Rural Health Services

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 30-Day risk-standardized mortality and readmission rates after ischemic stroke in critical access hospitals. 
  • A budget impact analysis of telemedicine-based collaborative care for depression. 
  • A mixed-method study of factors associated with differences in caesarean section rates at community level: the case of rural China. 
  • A public health approach to cervical cancer screening in Africa through community-based self-administered HPV testing and mobile treatment provision. 
  • Access to CKD Care in Rural Communities of India: a qualitative study exploring the barriers and potential facilitators. 
  • Access to healthcare services makes a difference in healthy longevity among older Chinese adults. 
  • Access to outpatient services in rural communities changes after hospital closure. 
  • An innovative pay-for-performance (P4P) strategy for improving malaria management in rural Kenya: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • Analysis of strategies to attract and retain rural health workers in Cambodia, China, and Vietnam and context influencing their outcomes. 
  • Applied Rapid Qualitative Analysis to Develop a Contextually Appropriate Intervention and Increase the Likelihood of Uptake. 
  • Awareness, Knowledge, and Travel-Related Risk Factors for Zika Virus Among Latinas Attending a Federally Qualified Health Center in Rural North Carolina. 
  • Barriers to accessing HIV/AIDS care in North Carolina: rural and urban differences. 
  • Behavioral Health Integration into Primary Care: a Microsimulation of Financial Implications for Practices. 
  • Beneath the Surface: A Comparison of Methods for Assessment of Quality of Care for Maternal and Neonatal Health Care in Rural Uganda. 
  • Benefits and Challenges of Delivering Tele-rehabilitation Services to Rural Veterans. 
  • Beyond medical pluralism: characterising health-care delivery of biomedicine and traditional medicine in rural Guatemala. 
  • Can rural health insurance improve equity in health care utilization? A comparison between China and Vietnam. 
  • Can the New Cooperative Medical Scheme promote rural elders' access to health-care services? 
  • Challenges for strengthening the health workforce in the Lao People's Democratic Republic: perspectives from key stakeholders. 
  • Characteristics of HIV-infected adults in the Deep South and their utilization of mental health services: A rural vs. urban comparison. 
  • Clinical and economic results from a randomized trial of clinical decision support in a rural health network. 
  • Community-based nursing: continence care for older rural women. 
  • Community-based voluntary counseling and testing services in rural communities of Chiang Mai Province, Northern Thailand. 
  • Cost of HPV screening at community health campaigns (CHCs) and health clinics in rural Kenya. 
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis of a rural telemedicine collaborative care intervention for depression. 
  • De facto mental health services in the rural south. 
  • Decentralizing rural health services: a case study in China. 
  • Discrepancies in the female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgeon workforce. 
  • Do targeted efforts for the rural underserved help kill comprehensive reform? 
  • Enhancing future acceptance of rural placement in Tanzania through peripheral hospital rotations for medical students. 
  • Evaluating a community-based cervical cancer screening strategy in Western Kenya: a descriptive study. 
  • Evaluation of specialist referrals at a rural health care clinic. 
  • Evaluation of the North Country on the Job Network: a model of facilitated care for injured workers in rural upstate New York. 
  • Factors associated with enrollment, satisfaction, and sustainability of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme program in six study areas in rural Beijing. 
  • Factors that influence the presence of a hospice in a rural community. 
  • Focus on rural health. Preface. 
  • Geographical affiliation with top 10 NIH-funded academic medical centers and differences between mortality from cardiovascular disease and cancer. 
  • Half of Rural Residents at High Risk of Serious Illness Due to COVID-19, Creating Stress on Rural Hospitals. 
  • Health services access and use among older adults in North Carolina: urban vs rural residents. 
  • Health system preparedness for integration of mental health services in rural Liberia. 
  • Hearing Norton Sound: a community randomised trial protocol to address childhood hearing loss in rural Alaska. 
  • Hearing Norton Sound: mixed methods protocol of a community randomised trial to address childhood hearing loss in rural Alaska. 
  • High Caesarean section rate in rural China: is it related to health insurance (New Co-operative Medical Scheme)? 
  • High sensitivity and specificity of clinical microscopy in rural health facilities in western Kenya under an external quality assurance program. 
  • How affordable are tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment in rural China? An analysis from community and tuberculosis patient perspectives. 
  • How does the New Cooperative Medical Scheme influence health service utilization? A study in two provinces in rural China. 
  • Human resource issues in rural mental health services. 
  • Human-centered design as a guide to intervention planning for non-communicable diseases: the BIGPIC study from Western Kenya. 
  • Improving the quality of rural nursing care. 
  • In urban and rural India, a standardized patient study showed low levels of provider training and huge quality gaps. 
