Letter from the Director

Letter from the Editor

Revisiting Topics From the Last Decade

• Housing:
  Despite Challenges, Rural Housing Organizations Meet Big Needs in Small Towns
  by Candi Helseth
• Coordinated Care
  Care Coordination Keeps Patients, Providers in the Loop
  by Candi Helseth
  • Sidebar: What is a Patient-Centered Medical Home?
• Health Promotion
  Health Promotion Programs Continue to Combat Growing Obesity Epidemic
  by Candi Helseth
  • Sidebar: Obesity Prevention Resources

Special Features

• Ten Years in Rural Health: 2002 – 2012
  A list of major events in the last decade.
• How Things Have Changed
  Selected rural statistics on poverty, population, etc., from the last decade.
• Looking Back, Looking Ahead
  by Beth Blevins
  What are the important events from the past ten years and what lies ahead in the next decade? Six folks involved in health and human services weigh in.
• Update: Where Are They Now?
  A look back at some of our previous stories and the changes the organizations (and people) have made since we first wrote about them.

Challenges for Human Services
by Kathleen Belanger
Rural Human Services: We’ve come so far and have so far to go!
Promotes the idea of the creation of an Office of Rural Human Services, similar to the Office of Rural Health Policy.

Look What’s Coming
by Wayne Myers, M.D.
What I Saw in 2019
Myers visits the year 2019 and likes what he sees, especially the formation of regional health care systems.