Rural Health : Workforce

Healthcare Workforce

This page includes articles related to the healthcare workforce in rural areas. Databases, licensed at Northeastern University Library, are recommended for conducting literature searches. Workforce is also tied to education. What initiatives or course programs introduce rural health? The Education page has more.

Physicians and Healthcare

Increasing the Rural Physician Workforce: A Potential Role for Small Rural Medical School Campuses (2016)
Article: Journal of Rural Health, Vol. 32, Iss. 3, pages 254-259
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Thirty Years Training Rural Physicians: Outcomes From the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine Rural Physician Program (2016)
Article in Academic Medicine, January 2016, Volume 91, Iss.1, p 113–119
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List of articles on Physician Retention
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Covid-19 Impact:

Getting Health Care Was Already Tough In Rural Areas. The Pandemic Has Made It Worse
October 7, 20205:00 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition

SEARCHING FOR ARTICLES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

CINAHL Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
For professions that might fall under "allied health", along with nurses. the CINAHL database (Cumulative Index to Allied Health Literature) is focused on publications in those fields.
Nursing dissertations, National League for Nursing and American Nurses' Association publications, selected conference proceedings, evidence-based Care Sheets, and 250+ research instrument descriptions. Features CINAHL Headings - controlled vocabulary search terms for more precise, comprehensive search results.
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Nurses and Other Health Professionals

Always think about the search terms/words that fit your topic best. It can be helpful to write out a question.

Are nurses involved in telehealth in rural areas? Terms: nurses, telehealth (is there a specific aspect of this?), rural area (community, location, remote area, etc)

Using the suggested terms in CINAHL this search was run: ( nurse or nurses or nursing ) AND ( telehealth or telemedicine or telemonitoring or telepractice or telenursing or telecare ) AND ( rural areas or rural communities )
- it yielded 244 results on 4/7/22
- a review of the results showed promise but I could narrow it down if I am not interested in education or school nurses. These are some of the options to consider.
- Here are a couple titles as examples of results I might choose:
  - Older people and rural eHealth: perceptions of caring relations and their effects on engagement in digital primary health care. in Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, nurse relationships were mentioned as important
  - Meeting the Challenge of Perinatal Care in Rural Communities, in Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing, looking at this article I see that a subject heading "Rural Health Nursing" could be worth using in a search

Mental Health: counselors, therapists/social workers

PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
American Psychological Associations flagship PsycINFO database includes citations and abstracts of peer reviewed articles, books, and dissertations. Coverage from 1888 to the present. Full text links where available.
Documents indexed include journals, articles, books, dissertations and more. 90% of the 3,000+ titles indexed in PsycINFO are peer-reviewed.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
A select collection of full-text articles in psychology from chiefly peer-reviewed journals.
Social Sciences Premium Collection (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
includes several databases education, politics, criminology collections as well as the social science database that covers psychology and social work
Journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more, Social Sciences Premium includes

Sociology Database
Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
PAIS Index
Political Science Database
PolicyFile
Criminal Justice Database
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
Library Science Database
Library & Information Science Abstracts
Education Database
ERIC
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
Linguistics Database
Social Science Database
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Social Services Abstracts (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development.
Including the family, human services, social welfare, gerontology, support groups, poverty and homelessness and community development. Major areas of coverage include community and mental health services.

Education

Recruiting Rural Healthcare Providers Today: a Systematic Review of Training Program Success and Determinants of Geographic Choices (2018)
Article in Journal of General Internal Medicine, Vol. 3, Iss. 2, 191–199. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-017-4210-z
Available in PubMed Central
They Enrolled In Medical School To Practice Rural Medicine. What Happened?
Kaiser Health News (2019)

Rural Health : Workforce

Physicians and Healthcare

Education

RSS from PubMed: Rural Provider-Patient Relations