(MED 8017) Rural and Medically Underserved Population Primary Care

User icon Heather Dray
13 November 2023
19 items

Policy impacting primary care in medically underserved areas and populations in the U.S.


BPC: Bipartisan Policy Center · 16 January 2018 English

As rural communities continue to lack access to physicians and rural hospitals and as health centers struggle to keep their doors open, strengthening the financial viability of the rural health …


WSIPP: Washington State Institute for Public Policy · 10 November 2016 English

To address a perceived shortage in rural primary care providers, RAND Corporation researchers projected the effects that various policy options could have on Washington State's rural primary care workforce through …


ACGME: Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education · 6 October 2020 English

A.6.d) designate one osteopathic faculty member, at each participating site where osteopathic education occurs in the clinical learning environment, as the osteopathic site director who is accountable for the supervision …


BPC: Bipartisan Policy Center · 10 July 2023 English

Key to increasing access to behavioral health care in rural areas is integrating services into primary care, and key to the success of integration is expanding the behavioral health and …


NORC: NORC · 25 September 2023 English

Final Report


Urban Institute · 13 October 2023 English

Rural communities face many health challenges, often related to structural barriers such as limited access to health care. Targeted services and programs can improve rural health and well-being but require …


TFAH: Trust for America's Health · 14 August 2023 English

Collecting, analyzing, and translating relevant and Friendly Health Systems, and Age-Friendly Public Health robust data on older adults to identify the needs and Systems.2 This issue brief identifies opportunities for …


Brookings Institution · 21 March 2023 English

Getting to know the Black Belt, for example, in the South and some of the layers of injustice and discrimination that exist there that compound the challenges that we face …


AOHC: Association of Ontario’s Health Centres · 29 October 2021 English

The FON, recognizing the importance of including community stakeholders in the process, ensured that the voices of critical stakeholders were heard and that they had an opportunity to contribute to …


Cato Institute · 18 May 2023 English

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) signed HB 1311 into law on May 17, creating the new health care practitioner category called “graduate physicians.” Tennessee now joins Missouri, Arizona, Arkansas, Utah, …