Rural Communities

This report summarizes the findings from a roundtable series addressing the strengthening of cervical cancer prevention, screening, and management in safety-net settings.

This blog post reviews a trial that provided rural women with an interactive video of tailored messages about cancer screening plus a phone call with a patient navigator to get them up to date on cancer screenings.

Rural communities in Utah have high rates of obesity and low rates of physical activity. One of the major contributing factors to inadequate physical activity is the lack of bicycle and pedestrian infrastructures in rural communities. The Utah Cancer Control Program and its partners offered mini-…

This policy brief examines how the views of rural health stakeholders - individuals working in roles aimed at improving the lives and health of rural Americans - on the top public health priorities for rural America vary across census regions, demographic factors, and employment types.

This fact sheet will guide leaders in promoting equitable economic development in rural places across the country.

From 2011 to 2015, the cancer incidence rates and cancer mortality rates in New Hampshire and Vermont exceeded the national average. In addition, cancer death rates in rural areas are higher than in urban areas, with barriers such as a lack of broadband internet connectivity and a lower…

This toolkit from the compiles evidence-based and promising models and resources to support organizations implementing emergency planning, response, and recovery efforts in rural communities across the United States.

This interactive tool allows the CDC, other researchers, community organizations, local policymakers, and the public to create county-level maps. These maps illustrate the relationship between COVID-19 vaccination coverage rates and other health outcomes, socio-demographic, and economic variables…

This webinar addresses the 2023 Rural Population Health Chartbook includes 33 measures of population health organized into five domains: access to care, health outcomes and risks, mortality, social determinants of health, and socioeconomics.

This chartbook provides data variations in US population health in rural areas across all Census regions and states.