Publications & Maps
The Rural Monitor
The Rural Monitor is the quarterly newsletter of the Rural Assistance Center. Each issue provides articles on a variety of rural health and human services issues.
E-mail Updates
RAC Updates keep you informed of the latest
rural news, funding opportunities, publications and events. The
Health Update is sent out twice a month with links to resources
on rural health issues. The Human Services Update comes out monthly
with links to resources focused on rural human services. The Rural
Monitor Update comes out quarterly with the latest issue of the
Rural Monitor newsletter.
Maps
The RAC Maps section provides
national maps on a variety of rural health and human services topics. Maps can be customized to focus on a specified state or county and to show additional labels, boundaries and data, for use in grant applications, reports and other publications.
Information Guides
RAC's Information Guides bring together relevant information on rural issues and topics, pulled from the News, Funding and Events sections of the RAC web site, as well as links to useful publications, organizations and web sites. Some guides include in-depth information, such as frequently asked questions and contacts for more assistance.
Federal Register News
RAC's Federal Register News provides
summaries of rural-relevant Federal
Register notices from the past 120 days, with links to the Federal
Register for the complete notice.
Publications
RAC collects and facilitates access to documents, journals and other publications from many sources, including these:
Key publications identified in the past 30 days:
Assuring Health Coverage for Rural People Through Health Reform
Author(s): Andrew F. Coburn, A. Clinton MacKinney, Timothy D. McBride, Keith J. Mueller, Rebecca T. Slifkin, Erika Ziller
Sponsoring organization: Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) Rural Health Panel
Reports that rural residents have a higher uninsured rate than their urban counterparts, and describes health care reform initiatives that can help improve coverage of rural Americans.
Date: 10 / 2009
More Choices, Better Coverage: Health Insurance Reform for Rural America
Author(s): Julie Chang, Meena Seshamani, Joan Van Nostrand, Jenna Kennedy, Carrie Cochran
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Describes how the economic downturn may increase many of the health and access disparities that are already a problem in rural communities. Presents possible health insurance reform solutions.
Date: 10 / 2009
Rural Residents Lag in Preventive Services Use; Lag Increases with Service Complexity
Sponsoring organization: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
Describes the receipt of preventive services among rural adults and explores the factors that are related to disparities in utilization.
Date: 06 / 2009
Document Search
The RAC Document Search provides access to 5332 documents, including rural health research center reports, rural health association newsletters, newsletters from state offices of rural health, and a variety of human services publications. New documents are added daily.
