Those in rural areas face some distinctive health issues, including shortages of health professionals and services. Rural Kansans often must travel long distances for care and they tend to be older, poorer and less healthy than people in cities and suburbs. KHI researchers and journalists track the challenges facing rural residents, highlight solutions, and provide that information to policymakers and the public.
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There are a few pharmacists like Jonathan W. Brunswig and his family, but not enough to go around. Recruiters say getting pharmacy graduates to move to rural areas can be an uphill battle.
0 | May. 07, 2009 |
The health care difficulties that rural areas face are unique from their urban counterparts. On top of limited staff sizes and finances, rural areas face the additional burden of long distances between health care providers and their constituents. This document describes how rural areas fared in the 2009 Kansas County Health Rankings.
0 | Aug. 27, 2008 |
More than 15 percent of the patients served by a free dental clinic early this year reported they have never been to a dentist.
0 | Mar. 02, 2006 |
March, 2006 - Roughly one-half of all local public health departments in the United States are both small and rural. Sixty percent of local health departments that responded to a survey in 2000 said they were located in a non-metropolitan area, the designation for “rural” developed by the Office of Management and Budget and used for policy purposes by agencies such as the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Forty-eight percent of local public health departments were categorized as “rural” in 2002 using a more refined definition, Rural-Urban Commuting Area Codes. One-half of local health departments responding to the 2000 survey served populations of fewer than 25,000 people, and 69 percent served populations of fewer than 50,000 people.
0 | Jun. 01, 2004 |
Kansas Mission of Mercy (KMOM), a free dental clinic sponsored by the Kansas Dental Charitable Foundation, served more than 2,000 patients on the campus of Pittsburg State University from April 30 through May 2, 2004. This report analyzes data from an exit survey given to participants of the clinic.
0 | Jan. 22, 2004 |
The population of frontier and rural counties of Kansas has declined every decade since 1930. If this trend continues, health services in these areas may become economically unsustainable.
0 | Feb. 02, 2012 |
The "Leadership and Faith, Southeast Kansas" program is intended to equip community members with leadership skills and build on the momentum of Project 17, an initiative aimed at improving the economy and quality of life in southeast Kansas.
0 | Feb. 02, 2012 |
Recruiting doctors to live and work in rural America is a chronic problem. Most health centers try to attract workers with big salaries, a home on a golf course or other cushy perks. Not so in Ashland, Kan., population 855, where the CEO of a tiny hospital is building a reverse recruitment model based on remote access and problems commonly found in third-world countries.
0 | Jan. 06, 2012 |
Four state senators from southeast Kansas are meeting today with a group of regional leaders to decide how to sustain an economic development initiative launched at a summit here in November.
0 | Nov. 29, 2011 |
Supporters of using "registered dental practitioners" to help meet Kansans' oral health needs are scheduled to meet at Fort Hays State University to discuss a curriculum for training the technicians. State law doesn't allow the practitioners to be licensed. Seven national experts plan to meet with members of a Kansas coalition that is trying to persuade policymakers to allow the mid-level caregivers to work in Kansas, despite opposition from the Kansas Dental Association.
0 | Nov. 21, 2011 |
What began a few years ago as an attempt to improve lagging health rankings in southeast Kansas has morphed into an effort to transform the region’s long-battered economy.
1 | Feb. 06, 2012 |
Citing uncertainty in the amount of money Kansas will receive from major tobacco companies as part of a long-standing legal settlement, Gov. Sam Brownback has proposed cutting $16 million from programs that promote parenting skills and early childhood development.
0 | Jan. 01, 2009 |
This introduction to the issue of underinsurance discusses the difficulty in determining what constitutes underinsurance and alerts policymakers to issues they should consider when addressing this issue.
0 | Feb. 03, 2012 |
Gov. Sam Brownback today appointed former legislator Phyllis Gilmore to be secretary of the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, following the troubled tenure of Rob Siedlecki, who resigned in December after just a year at the post.
0 | Feb. 02, 2012 |
Two bills before a House corrections committee are aimed at growing problems among youths in Leavenworth County, according to county officials.
0 | Jan. 25, 2012 |
The head of the Medicaid fraud unit at the Kansas Attorney General’s Office told lawmakers it was easy to cheat programs that provide in-home services for the disabled and the frail elderly.
0 | Sep. 11, 2008 |
TOPEKA, Sept. 11 - Videos of the recent health-care forum at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics have been posted on the Web site of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
1 | Feb. 06, 2012 |
Citing uncertainty in the amount of money Kansas will receive from major tobacco companies as part of a long-standing legal settlement, Gov. Sam Brownback has proposed cutting $16 million from programs that promote parenting skills and early childhood development.
3 | Jun. 22, 2011 |
In this video, KHI senior analyst Tatiana Lin discusses community water fluoridation from a public health perspective.
1 | Jan. 30, 2012 |
A top official at the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services defended a change in policy that has resulted in at least 1,000 children being dropped from the state’s food stamp program.
1 | Jan. 20, 2012 |
Gov. Sam Brownback on Friday hinted that his administration might use a portion of the revenues gained from his proposed elimination of the state’s earned income tax credit to help reduce long-standing waiting lists for services for the disabled.
1 | Jan. 20, 2012 |
A Wichita lawmaker has introduced a bill that would remove long-term care services for the developmentally disabled from the governor's plan to expand Medicaid managed care.
1 | Jan. 17, 2012 |
Recent cuts in community mental health center budgets are harming veterans and their families, according to a center director.
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