This toolkit provides evidence-based examples, promising models, best practices, and resources that your organization can use to implement programs for tobacco control and prevention. There are seven modules in this toolkit. Each module contains information and links to resources that your organization can use to design, implement, evaluate, sustain, and disseminate rural programs for tobacco control and prevention.

Organization: RHIhub

Date: July 2017

The Atlas assembles statistics on three broad categories of socioeconomic factors: People; Jobs; County classification. Users can: View county-level maps for socioeconomic indicators; View the entire country or zoom into specific regions, States, or county areas; For any county, view a pop-up window showing data for the indicators in the broad category for that county, with the option to download the selection.

Organization: USDA Economic Research Service

Date: Updated throughout the year

The Playbook addresses occupational exposure to a potentially infectious patient. What information should call takers relay to responders before they arrive on scene? How should responders react if they unexpectedly encounter a patient they suspect has an infectious disease? Where can medical directors find information to incorporate in standard operating procedures?

Organizations: HHS and ASPR Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange (TRACIE)

Date: June 2017

This report provides insight into promising practices, and it shows where states are on track or falling short on road safety, home and community safety, and workplace safety. It offers a bird's-eye view of safety policies and legislation that can help us reduce preventable deaths from things like distracted driving, prescription painkillers and falls.

Organization: National Safety Council
Date: June 2017

The findings of the Survey offer insight into the level of proficiency and training of EMS practitioners who provide the medical response expected by communities during disasters and mass casualty incidents.

Organization: National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT)

Date: May 2017

Rural Wisconsin Health 2017 provides a snapshot of health in rural Wisconsin through a compilation of health-related data.

Organization: Wisconsin Office of Rural Health

Date: June 2017

This toolkit is designed for use by SORH as a starting point for promoting and implementing NRHD activities. The information provided is simply a guide. Every SORH has a different level of capacity for carrying out the ideas and resources out- lined in the toolkit. It’s up to each Office to choose what to put into action. This toolkit can also be used by state-wide partners to encourage to promote NRHD within their communities.

Organization: National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health

This report presents an annual overview of national trends in health statistics. It contains a Chartbook that assesses the nation's health by presenting trends and current information on selected measures of morbidity, mortality, health care utilization and access, health risk factors, prevention, health insurance, and personal health care expenditures. This year's Chartbook includes a Special Feature on racial and ethnic health disparities.

Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This report helps to raise awareness of the vital role hospitals play in their communities, both as a provider of health care services and as major economic contributors. The report focuses on hospitals and does not include independent physician’s offices, dentists or residential care facilities.

Organization: University of Wisconsin-Cooperative Extension Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and the Wisconsin Hospital Association

This project tracks the well-being of children in the United States. It seeks to enrich local, state and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children — and to raise the visibility of children's issues through a nonpartisan, evidence-based lens. The 2017 Data Book urged state and federal policymakers not to back away from targeted investments that are proving to help U.S. children become healthier, more likely to complete high school and better positioned to contribute to the nation’s economy as adults.