This guide provides a collection of tools, funding sources, documents, journals, and organizations that support or perform research related to rural health and human services.
Health-related areas include but are not limited to:
- FLEX programs
- Rural Health Research Centers
- Policy analysis
- Services to rural and frontier communities
Human services topics include:
- Poverty
- Housing
- Employment
- Education
- Substance abuse
- Welfare programs
- Transportation needs
Related Guides
Tools
2012 HHS Poverty Guidelines
Web site
Provides current and past poverty guidelines, poverty thresholds, and other related information.
Am I Rural?
Web site
Helps determine whether a specific location is considered rural based on various definitions of rural, including definitions that are used as eligibility criteria for federal programs. Definitions covered include Rural Urban Commuting Areas (RUCAs), Core Based Statistical Areas, Rural Urban Continuum Codes (RUCC), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and Urban Influence Codes (UICs).
American Community Survey: The New Era for Detailed Data (Webinar)
Web site
Webinar, presented by Kathleen Miller, discusses the American Community Survey and how it is used to collect data, as well as issues with its methodology and results.
CIM (Community Issues Management)
Research instrument
Search issue-specific content and create maps and reports to illustrate the "place-based" implications of issues impacting rural America.
Developing and Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: A Skill-Building Curriculum
Web site
Assists community-institutional partnerships in using or planning a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to improving health. It can be used by partnerships that are just forming as well as by mature partnerships.
Directory of Rural Health Contacts: Rural Research Centers
Web site
Lists contact information for research centers that engage in rural health research.
Effective Health Care Program
Web site
Provides health care reports from quality research in formats for consumers, clinicians, and policymakers. Information also available in Spanish.
Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Centers (GRECC)
Web site
Each of the twenty GRECCs contain a research, an education, and a clinical component that work together to provide care to the aging Veteran population and train health care professionals. They sponsor the Geriatric Scholars Program for Rural CBOCs and Rural Interdisciplinary Team Training.
Hospital Classification (SCH/CAH/Rural)
Database
Offers lists of sole community hospitals (SCH), critical access hospitals (CAHs), CAH inpatient and outpatient cost to charge ratios (CCRs), plus rural hospitals under 100 beds and rural sole community hospitals under 100 beds.
HRSA: Rural Health (Office of Rural Health Policy)
Web site
Provides rural health resources that include grant information, technical assistance, and research publications.
HSRProj (Health Services Research Projects in Progress)
Database
Offers a searchable database of ongoing health services research and public health projects.
Maternal and Child Health Library: Rural Health Resource Brief
Web site
Lists and describes federal agency and professional organization websites containing fact sheets, data and research findings, reports, news, policy briefs, toolkits, presentations, databases, and multimedia sources on rural health programs, policy developments, and state rural health research centers. Provides links to state and federal agencies and organizations that focus on rural-health-related issues and best practices.
MedlinePlus: Rural Health Concerns
Database
Provides information from the National Library of Medicine on various rural health concerns via research, journal articles, statistics, policy, and news.
RAC Maps
Web site
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.
RAC Topic Guides
Web site
Resources and frequently asked questions collected by topics related to rural health and human services. Guides include policy briefs, research reports, charts and data, success stories, and directories.
Research Data Assistance Center
Research instrument
A Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) contractor that provides free assistance to academic, government, and non-profit researchers interested in using Medicare and/or Medicaid data for their research.
Rural Futures Lab
Web site
Provides access to the products of the Rural Futures Lab, which aims to ensure a successful future for rural America through papers, profiles, and case studies focusing on food systems, renewable energy, entrepreneurship, disability, and health systems.
Rural Health Research Gateway
Web site
Provides access to all of the research and findings of the Office of Rural Health Policy's Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Centers. Covers current and completed research projects and publications resulting from those projects. Includes information about the research centers and individual researchers.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Regions
Web site
Displays a color-coded map showing the ten designated HHS regions in the United States and Territories. Includes links and contact information for each region.
User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web
Tutorial
Provides tips on filtering the millions of health-related Web pages through the health subsets of major search engines and using quality electronic finding tools to initially screen websites for further examination.
