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.
Listservs
The RAC Listservs provide regular updates on
rural news, funding opportunities, publications and events. The RAC
Health listserv is sent out twice a month with links to resources
on rural health issues. The Human Services listserv comes out monthly
with links to resources focused on rural human services. The Rural
Monitor listserv 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:
Beyond Health Care: The Economic Contribution of Hospitals
Sponsoring organization: American Hospital Association
Discusses economic impact of hospitals to communities, including rural communities.
Date: 04 / 2008
Prevalence of Evidence-Based Safe Medication Practices in Small Rural Hospitals
Author(s): Gary Cochran, Katherine Jones, Liyan Xu, Keith Mueller
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Describes the prevalence of evidence-based safe medication practices, including the use of voluntary medication error reporting, in small rural hospitals.
Date: 04 / 2008
Document Search
The RAC Document Search provides access to 4638 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.
