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Description
The Rural and Underserved Health Research
Center (RUHRC) will conduct rural health services and policy research with a concentration on
impoverished, underserved rural areas and populations as compared to other areas and
populations of the U.S. Underserved rural areas and their populations, including the
predominantly white Appalachia region, predominantly African American Mississippi Delta
region, and heavily Hispanic areas of the Southwest, face substantial economic challenges that
impact rural health care systems, access to care, and population health. Yet, relatively little
research in the overall field of rural health research has focused on inequities of access and
population health among highly underserved areas and populations.
Proposed Services. The RUHRC will produce research findings that are national in scope by
utilizing several existing nationally representative insurance claims and survey data sets. Our
proposed research center will expand the evidence base of pressing rural population health and
health care problems that our research team is uniquely qualified to investigate and include:
1. Rural substance use, its consequences, and treatment access; 2. Rural mental health and
treatment access; 3. Family physicians’ roles in rural health care, including the social
determinants of health and cancer services; and 4.Contemporary health policies and rural access.
Specific aims are:
Aim 1. To advance our understanding of effective means of organizing health services,
facilitating access, and improving population health in rural America, especially in highly
impoverished and underserved rural areas.
Aim 2. To disseminate research findings and inform health policy makers, health system
managers, and providers about how to better organize and deliver health services with the
ultimate goal of reducing inequities in care and improving population health in rural
communities.
To accomplish these aims, we have assembled an accomplished team of researchers with
expertise in general health services research (HSR), epidemiology, political science, health
economics, pharmacy outcomes and policy, family medicine, and journalism. In summary, our
Center for Rural Health Research will produce original health services findings to inform
decisions about how to improve rural health services delivery and population health in rural
America, especially rural areas with low median household incomes, high poverty and
unemployment rates, and low educational levels.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 9/1/20 → 8/31/23 |
Funding
- Health Resources and Services Administration: $1,066,533.00
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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Carryforward: Rural Health Research Grant Program Cooperative Agreement
Borders, T. (PI), Cross, A. (CoI), Talbert, J. (CoI), Thaxton Wiggins, A. (CoI), Benitez, J. (Former CoI), Delcher, P. (Former CoI) & Freeman, P. (Former CoI)
Health Resources and Services Administration
9/1/20 → 8/31/23
Project: Research project