Veterans Rural Health Resource Centers: Central Region
Web site
Located in Iowa City, this center focuses on evaluating rural health programs and piloting new strategies to help Veterans overcome barriers to access and quality.
Veterans Rural Health Resource Centers: Eastern Region
Web site
Maintains three locations in Gainesville, FL; Togus, ME; and White River Junction, VT and focuses on developing models to deliver specialty care and services to rural areas, and educating and training VA’s next generation of rural health care providers.
Veterans Rural Health Resource Centers: Western Region
Web site
Located in Salt Lake City, UT, this center focuses on outreach, access issues, and the needs of Native Veterans and Aging Veterans.
What is Rural? Topic Guide
Web site
Provides resources, information, and frequently asked questions on the various definitions used to identify rural areas in the United States.
Funding
AcademyHealth Health Services Research Impact Award
Awards for health services research that has made a positive impact on health policy and/or practice.
AHRQ Grant Program for Large or Recurring Conferences (R13)
Grants to support conferences that help to further its mission to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans.
AHRQ Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grants (R18)
Funding for Large Research Demonstration and Dissemination (R18) Projects
AHRQ Health Services Research Projects (R01)
Funding for Large Research (R01) Projects, and expresses AHRQ portfolio priority areas of interest for ongoing extramural health services research, demonstration, dissemination, and evaluation grants.
AHRQ Small Grant Program for Conference Support
Grants to support conferences that help to further its mission to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans.
Charles Lafitte Foundation Grants
The Foundation supports four distinct charitable programs: Education, Children's Advocacy, Medical Issues & Research and The Arts.
Commonwealth Fund Health Grants
Supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy.
NIH Small Research Grant Program (Parent R03)
A funding opportunity that supports small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources.
Inactive Funding
Inactive Funding Opportunities -
Lists additional funding programs for this topic that are not currently accepting applications. Programs that are inactive may be offered again in the future.
Maps & Map Collections
North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Cartographic Archive
Geographic coverage: United States
A list of maps in PDF that define rural and characterize rural America. Thematic maps cover demographics, frontier counties, health status, critical access hospitals, rural hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and health workforce supply.
Date: 2011
Regulations, Forms & Other Useful Documents
2009 Report to the Secretary: Rural Health and Human Service Issues
Sponsoring organization: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
Report to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on issues related to rural America. Examines three key topics: workforce and community development, creating viable patient-centered medical homes, and serving at-risk children.
Date: 04 / 2009
Access to Social Services in Rural America: The Geography of the Safety Net in the Rural West
Author(s): Scott W. Allard, Jessica Cigna
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center
Investigates social services in high poverty rural regions in the American West in California, Oregon, and New Mexico to see what types of assistance are readily available to the rural poor.
Date: 06 / 2008
Challenges for Improving Health Care Access in Rural America: A Compendium of Research and Policy Analysis Studies of Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Centers 2009-2010
Sponsoring organization: Office of Rural Health Policy
Released in July 2010, the compendium is a collection of twenty-four research and policy analysis studies on health care access in rural America from the Office of Rural Health Policy Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Centers.
Date: 2010
Climate Change and Rural Communities in the US
Author(s): Jennifer Keller Jensen
Sponsoring organization: Rural Policy Research Institute
Discusses how rural communities in the US have an important stake in the climate change debate.
Date: 08 / 2009
Compass for Understanding and Using American Community Survey Data: What Users of Data for Rural Areas Need to Know
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Census Bureau
An introduction to the American Community Survey for those who use rural social, economic, and housing data.
Date: 08 / 2009
Designating Health Professional Shortage Areas and Medically Underserved Populations / Medically Underserved Areas: A Primer on Basic Issues to Resolve
Author(s): Andrew F. Coburn, Jennifer P. Lundblad, A. Clinton MacKinney, Timothy D. McBride, Keith J. Mueller
Sponsoring organization: Rural Policy Research Institute Rural Health Panel
Purpose of this paper is to help interested parties consider issues related to the designation of MUAs, MUPs, and HPSAs. Paper includes narrative describing key issues and a table summarizing how the designations establish eligibility for programs important to rural medical care delivery.
