Rural Health Research Gateway

Health promotion and disease prevention

Current Projects

Preventive Care: Supports and Barriers to Best Practices for a National Sample of Rural Medicare Beneficiaries
Research center: ORHP-funded Individual Grantees
Funder: Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)
Topics: Aging, Health promotion and disease prevention
Preventive health screenings are generally underutilized in the United States by the elderly, especially those residing in rural areas. Using an integrative approach, including secondary data analysis of a large nationally representative dataset (Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey) and complementary qualitative interviews with rural elders, the proposed research study aims for a more complete understanding of the factors influencing use of these practices.

Rural Environmental Hazards Inventory and Associated Health Outcomes
Research center: West Virginia Rural Health Research Center
Funder: Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)
Topics: Health promotion and disease prevention, Public health
This study will create a national inventory of potential environmental hazards for rural populations. Population health outcomes such as CDC mortality statistics will be examined to determine if poor health outcomes are related to greater exposures to potential hazards.


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