectives.
• Rural Healthy People 2010: A Companion Document to Healthy People 2010. Volume 2
  Author(s): Larry D. Gamm, Linnae L. Hutchison, Betty J. Dabney, Alicia M. Dorsey, eds.
  Date: 2003
  Detailed literature reviews and associated references for the top rural health concerns addressed in Vol. 1 of Rural Healthy People 2010.