Date: 08 / 2010
Development of the Rural Active Living Assessment Tools: Measuring Rural Environments
Author(s): Anush Yousefian, Erin Hennessy, M. Renee Umstattd
Sponsoring organization: Maine Rural Health Research Center
Describes research performed that resulted in the development of Rural Active Living Assessment (RALA) Tools, which assess the ability of rural communities to be conducive to physical activity.
Date: 2010
Disseminating Rural Health Research to Community, State and National Audiences: A Communications Toolkit for Health Researchers
Author(s): Wendy Opsahl, Amanda Scurry, Alex McEllistrem-Evenson, Holly Gabriel, Patricia Moulton
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Research Gateway
Includes approaches for both developing various research-related documents and disseminating research results.
Date: 01 / 2010
Effect of Outpatient Visits and Discharge Destination on Potentially Preventable Readmissions for Congestive Heart Failure and Bacterial Pneumonia (Final Report)
Author(s): Marilyn G. Klug, Kyle Muus
Sponsoring organization: Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center
Explores the relationship between potentially preventable hospital readmissions and a) use of outpatient follow-up care, b) discharge destination, c) rural versus urban residence of the patient, and d) time to follow-up care.
Date: 03 / 2012
Effect of Outpatient Visits and Discharge Destination on Potentially Preventable Readmissions for Congestive Heart Failure and Bacterial Pneumonia (Policy Brief)
Author(s): Marilyn G. Klug, Kyle Muus
Sponsoring organization: Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center
Emphasizes the importance of receiving timely post-discharge outpatient care and appropriate discharge destination for reducing preventable hospital readmissions, especially but not exclusively among rural-based patients.
Date: 03 / 2012
Geography of Need: Identifying Human Service Needs in Rural America
Author(s): Colleen Heflin, Kathleen Miller
Sponsoring organization: Rural Policy Research Institute
Uses American Community Survey five year average county-level data to compare the type and degree of human service needs in metropolitan versus non-metropolitan counties.
Date: 06 / 2011
High Performance Rural Health Care System of the Future
Author(s): Keith J. Mueller, Andrew F. Coburn, Jennifer P. Lundblad, A. Clinton MacKinney, Timothy D. McBride, Sidney D. Watson
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Describes a future rural system that would be built on foundations of affordability, accessibility, community focus, high quality, and patient centeredness.
Date: 09 / 2011
Humboldt County, California: A Promising Model for Rural Human Services
Author(s): Mario Gutierrez, Kathleen Belanger, Jane Forrest Redfern, Larry Goolsby, Jocelyn Richgels
Sponsoring organization: Rural Policy Research Institute
Summary of an in-depth assessment of the Humboldt County, CA fully integrated health and human services delivery model, which included multiple extended site visits to Humboldt County in 2010 by the Rural Human Services Panel, RUPRI and others.
Date: 02 / 2012
Protecting Personal Health Information in Research: Understanding the HIPAA Privacy Rule
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Provides researchers with an understanding of the Privacy Rule and how it may affect health research.
Date: 04 / 2003
Rethinking Rural Human Service Delivery in Challenging Times: The Case for Service Integration
Author(s): Mario Gutierrez, Kathleen Belanger, Vaughn Clark, et al.
Sponsoring organization: Rural Policy Research Institute Rural Human Services Panel
Explains the need for a regionally integrated rural human services system in order to address challenges many rural social services agencies face in delivering human services.
Date: 02 / 2010
Rural America at a Glance, 2011
Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
Highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The 2011 edition focuses on the U.S. rural economy, including employment trends, poverty, education, and population trends.
Date: 09 / 2011
Rural Healthy People 2010: Educational and Community Based Programs in Rural Areas
Author(s): Larry Gamm, Graciela Castillo, Lisa Williams
Sponsoring organization: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
Addresses rural health issues associated
with the Healthy People 2010 focus area on education and community based programs.
Date: 01 / 2005
Rural Healthy People 2010: Educational and Community Based Programs in Rural Areas: A Literature Review
Author(s): Larry Gamm, Graciela Castillo, Lisa Williams
Sponsoring organization: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
Detailed literature review of rural health issues associated with the Healthy People 2010 focus area on educational and community-based programs.
