Rural Health Research Gateway

Healthy People 2010 (Rural)

Completed Projects

Rural Healthy People 2010 Expansion: Access to Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation Services, Educational and Community-Based Programs, and Public Health Infrastructure
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
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
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/.