DataSet

North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Counties With Less Than 10,000 Population Maps; USDA County Type Maps; Demographics of Rural America Maps; Health Status Indicator Maps; Rural Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) Maps; Critical Access Hospitals Maps; Health Workforce Supply Maps; Services and Programs Maps; North Carolina Maps

North Carolina; Rural Health; Rural Population; Demographics; Health Status Indicators; Hospitals; Rural; Critical Access Hospital Project; Health Manpower; Maps; Health Services Accessibility; Health Services Research; Statistics; Veterinarians; Urban Population; Rural Health Services; Data Collection

Maps

United States

Web accessible maps

United States, with a focus on rural residents

The cartographic archive contains maps created at the Sheps Center to illustrate problems and challenges in the provision of health care services to rural residents. The North Carolina Rural Health Research Program (NC RHRP) is built on the twenty-seven year history of rural health services research at the University of North Carolina's Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. The program draws on the experience of a wide variety of scholars and researchers, analysts, managers and health service providers associated with the Center. The Program also has an ongoing partnership with the NC Foundation for Advanced Health Programs, Inc. of the Office of Research, Demonstrations and Rural Health Development in the NC Department of Human Resources. The NC RHRP is working to identify problems in the rural health arena through policy-relevant analyses, the geographic and graphical presentation of data, and the dissemination of information to organizations and individuals in the health care field who can use this information for policy or administrative purposes. The Program's research involves primary data collection, analysis of large secondary data sets, and in-depth policy analysis. The Program brings together a diverse, multidisciplinary team including clinicians in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, mental health, and other professions and disciplines along with experts in biostatistics, geography, epidemiology, sociology, anthropology and political science to address complex social issues affecting rural populations. The Program's present policy analysis and research agenda focuses on two major substantive areas: rural hospitals and healthcare delivery organizations and access. We are currently working on research projects examining the distribution of providers and the identification of underserved populations, and ramifications of health care reform for rural areas. The Program also has an active dissemination component and emphasizes the use of geographic methods in research. Nested within the NC RHRP is the North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center (NC RHR & PAC), one of three federally-designated policy analytic centers funded by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, US DHHS Grant No. 1 UIC RH 00027-01. The NC RHRP is also funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the State of North Carolina, and FirstHealth of the Carolinas.

Sheps Center, UNC-CH

PHSR

Varies with map topic

Defining "Rural"; Demographics of Rural America; Health Status Indicators; Rural Hospitals; Critical Access Hospital Project; Health Manpower Supply; North Carolina Maps; Services and Programs

Varies with topic. Earliest data is 1990.

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