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How One Hospital Entices Doctors To Work In Rural America

NPR news story on one hospital's strategy for recruiting and retaining clinical staff.

Recruiting doctors to live and work in rural America is a chronic problem. Most health centers try to attract workers with big salaries and expensive homes.

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National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undergraduate Scholarship Program

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undergraduate Scholarship Program (UGSP) offers competitive scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds who are committed to careers in biomedical, behavioral, and social science health-related research. The program offers:

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Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9 Spanish

A depression diagnosis that warrants treatment or treatment change, needs at least one of the first two questions endorse as positive (little pleasure, feeling depressed) indicating the symptom has been present more than half the time in the past two weeks.

 

In addition the tenth question about difficulty at work or home or getting along with others should be answered at least "somewhat difficult".

 

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Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9 English

A depression diagnosis that warrants treatment or treatment change, needs at least one of the first two questions endorse as positive (little pleasure, feeling depressed) indicating the symptom has been present more than half the time in the past two weeks.

 

In addition the tenth question about difficulty at work or home or getting along with others should be answered at least "somewhat difficult".

 

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Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-2

The PHQ-2 inquires about the frequency of depressed mood and anhedonia over the past two weeks. The PHQ-2 includes the first two items of the PHQ-9.

 

The purose of the PHQ-2 is not to establish a final diagnosis or to monitor depression severity, but rather to screen for depression in a "first step" approach.

 

Patients who screen positive should be further evaluated with the PHQ-9 to determine whether they meet criteria for a depressive disorder.

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Health Outcomes and Disparities

Link to Table 7 from HRSA's UDS reporting manual regarding health outcomes and disparities measures.

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Quality Improvement and Risk Management Training

Link to some introductory training on quality improvement provided by HRSA and developed by the Morehouse School of Medicine, available as pre-recorded auid and video modules in Real Player software format that cover: defining quality, what to do to improve quality, measuring improvement, and strategies to make quality better.

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La Vida Mia

Hombres Unidos Contra la Violencia Familiar presents "La Vida Mia"

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Metrics for evaluating patient navigation during cancer diagnosis and treatment

Crafting a policy-relevant research agenda for patient navigation in cancer care.

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Educational Brochures for Asthma, Lead and Pesticides

Three printable brochures on Asthma, Lead and Pesticides produced by Farmworker Justice. 
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National Advisory Council on Migrant Health, Migrant Health Issues: Disaster Relief

Migrant Health Issues Monograph series regarding Disaster Relief for migrant populations.

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Public Health Emergency Exercise Toolkit

This toolkit is intended to guide local public health agency staff in (1) developing, implementing, and evaluating emergency drills and exercises, and (2) facilitating the public health aspects of larger, multiagency emergency exercise events. The toolkit provides essential guidance including templates, checklists, and forms to assist with every stage of the exercise process. Emphasis is on identification of objectives during the planning phase, a critical step for ensuring a meaningful post-exercise evaluation.

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Manual for the Management of Binational Tuberculosis Patients

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South Carolina Hep C Testing Protocol

This South Carolina hepatitis C testing protocol is very clear and thorough. South Carolina provided hepatitis C testing at local health department clinics for high risk individuals. This protocol gives specifics on how they determined risk, how to give risk status information to the client, and how to deliver positive and negative test results. Interestingly, this protocol was assessed for cost-effectiveness, and revisions included changing the "number of lifetime partners" risk category to "50 or more" to be elegible for testing at the health department in the absence of other risk factors.
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Dental Productivity Guidelines

Outlines Dental Productivity Guidelines, benchmarks and relevant procedures.

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Diabetes Handouts (Low Literacy)

FREE, Colorful, Low Literacy Patient Handouts related do Diabetes. Copies in Spanish/English on everything from “What is Diabetes?” to Health Living topics, Being Active, Medicine, Caring for Diabetes and more….

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Hepatitis Charting

This resource provides a straightforward tool to use to develop effective hepatitis risk assessment with adult clients through your clinic charting system.
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Domestic Violence Screening Low Literacy Form

This is a one page tool used by community health workers to evaluate individuals for family violence. The tool is designed for use with low literacy populations and uses pictures instead of words to communicate.
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Evaluation Tool for Physical Abuse, English and Spanish

One page tool to use in evaluating the possibility of physical abuse.

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Public Health Emergency Workbook for At-Risk Populations

The Workbook provides a process that can support state, local,and tribal planners as they advance in their efforts to reach all populations—and specifically, special populations—in day-today communication and during crisis or emergency situations.

The Workbook is divided into three primary sections, each representing a major stage in the process of communicating with special populations,and provides a baseline of research plus selected resources that should substantially reduce the work required of health departments to begin this process.