Date: 01 / 2005
Rural Healthy People 2020
Author(s): Jane N. Bolin, Gail Bellamy
Sponsoring organization: Texas A&M School of Rural Public Health
Outlines the strategic plan for completing Rural Healthy People (RHP) 2020, names the top priority areas to be addressed, and describes the next steps toward its development. RHP 2020 will aim to identify rural health priorities, support rural health leaders and researchers, and promote effective rural health programs.
Rural Issues Related to Comparative Effectiveness Research and Dissemination (Policy Brief)
Author(s): Ira Moscovice, Michelle Casey
Sponsoring organization: Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center
Describes strategies for expanding clinical research in rural environments; implementing practice guidelines in rural settings; and improving access to current evidence-based information for rural health professionals and patients.
Date: 06 / 2009
Safety Net Activities of Independent Rural Health Clinics
Author(s): David Hartley, John Gale, Al Leighton, Stuart Bratesman
Sponsoring organization: Maine Rural Health Research Center
Explores to what extent independent Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) are serving a safety net role and whether the proximity of a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) has an effect on the extent to which an Rural Health Clinic serves the safety net role.
Date: 09 / 2010
State of Human Services in Rural America
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center
Provides an overview of the types of human service programs serving rural communities and the challenges they face. Suggests a research agenda for rural America.
Journal citation: Perspectives: On Poverty, Policy, and Place Volume 5 Issue Winter Pages: 3 - 6
Date: 03 / 2009
Toward More Effective Use of Research in State Policymaking
Author(s): Jack A. Meyer, Tanya T. Alteras, Karen Adams
Sponsoring organization: Commonwealth Fund
Offers a conceptual framework to support effective use of health services research in state health policymaking. Provides practical lessons and communication strategies. Includes a case study of Massachusetts' health care reform legislation.
Date: 12 / 2006
Journals
Advances
Monthly newsletter that reports on the key work of the RWJ Foundation through articles and interviews, lists of recent grants, reports on closed grants, summaries of RWJF-funded research and other news from the Foundation that demonstrate the effective delivery of health care services.
Insights on Southern Poverty
Periodic newsletter summarizing research on issues related to poverty in the South.
NRHA eNews
Electronic newsletter sent monthly to NRHA members, providing updates on government affairs and on funding and educational opportunities related to rural America.
Online Journal of Rural Research and Policy
Publishes peer-reviewed academic and community-based research, commentary, and policy articles focused on the Great Plains.
Research Activities: Online Newsletter
Includes monthly announcements of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), their products and projects, and summarizes research findings from studies supported by the Agency.
Rural Realities
Peer-reviewed, web-based series that published from 2006 - 2010. Each issue is devoted to a single topic. Seeks to showcase innovative applied research being conducted by RSS members and other rural social scientists that give attention to critical and timely rural issues.
Organizations
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Federal government
Sponsors and conducts research that provides evidence-based information on health care outcomes, quality, cost, use, and access. The information helps health care decisionmakers - patients and clinicians, health system leaders, purchasers, and policymakers - make more informed decisions and improve the quality of health care services.
American Public Human Services Association (APHSA)
National organization
Works to educate members of Congress, the media, and the broader public on what is happening in the states regarding welfare, child welfare, health care reform, and other issues involving families and the elderly.
Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM)
National organization
Works to improve public policy and management by fostering excellence in research, analysis, and education. Activities respect and enhance racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, and other forms of diversity among participants.
Atlas Research
Academic/Research
A Health care consulting and research firm providing strategic advisory services to health systems leaders. Areas of expertise include: emergency preparedness and response, health care quality and performance measurement, health disparities and health equity, health information technology, rural health, systems of care and care delivery innovations, and veterans and military health.
Center for Advancing Health (CFAH)
Nonprofit/Foundation
Translates to the public evidence-based research on health, health care, prevention, and chronic disease management, with an emphasis on how social, behavioral and economic factors affect illness and well-being.
Commonwealth Fund
Nonprofit/Foundation
Supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy. Dedicated to helping people become more informed about their health care and improving care for vulnerable populations such as children, elderly people, low-income families, minority Americans, and the uninsured.
