Rural Health Research: Gateway's Top Three COUNTDOWN

The Rural Health Research Gateway is funded by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy with the primary purpose of sharing the work of the federally-funded Rural Health Research Centers. The annual website analytics offer a glimpse into the public's rural health research interests.

Between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023

• 136,014 pages were viewed on the Gateway website
• The Twitter page maintained 2,764 followers with 773 followers on Facebook.
• The four rural health research webinars hosted by Gateway had a total of:
  • 712 total attendees
  • 647 views of archived recordings
  • 78 views of online PowerPoints

Top Three Research Products

Research products on Gateway include policy briefs, chartbooks, fact sheets, journal articles, infographics, and more. In the last year, 88 new rural health research products were added to the Gateway website!

1. Ambulance Deserts: Geographic Disparities in the Provision of Ambulance Services (May 2023)
   • 1,168 views
2. Social Determinants of Health Among Rural American Indian and Alaska Native Populations (July 2019)
   • 658 views
3. Rural Population Health in the United States: A Chartbook (February 2023)
   • 397 views

Top Three Alerts

The Rural Health Research Alert email provides updates when new publications become available. In the last year there were 401 new alert subscribers and Gateway sent 81 alerts.

1. COVID-19 Mortality Rates Across Noncore, Micropolitan, and Metropolitan Counties by Community Characteristics, December 2020 - January 2021
   • 569 views
2. New Articles Published on Hospitals, Elective Surgery, Electronic Health Records, Immunization, and Community Health Workers
   • 559 views
3. Changes in the Supply and Rural-Urban Distribution of Selected Behavioral Health Providers
   • 448 views

Top Three Recaps

The Rural Health Research Centers are committed to providing timely, quality national research on the most pressing rural health issues, often exploring the same topics from various perspectives. Gateway has developed Rural Health Research Recaps to succinctly identify the key findings from all of the centers on shared topics.

1. Rural Behavioral Health
   • 320 views
2. Rural Mental Health
   • 240 views
3. Rural Communities: Age, Income, and Health Status
   • 238 views

Top Three Topics

When visiting the Gateway website, users can search all products and research projects by topic. For the past five years, Health Disparities and Health Equity, Mental and Behavioral Health, and Substance Use and Treatment have landed in the top five.

1. Maternal Health
   • 471 views
2. Health Disparities and Health Equity
   • 358 views
3. Mental and Behavioral Health
   • 321 views