This database produces and disseminates systematic reviews of healthcare interventions and promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies.
This agency has been a leading advocate and resource center for rural hospitals in the State of Texas for over 20 years.
What is TORCH, Texas Organization for Rural Community Hospitals.
www.torchnet.org
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This national nonprofit membership organization focuses on rural health issues and has multiple constituency groups, one of which is structured to represent group concerns relating to “Diverse Underserved Populations.”
This FQHC in Nacogdoches Texas serves the underserved community in that area. This facility is called a ___________ and is operated by_______________________.
What is a Federally Qualified Health Center, East Texas Community Health Services?
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The East Texas AHEC offers a program model to engage the community in economic development through health workforce planning. That program is the _____________model.
Your Community Health Research Project is going to relate to Health Reform. The ____________ Center has excellent resources and guides you need for your background information.
The State of Texas has a NCMHD Center of Excellence program. What does NCMHD stand for, and what is its mission?
What is the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities, which conducts and supports research initiatives focusing on eliminating health disparities?
http://ncmhd.nih.gov/default.html
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This site links over 10,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) provided by manufacturers and allows scientists and consumers to research products based on chemical ingredients.
This U.S. federal agency has multiple Centers, Institutes and Offices that respond to public health concerns and provide intra-agency resource sharing for issues and specific health threats. This site also is an online source for credible health information.
What is the CDC? Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; www.cdc.gov
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This Texas state agency maintains a population-based cancer incidence reporting system that collects, analyzes and disseminates information on all new cases of cancer.
You are looking at the CDC site on Workplace Safety and Health Topics and learn that “in 2008 456 farmers and farm workers died from a work-related injury for a fatality rate of 25.1 deaths per 100,000 workers. “ You are looking at what site and what specific web page?
This site acts as a storehouse for publications that have been contributed by agricultural safety specialists in many different states and agencies, including Texas.
These two organizations, one government-based and one university-based, provide expert perspective on rural health policies impacting rural communities and people.
You want to obtain Selected Health Facts regarding the Texas county in which your Family Medicine Continuity site is located. You will go to____________.
What is the Dept of State Health Services, Center of Health Statistics, CHS Reports, County Fact Sheets? www.dshs.state.tx.us/chs/cfs/
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You need a map showing Texas Population for 65 Years and Over for a presentation you are doing in class tomorrow on special rural populations. This fact finder site ________gives you that map.
The ________ ________ ___ ______ to End Health Disparities was established to mobilize a nationwide, comprehensive, community-driven and sustained approach to combating health disparities and to move the nation toward achieving health equity.