Essentia Institute of Rural Health
Academic/Research
Identifies needs and deficiencies in rural health care and investigates solutions to resolve disparities. Acts as a conduit for academic health centers to access rural patient populations and collaborate in research and educational activities.
Human Services Research Institute (HSRI)
Academic/Research
Conducts research and assists states and the federal government to enhance services in the areas of: intellectual and developmental disabilities, substance use and prevention, mental health and child and family services.
International Comparative Rural Policies Studies (ICRPS)
Academic/Research
Introduces the skills to analyze and compare policies at the international, national, state, regional, and local levels. Enables graduate students and mid-career professionals to examine and compare the role of rural policy in different cultural, political and administrative contexts in Europe and North America, as well as in the South.
Maine Rural Health Research Center (MRHC)
Academic/Research
One of six Rural Health Research Centers currently funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy. Works to inform health care policymaking and the delivery of rural health services, focusing on rural health care financing and system reform, rural long term care, and rural mental health.
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC)
Academic/Research
A nonprofit, nonpartisan social policy research organization dedicated to learning what works to improve the well-being of low-income people. Through research and communication they work to affect policies and programs.
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (MPR)
Commercial
Conducts research to support decisions about our nation's most pressing social policy problems. Past research includes studies of health care, welfare, education, employment, nutrition, and early childhood policies and programs in the United States.
National Rural Health Resource Center (RHRC)
National organization
Provides technical support for the State Offices of Rural Health and their flex coordinators for the Rural Hospital Flexibility Program, focuses on rural practice opportunities for healthcare providers in Minnesota and the surrounding region, does performance improvement with hospitals across the country, and develops the Rural Health Resource Directory of rural consultants and speakers found throughout the United States.
Native American Research Centers on Health (NARCH)
Academic/Research
Federally-funded research centers that conduct research and research training responsive to the needs of American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
Nebraska Center for Rural Health Research (NCRHR)
Academic/Research
Conducts research and analysis related to improving health care delivery in rural areas on a national basis. Focuses on special populations among rural residents, including the elderly, children, minorities, mentally ill, under and uninsured, and new immigrants whose needs for assistance are unique.
Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government
Academic/Research
Conducts research on the role of state and local governments in American federalism and on the management and finances of states and localities. Also includes projects in health care, welfare, social services, education, and public safety.
NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
Academic/Research
Focuses on changes in Medicare payments to rural providers, access to care for rural residents, and rural public health infrastructure.
North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center (NC RHR & PAC)
Academic/Research
One of six Rural Health Research Centers currently funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy. Works to identify rural health problems through policy-relevant analyses, geographic and graphical presentation of data, and information dissemination. Focuses on rural hospitals and healthcare delivery organizations and access.
North Central Regional Center for Rural Development (NCRCRD)
State/regional organization
One of four regional rural development centers in the nation. Works with extension professionals, researchers, and partners to enhance rural development outcomes. Serves a 12 state area in the North Central region which includes ND, SD, NE, KS, MN, IA, MO, WI, IL, IN, MI, and OH.
Office of Human Services Policy (HSP)
Federal government
Focuses on welfare, poverty, service delivery issues, data for research, policies affecting children, youth, and families, and economic matters affecting the Department. HSP is in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Research and Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities (RTC)
Academic/Research
Conducts research on issues of access to transportation and housing, employment and self-employment, independent living services, health and wellness facilities, and inclusion in community planning and activities of people with disabilities. Provides information and training to rural communities on disabilities.
Research Forum at the National Center for Children in Poverty
Academic/Research
Encourages collaborative research and informed policy on welfare reform, child and family well-being, and community/neighborhood issues, including those in rural areas.
RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Academic/Research
One of six Rural Health Research Centers currently funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy. Focuses on rural health care financing/system reform, rural systems building, and meeting the health care needs of special rural populations.
RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center (RPRC)
Academic/Research
Works to understand how policy and practice can reduce poverty across the rural-urban continuum.
Rural Health Research Institute (RHRI)
Academic/Research
Based at Georgia Southern University in Bulloch county, this newly-formed Institute focuses on research initiatives to reduce health disparities among rural populations. It also engages community partners in collaborative research and outreach efforts, and fosters mentoring relationships among its faculty and students for rural health research purposes.
