Tip sheets, handouts from the speakers
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What drives rural health issues? Looking for the answers
• Ellen Barnidge, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor in behavioral science and health education, St. Louis University [Presentation]
• Sarah Gehlert, Ph.D., E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity, Brown School, Washington University [Presentation]
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The food and health disconnection: Hunger in rural America
• Joel Halverson, assistant professor, School of Pharmacy/Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, West Virginia University [Presentation]
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Reporting on people and providers: Medicare's impact in your community
• Tom Dean, M.D., family practice physician Avera Weskota Memorial Medical [Presentation]
• Timothy D. McBride, Ph.D., professor and associate dean for public health, Brown School, Washington University [Presentation]
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Prescription abuse: A deadly rural problem
[Tips and resources compiled from all speakers]
• Kristine Bowers, membership service coordinator, Coalition on Appalachian Substance Abuse [Presentation]
• Alison Knezevich, The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette
♦ Presentation
♦ Pillage: Rx drug abuse in W.Va.
Recent national stories of interest:
♦ When Children's Scribbles Hide a Prison Drug
♦ Why it's so hard to win the war against U.S. oxycodone epidemic
• Laura Ungar, medical writer, Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal [Prescription for Tragedy]
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Workforce stories: When health care becomes scarce
[Resources]
• Gary M. Wiltz, M.D., chief executive officer, Teche Action Clinic, Franklin, La. [Presentation]
• Moderator: Irene Wielawski, independent journalist, Pound Ridge, N.Y.
[State Primary Care Development Strategies, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology: To Improve Health and Health Care, Volume VI]
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Floods, tornadoes and health: Covering disaster preparation and aftermath
• William D. Hacker, M.D., F.A.A.P., C.P.E.; commissioner, Kentucky Department for Public Health [Presentation]
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