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The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) is a national nonprofit professional association in the United States with more than 18,000 members. The association's mission is to provide leadership on rural health issues, which it attempts to carry out through education, communication, and advocacy.
ECUSA Western North Carolina. Rural Economic Development in North Carolina is analogous to other areas as the focus of said projects are to facilitate a higher standard of economic activity to a specified area. In these designated areas citizens, interest groups, business owners, and policymakers work together in order to formulate long-term ...
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Rural areas within the U.S. have been found to have a lower life expectancy than urban areas by approximately 2.4 years. [17] Rural U.S. populations are at a greater risk of mortality due to non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, and stroke, as well as unintentional injuries such as automobile accidents and opioid overdoses compared to urban ...
HRSA oversees services provided by the University of North Dakota's Rural Health Information Hub – formerly the Rural Assistance Center. RHIhub serves as an "information portal" to help rural communities and other rural stakeholders access the full range of available health care programs, funding and research.
The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) is a United States federal–state partnership that works with the people of Appalachia to create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life.
A rural health clinic (RHC) is a clinic located in a rural, medically under-served area in the United States that has a separate reimbursement structure from the standard medical office under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. RHCs were established by the Rural Health Clinic Services Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-210), (Section 1905 of the Social ...
The programs of NCHL are supported primarily through membership fees contributed by organizational members. [1] Participants in NCHL's membership programs vary based on the specific program, but they generally involve leaders who are responsible for a specific leadership activity within their own health system or university, such as healthcare leadership development, international healthcare ...