Rural Health Information Clearinghouse
(RHIC)
E-mail Alert
April 17, 2008
Comments or questions? Please contact Rita Smith at smith_rb@mercer.edu or 478-301-2827. The RHIC Alert is a service of the Mercer University Medical Library.
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IN THIS ISSUE
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1. Georgia DHR Workshops on Smoking Cessation
2. New Georgia Report on the Uninsured
3. Physicians’ Rural Medicine Attitudes Surveyed
4. National Association of Counties Addresses Rural Obesity
5. GAO Projects Future Supply of Primary Care Professionals
6. Rural Residence is Risk Factor for Adverse Birth Outcomes
7. Rural Health Funding Opportunities
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1. Georgia DHR Workshops on Smoking Cessation
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Georgia DHR/Public Health Office of Healthy Behaviors is holding regional smoking cessation workshops to provide leadership, coordination and direction and develop a collaborative, comprehensive statewide cessation plan for Georgia. Two four-hour meetings will be held in three locations. These meetings will focus on establishing goals, creating strategies, and determining timeframes, responsibilities and metrics to include in a statewide plan. Meetings will be held in Smyrna, Macon, and Augusta. There is no cost to attend, but registration is required. To register, please contact Martha Dismer, Cessation Coordinator, at (404) 651-7324 or madismer@dhr.state.ga.us.
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2. New Georgia Report on the Uninsured
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Families USA has generated the first-ever state-level estimates of the number of deaths due to lack of health insurance. The report, “Dying for Coverage in Georgia” is available at http://www.familiesusa.org/assets/pdfs/dying-for-coverage/georgia.pdf.
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3. Physicians’ Rural Medicine Attitudes Surveyed
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A new white paper from Locum Tenems.com offers the physician's perspective on practicing rural medicine. Entitled "Practicing Medicine in Rural America," the white paper highlights a late-2007 physician survey of the same name to which 1,965 U.S. physicians responded. Both the survey results and the LocumTenens.com white paper validate how the lifestyle concerns prevalent among today's physicians exacerbate the U.S. physician shortage for communities of 50,000 people or fewer across the country. The paper is available at http://www.locumtenens.com/Facility-Resources/RuralWhitePaper.pdf
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4. National Association of Counties Addresses Rural Obesity
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A new report from the National Association of Counties
addresses strategies to support rural counties in developing successful obesity
prevention policies and programs.
Includes a description of the unique nature of obesity in rural America and
recommendations on how the philanthropic community can better support rural
communities’ efforts to develop successful obesity prevention policies and
programs.http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=New_Technical_Assistance&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=26506.
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5. GAO Projects Future Supply of Primary Care Professionals
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A new report from the Government Accountability Office focuses on recent supply trends for primary care professionals, including information on training and demographic characteristics; projections of future supply for primary care professionals; and the influence of the health care system's financing mechanisms on the valuation of primary care services. Available at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08472t.pdf.
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6. Rural Residence is Risk Factor for Adverse Birth Outcomes
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A new study from the University of Washington Rural Health Research Center compares rates of low birthweight, poor outcomes, and inadequate prenatal care among urban and rural areas from1985-1997. Results demonstrate that rural residence and residence in a persistent poverty county remained independent risk factors for inadequate care and some adverse birth outcomes, especially postneonatal mortality. The report is available at http://depts.washington.edu/uwrhrc/uploads/RHRC_FR119_Larson.pdf.
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7. Rural Health Funding Opportunities
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***Development of Comprehensive Drug/Alcohol and Mental
Health Treatment Systems for Persons Who are Homeless***
Deadline: May 29, 2008
http://www.samhsa.gov/Grants/2008/ti_08_013.aspx
The purpose of this SAMHSA program is to expand and strengthen treatment services for persons who are homeless (including those who are chronically homeless), who also have substance use disorders, mental disorders, or co-occurring substance use and mental disorders. To address the broad needs of this population, the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment seeks to increase the number of homeless persons placed in stable housing and who receive treatment services for alcohol, substance use, and co-occurring disorders.
***AHA Educational Stipend for Rural Health
Administrators***
Deadline: June 6, 2008
http://www.aha.org/aha/news-center/awards/rural-leadership/
The Shirley Ann Munroe Leadership Award provides an educational stipend to a small or rural hospital administrator or chief executive officer who has displayed outstanding leadership commitment to meet the challenges faced by small/rural hospitals. The stipend amount for 2008 is $1,200 and will help to defray the recipient’s expenses to attend an AHA Annual Meeting or Health Forum Leadership Conference.
***Adolescent Family Life (AFL) Demonstration Program***
Deadline: June 11, 2008
http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=449
These grants are for projects to develop, implement and evaluate a multi-site primary abstinence education program targeting youth ages 12-18, as compared with a multi-site “enriched” program model. Any public or private nonprofit organization or agency is eligible to apply for a grant. However, only those organizations or agencies that demonstrate the capability of providing and thoroughly evaluating a multi-site model as stipulated in this announcement will be considered for grant awards.
***Cancer Education Grants Program***
Deadline: various
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=17310
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), encourages applications for the development of: (i) innovative cancer education programs; and (ii) cancer research dissemination projects that can be completed within 5 years. Programs that may be supported include: (1) innovative educational programs intended to motivate biomedical and other health science students to pursue cancer related careers; (2) short courses to update cancer research scientists in new scientific methods, technologies and findings; (3) training of cancer care clinicians and community health care providers in evidence-based cancer prevention and control approaches; and (4) development of effective innovative education (dissemination) approaches to translate knowledge gained from science (discovery) into public health, and community applications (delivery).
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Outreach and Education Coordinator
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