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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:
Highlights of Rural Perspective/Commentary Regarding "Proposed Health System Savings and Revenue Options" (Executive Summary)
Author(s): Keith J. Mueller
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Contains the executive summary of commentary from the Rural Health Panel on proposed options for comprehensive health care reform and the effects on rural areas.
Date: 06 / 2009
Impact of the Recession on Rural America: Rising Unemployment Leading to More Uninsured in 2009
Author(s): Timothy McBride, Leah Kemper
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Presents the results of state and county analysis of unemployment rates nationally in urban and rural (non-metropolitan) areas over the period 2007-February 2009 and discusses the impact of rising unemployment on uninsurance in rural areas.
Date: 06 / 2009
Profile of Rural Health Insurance Coverage: A Chartbook
Author(s): Jennifer D. Lenardson, Erika C. Ziller, Andrew F. Coburn, Nathaniel J. Anderson
Sponsoring organization: Maine Rural Health Research Center
Provides information on the health insurance
status of rural Americans under the age of 65. Includes recent estimates and changes since 1997 in rural health insurance coverage; differences in the demographic, socio-economic, employment and other risk factors for uninsurance among rural and urban residents; demographic and economic characteristics and employment differences of the rural and urban uninsured; and policy implications for covering the rural uninsured.
Date: 06 / 2009
Rural Perspective/Commentary Regarding "Financing Comprehensive Health Care Reform: Proposed Health System Savings and Revenue Options" (Narrative Table, May 20, 2009)
Author(s): Keith J. Mueller
Sponsoring organization: Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) Rural Health Panel
Contains a table of financing options with narration regarding the U.S. Senate Finance Committee's proposals for comprehensive health care reform.
Date: 05 / 2009
Rural Perspective/Commentary Regarding, "Financing Comprehensive Health Care Reform: Proposed Health System Savings and Revenue Options" (Full Report)
Author(s): Keith J. Mueller, Andrew F. Coburn, A. Clinton MacKinney, Timothy D. McBride, Rebecca T. Slifkin
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Provides commentary from the Rural Health Panel on the Senate Finance Committee's May 20, 2009 proposed options for comprehensive health care reform and the effects on rural areas.
Date: 06 / 2009
Rural-Urban Comparison of a Building Blocks Approach to Covering the Uninsured (Policy Brief)
Author(s): Timothy McBride
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Uses a health insurance model to compare the effects of a building blocks approach on health insurance coverage and health spending, focusing on the geographic differences (by metropolitan and non-metropolitan) of this approach.
Date: 06 / 2009
Document Search
The RAC Document Search provides access to 5176 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.
