LibGuides: Public Health: Border & Rural Health

Rural Health

National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
The committee advises the Secretary of Health and Human Services on ways to address both health and human service problems in rural America.
National Center for Farmworker Health
Provides information services and products to a network of more than 500 migrant health center service sites.
National Rural Health Association
The NRHA is a national nonprofit membership organization and works to provide leadership on rural health issues.
Office of Rural Health Policy
The Office informs and advises the Department of Health and Human Services on issues that affect rural hospitals, health care, coordinating activities that relate to rural health care and maintaining a national information clearinghouse.
Rural Assistance Center
Provides rural health and rural human services information
Rural Information Center
The Rural Information Center provides information and referral services for America’s rural areas. The Web site contains over 3,000 links to information on a wide variety of rural resources and funding sources.

Definitions of Rural: A Handbook for Health Policy Makers and Researchers
Commissioned by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy as part of its continuing efforts to support policy-relevant services, research & analysis. It explains two methods of describing rurality, the OMB and Census. methods,
Rural Healthy People 2030
Since rural America faces different challenges than metropolitan areas, the Rural Healthy People project was designed. Its primary goal is to identify and address the priority health concerns of rural America.