Rural Healthy People 2010: Expansion Project

Funder:	Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)
Research center:	Southwest Rural Health Research Center Phone: 979.862.4238
Lead researcher:	Larry Gamm, PhD , 979.458.2244, gamm@srph.tamhsc.edu
Project completed:	August 2003
Topics:	Health promotion and disease prevention Healthy People 2010 (Rural) Physical abuse and domestic violence Public health

The Rural Healthy People 2010 project identified and prioritized the key rural health issues and summarized promising models for practice in those priority areas. The purpose of this expansion project is to build on the findings of Rural Healthy People 2010 by concentrating on the 13th and 14th highest ranking rural priority areas (Immunization and Infectious Diseases; Injury and Violence Prevention) and their associated models for practice. At the same time, additional models for practice for the focus areas and objectives covered in the prior years have been added to the Rural Healthy People 2010 website. (http://srph.tamhsc.edu/centers/rhp2010/)

Publications

• Rural Healthy People 2010: A Companion Document to Healthy People 2010. Volume 3
  Date: 04/2004
  Includes the overview of research and accompanying models for practice on 5 new focus areas in Rural Healthy People 2010, along with the more detailed literature reviews for each. The focus areas are: Access to Quality Health Services in Rural Areas/Access to Long-term Care; Educational and Community-based Programs in Rural Areas; Immunizations and Infectious Diseases in Rural Areas; Injury and Violence Prevention in Rural Areas; and Rural Public Health Infrastructure.