Rural Health Equity Resources

Resources 

• This video by the National Rural Health Resource Center defines and describes health equity and how it can be addressed within rural communities. Leaders will better understand the unique strengths and challenges rural communities experience in addressing health equity and the social influencers of health and discover ways hospitals can advance health equity.
• With the support of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), this report by the National Rural Health Resource Center held a virtual summit with leaders in rural health care policy, health equity, value-based care, and clinical quality to address health equity in rural communities. The report is intended to identify the association between rural health equity and health care cost, discover barriers that prevent health equity in rural communities and identify best practices and innovative models to achieve health equity in rural communities.
• This brief, developed by the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH), aims to define population health and health equity, with particular attention to the nuances of rural clinical partners.
• The Rural Health Equity Toolkit by Rural Health Information Hub compiles evidence-based frameworks and promising strategies and resources to support organizations working toward health equity in rural communities across the U.S. The toolkit provides resources focused on developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining rural programs that focus on health equity.
• MDHHS provides an overview of equity and the importance of prioritizing inequities by engaging members to identify, understand, and prioritize inequities. This resource offers multiple resources, including equity pursuit tools, practical convening tools, shared vision, and goals tools, engaged diverse partners tools, aligned systems tools, and adaptive learning and improvement processes tools.
• The American Hospital Association toolkit focuses on developing healthcare community partnership strategies to help expand healthcare services, eliminate inequities, and improve health equity.
• Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) provides health equity resources, including recommended first steps, online training, articles to read, books, and in-person training