Arizona Rural Health Plan
The Arizona Rural Health Plan 2005-2007 provides a road map on how to strengthen the rural health infrastructure in the state as well as how to enhance access to health services by rural residents. It reflects Arizona’s unique rural, cultural, and geographic characteristics, including 21 federally recognized America Indian tribes and the state’s 350-mile wide contiguous border with Mexico. The Arizona Rural Health Plan was developed through a statewide effort that included an advisory committee representing rural health experts, health providers, and policy makers. Read more...
Health Information Technology Forum
Arizona’s rural healthcare system is gaining more knowledge and seeking more leverage in the many uses of information technology. On November 14, 2005, a forum, Information Technology in Rural Arizona: A Tool to Improve Healthcare Workforce Recruitment and Retention, Quality & Education addressed the current conditions and recommend future directions in these related areas: information infrastructure, electronic health records, distance education, workforce and quality improvement. Read more...
Information for Action
RHO staff planned and helped to implement the sixth annual Information for Action conference (Tucson, October 27-28, 2005), a binational conference with four keynote speakers and approximately 70 presentations in the areas of Gender and Health, Adolescent and Child Health, Chronic Diseases, Community Health and Family Violence. The conference was attended by approximately 200 participants.
The Info for Action conference provided an opportunity for researchers in public health and medical fields to share information with community activists and non-governmental agencies addressing health issues in their own communities and in the field. Participants identified areas of collaboration, policy and emerging knowledge to improve health in the Arizona-Sonora border region.
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