Frontier health

Publications

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• Defining the Term "Frontier Area" for Programs Implemented through the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth
  Author(s): University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health
  Research center: Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center
  Topics: Defining rural, Frontier health, Telehealth
  Date: 05 / 2006
  An expert panel report to the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Provides an overview of current frontier definitions and describes the process used to develop a new frontier area definition that could be applied to telehealth programs.
• Emergency Medical Services and the Federal Government's Evolving Role: What Rural and Frontier Emergency Medical Services Advocates Should Know
  Author(s): P. Daniel Patterson
  Topics: Emergency medical services (EMS), Frontier health, Health policy
  Citation: Journal of Rural Health, 22(2), 97-101
  Date: 2006
  Examines the debate around recent recommendations for an expanded federal role in supporting Emergency Medical Services (EMS). If federal expansion were to occur, the author recommends that responsibility for EMS be placed in the Department of Health and Human Services.
• RUCA Data: Travel Distance and Time, Remote, Isolated, and Frontier
  Research center: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
  Topics: Defining rural, Frontier health
  Discusses how Rural Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) codes, travel times and distances can be used together to create needed definitions of remote and isolated areas.
• Rural and Frontier Mental and Behavioral Health Care: Barriers, Effective Policy Strategies, Best Practices
  Author(s): Donald Sawyer, John Gale, David Lambert
  Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
  Topics: Frontier health, Mental health, Substance abuse, Telehealth
  Citation: Waite Park, MN: National Association of Rural Mental Health
  Date: 2006
  Discusses barriers to mental and behavioral health service delivery in rural America. Includes model programs and model policy strategies for rural mental and behavioral health care delivery. Also discusses the roles that telehealth and that the State Offices of Rural Health should play in service delivery.
• Rural Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Infrastructure
  Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
  Topics: Emergency medical services (EMS), Frontier health
  Date: 2004
  Prehospital care has become an important element in the spectrum of health services. Approaches for comparing the availability of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) across communities are a first step in developing policies that ensure equitable access for rural and frontier communities.