Completed
Regional focus
North America
Topics
On June 13, 2017, the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities and the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement held a joint workshop on Achieving Rural Health Equity and Well-Being: Challenges and Opportunities. The workshop was held at the Montgomery Prattville Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Prattville, which is located in central Alabama.
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Workshop
·2018
Rural counties make up about 80 percent of the land area of the United States, but they contain less than 20 percent of the U.S. population. The relative sparseness of the population in rural areas is one of many factors that influence the health and well-being of rural Americans. Rural areas have h...
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Description
An ad hoc committee will plan and implement a 1-day public workshop that will explore initiatives focused on improving community well-being. Particular attention will be paid to the intersecting challenges of racism, structural inequities, and poverty in the context of rural geographic regions. The workshop may include invited presentations on and discussion of initiatives created to tackle systematic disinvestment in rural communities and implications for improving the social determinants of health (e.g., jobs, economy, education, transportation, affordable housing) and access to and quality of health care services. The workshop is intended to illustrate some promising and constructive actions that rural communities facing these enormous challenges are taking to improve equitably residents’ health and well-being. The committee will plan and organize the workshop. A proceedings of the presentations and discussion at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.
Collaborators
Sponsors
Department of Health and Human Services
Other, Federal
Private: For Profit
Private: Non Profit
Staff
Karen Anderson
Lead
Alina Baciu
Lead
Anna W. Martin
Major units and sub-units
Health and Medicine Division
Lead
Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice
Lead