Rural Policy Research Institute Rural Health Panel (RUPRI)
Academic/Research
Provides decision-makers with timely, objective, and expert analysis of the implications of policy for rural health.
Rural Policy Research Institute Rural Human Services Panel (RUPRI)
National organization
Works to insure a system of rural human services delivery that responds to the unique social and environmental characteristics of rural America.
South Carolina Rural Health Research Center (SCRHRC)
Academic/Research
One of six Rural Health Research Centers currently funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy. Focuses on investigating persistent inequities in health status within the population of the rural U.S., with an emphasis on inequities stemming from socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, and access to healthcare services.
Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE)
Nonprofit/Foundation
Through grants and education, SARE works to advance agricultural innovation that promotes profitability, stewardship of the land, air and water, and quality of life for farmers, ranchers and their communities.
Southwest Rural Health Research Center (SRHRC)
Academic/Research
Conducts and disseminates policy-relevant research on critical rural health issues, with a focus on: meeting and understanding the needs of rural underserved and special populations; eliminate or reduce health disparities; and maintain and build rural health systems.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Federal government
Acts as the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services.
Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center (UMRHRC)
Academic/Research
One of six Rural Health Research Centers currently funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy. Undertakes national projects focusing on quality of rural health care and other rural health issues by combining expertise with the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center and the University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health.
Urban Institute (UI)
Academic/Research
Gathers data, conducts research, evaluates programs, offers technical assistance overseas, and educates Americans on social and economic issues — to foster sound public policy and effective government. Research includes rural America.
Veterans Rural Health Resource Center Western Region: Native Domain
Academic/Research
Works to evaluate, catalog and coordinate past and ongoing programs and projects targeted to help identify, delineate, then disseminate models of best practices for rural Native Veterans.
West Virginia Rural Health Research Center (WVRHRC)
Academic/Research
One of six Rural Health Research Centers currently funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy. Conducts policy-relevant research on environmental health in rural populations and other topics.
WICHE Center for Rural Mental Health Research
Academic/Research
Develops and evaluates strategies to promote the adoption of evidence-based mental health care to rural residents with depression and mental illness.
WWAMI Rural Health Research Center (WWAMI RHRC)
Academic/Research
One of six Rural Health Research Centers currently funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy. Focuses on training and supply of rural health care providers, availability and quality of care for rural women and children, and access to high-quality care for vulnerable and minority rural populations. Based in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Terms & Acronyms
Cooperative Agreement An agreement between a funding agency and grantee which allows the funder some control. These are often used by the government to conduct extramural clinical trials.
Cooperative Agreement An agreement between a funding agency and grantee which allows the funder some control. These are often used by the government to conduct extramural clinical trials.
Fellowship Financed research post, given to a post graduate student, providing study facilities and privileges in return for teaching services.
Fellowship Financed research post, given to a post graduate student, providing study facilities and privileges in return for teaching services.
Grey Literature A field in library and information science that deals with the production, distribution, and access to multiple document types produced on all levels of government, academics, business, and organization in electronic and print formats not controlled by commercial publishing i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body.
Institutional Review Board (IRB) A committee of physicians, statisticians, researchers, community advocates, and others that ensures that a clinical trial is ethical and that the rights of study participants are protected. All clinical trials in the U.S. must be approved by an IRB before they begin. Every institution that conducts or supports biomedical or behavioral research involving humans must, by federal regulation, have an IRB that initially approves and periodically reviews the research so as to protect the rights of people.
Institutional Review Board (IRB) A committee of physicians, statisticians, researchers, community advocates, and others that ensures that a clinical trial is ethical and that the rights of study participants are protected. All clinical trials in the U.S. must be approved by an IRB before they begin. Every institution that conducts or supports biomedical or behavioral research involving humans must, by federal regulation, have an IRB that initially approves and periodically reviews the research so as to protect the rights of people.
Research Grants Grants administered by the federal government to support investigation aimed at the discovery of facts, health services research, clinical trials, revision of accepted theories, or applications of new or revised theories. Research grants for individuals are usually referred to as fellowships.
Rural Health Research Center (RHRC) Established by ORHP to perform policy-oriented research on issues related to rural health care.
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