  • Innovative bridging of the rural-urban divide: comparison of scope, safety, and impact of collaborative rural surgery camps and an urban surgical program. 
  • Is anybody out there? Integrating HIV services in rural regions. 
  • Keen on teen vaccines: improvement of adolescent vaccine coverage in rural North Carolina. 
  • Medical training debt and service commitments: the rural consequences. 
  • Mortality In Rural China Declined As Health Insurance Coverage Increased, But No Evidence The Two Are Linked. 
  • Multicomponent intervention versus usual care for management of hypertension in rural Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • NIMH Project Accept (HPTN 043) HIV/AIDS community mobilization (CM) to promote mobile HIV voluntary counseling and testing (MVCT) in rural communities in Northern Thailand: modifications by experience. 
  • Nursing patient safety research in rural health care settings. 
  • Oncology service initiatives and research in regional Australia. 
  • Optimizing linkage and retention to hypertension care in rural Kenya (LARK hypertension study): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Outcomes of an uncertainty management intervention in younger African American and Caucasian breast cancer survivors. 
  • Outcomes of states' scholarship, loan repayment, and related programs for physicians. 
  • PTSD symptom clusters associated with physical health and health care utilization in rural primary care patients exposed to natural disaster. 
  • Patients' experiences on accessing health care services for management of hypertension in rural Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka: A qualitative study. 
  • Patterns and implications of medical pluralism among HIV/AIDS patients in rural South Africa. 
  • Persistent problems of access to appropriate, affordable TB services in rural China: experiences of different socio-economic groups. 
  • Predicting the intentions of women in domestic violence shelters to return to partners: does forgiveness play a role? 
  • Primary care provider views of the current referral-to-eye-care process: focus group results. 
  • Providers as weight coaches: using practice guides and motivational interview to treat obesity in the pediatric office. 
  • Public and personal depression stigma in a rural American female sample. 
  • Randomized Trial of Telegenetics vs. In-Person Cancer Genetic Counseling: Cost, Patient Satisfaction and Attendance. 
  • Revision joint replacement surgeries of the hip and knee across geographic region and socioeconomic status in the western region of Victoria: a cross-sectional multilevel analysis of registry data. 
  • Rural health prepayment schemes in China: towards a more active role for government. 
  • Rural/urban differences in barriers to and burden of care for children with special health care needs. 
  • Screening for diabetes and hypertension in a rural low income setting in western Kenya utilizing home-based and community-based strategies. 
  • Selecting an electronic medical record system for small physician practices. 
  • Service costs of caring for adolescents with mental illness in a rural community, 1993-2000. 
  • Shortages of rural mental health professionals. 
  • Socioeconomic disparities in access to HIV/AIDS treatment programs in resource-limited settings. 
  • Statistical analysis plan for the control of blood pressure and risk attenuation-rural Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka (COBRA-BPS) trial: a cluster randomized trial for a multicomponent intervention versus usual care in hypertensive patients. 
  • Stroke center designation can be achieved by small hospitals: the Massachusetts experience. 
  • Tailoring your heart failure project for success in rural areas. 
  • Telehealth in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Rural Veteran and Military Beneficiaries. 
  • Telehealth, Rural America, and the Digital Divide. 
  • The Impact of Increasing Surgical Capacity at a Tertiary Hospital in Southern Haiti. 
  • The Maternal Health Compact. 
  • The North Country on the Job Network: a unique role for occupational health nurses in a community coalition. 
  • The effect of an integrated multisector model for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and improving child survival in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a non-randomised controlled assessment. 
  • The effect of rural residence on dental unmet need for children with special health care needs. 
  • The effectiveness of the peer delivered Thinking Healthy Plus (THPP+) Programme for maternal depression and child socio-emotional development in Pakistan: study protocol for a three-year cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • The financing and organization of health services in poor rural China: a case study in Donglan County. 
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Low-Population Density Areas: Assessing Healthcare Access for Older Adults With Severe Aortic Stenosis. 
  • Use of telepsychiatry to improve care for people with mental illness in rural North Carolina. 
  • Utilisation, contents and costs of prenatal care under a rural health insurance (New Co-operative Medical System) in rural China: lessons from implementation. 
  • Utilization of antenatal ultrasound scan and implications for caesarean section: a cross-sectional study in rural Eastern China. 
  • Utilization of delivery care among rural women in China: does the health insurance make a difference? a cross-sectional study. 
  • Village doctors managing hypertension in rural China. 
  • Women's health and pregnancy outcomes: do services make a difference? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bettger, Janet Prvu, Adjunct Associate in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke Science & Society
  • Mohanan, Manoj, Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Economics
  • Morgan, Perri Anne, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program