Larry Gamm, PhD

Director, Southwest Rural Health Research Center

Phone: 979.458.2244
Fax: 979.458.0656
E-mail: gamm@srph.tamushsc.edu

Southwest Rural Health Research Center
Texas A & M University
School of Rural Public Health 1266 TAMU
Texas A&M Health Science Center
College Station, TX 77843-1266

Completed Projects

Rural Healthy People 2010 Expansion: Access to Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation Services, Educational and Community-Based Programs, and Public Health Infrastructure, Lead researcher
Research center: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
Funder: Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)
Topics: Health services, Healthy People 2010 (Rural), Long term care, Public health
This project expanded the work of Healthy People 2010 by adding three additional chapters and associated models for practice: Access to Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation Services, Educational and Community-Based Programs, and Public Health Infrastructure.

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

Rural Healthy People 2010: A Companion Document for Rural Areas, Lead researcher
Research center: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
Funder: Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)
Topics: Health promotion and disease prevention, Healthy People 2010 (Rural), Public health
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.

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/.

Rural Healthy People 2010: Expansion Project, Lead researcher
Research center: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
Funder: Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)
Topics: Health promotion and disease prevention, Healthy People 2010 (Rural), Physical abuse and domestic violence, Public health
The purpose of this expansion project is to build on the findings of Rural Health People 2010 by concentrating on the 13th and 14th highest ranking rural priority areas (Immunization and Infection Diseases; Injury and Violence Prevention) and their 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/.

White Paper: Models for Meeting the Mental Health Needs of People Living in Rural Areas (Rural Mental Health), Lead researcher
Research center: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
Funder: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Mental Health Services
Topics: Health services, Mental health

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.
  Research center: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
  Topics: Health promotion and disease prevention, Healthy People 2010 (Rural), Public health
  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.
  Research center: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
  Topics: Health promotion and disease prevention, Healthy People 2010 (Rural), Public health
  Date: 2003
  Detailed literature reviews and associated references for the top rural health concerns addressed in Vol. 1 of Rural Healthy People 2010.
• Rural Healthy People 2010: A Companion Document to Healthy People 2010. Volume 3
  Author(s): Larry D. Gamm, Linnae L. Hutchison, eds.
  Research center: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
  Topics: Health promotion and disease prevention, Health services, Healthy People 2010 (Rural), Long term care, Physical abuse and domestic violence, Public health
  Report Number: Updated February 2005
  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.