New in our Exploring Rural Health podcast: we talk to Alana Knudson, Luciana Rocha, and Paula Swepson about health equity.
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Our Rural Emergency Preparedness and Response Toolkit is featured in this new article from The Daily Yonder

Multi-sector collaborations bring partners together to advance health equity and support healthy, thriving communities. This strategy (and others) are in our Rural Health Equity Toolkit ow.ly/a1Yj50LGe7e

#Rural communities are wonderful places to live and work, which is why nearly 61 million people call them home.

#NationalRuralHealthDay is an opportunity to celebrate the #PowerOfRural by honoring the selfless, community-minded spirit that prevails in rural America.

It’s #NRHD2022 ! See our NEW Toolkit: Rural Emergency Preparedness and Response. Learn more about how rural and tribal communities, healthcare providers, and others can plan for, respond to, and recover from disasters and public health emergencies. #PowerofRural

Today is the day! Happy #NationalRuralHealthDay ! Shout out to the incredible communities, organizations, and individuals who demonstrate the #powerofrural today and every day!

A8: Grant funding from federal agencies, philanthropic organizations, and other organizations may help programs improve rural health literacy. Our toolkit has more info on funding and sustainability #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/healt…

A8: The @CMSgov Office of Minority Health (OMH) recognizes that improving health literacy can advance health equity. Health literacy is a priority area in the CMS Framework for Health Equity #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural cms.gov/about-cms/agen…

A8: The Rural Health Literacy #Toolkit has evidence-based and promising strategies rural communities can adapt to improve personal and organizational health literacy #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/healt…

A8: Our #Rural Health Literacy #Toolkit is a one-stop-shop for strategies and resources to improve rural health literacy @ruralhealthfo Anton #Rural HealthChat #PowerofRural ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/healt…

Q8: Please share resources, materials, tools, and funding opportunities that can help rural health literacy. #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural

A7: Teaching health literacy skills at a young age may improve cognitive, physical, and emotional development processes for youth and may help with future health decision making #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural

A7: Leadership and community support are needed to improve organizational health literacy. Embedding health equity principles overall can also help rural organizations meet the health literacy needs of the people they serve #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural

A7: To improve health literacy, rural programs can incorporate health literacy into professional training, medical and residency training, certificate programs, and other continuing medical education #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural

A7: Community champions can help make rural health literacy programs successful. Champions are known and trusted by the community and can bring a sense of legitimacy and value to the goals of a program #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural

Q7: What tips do you have for communities and states working to improve health literacy? #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural

A6: Bi-State Primary Care Association is implementing the Vermont Food Access in Health Care consortium that focuses on health literacy by improving provider/patient communication to manage and understand dietary changes for health conditions #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/healt…

A6: Using the train-the-trainer model, a program at HSL at UNC-CH empowers library staff to answer questions about health services and increase community awareness of trustworthy sources for health information #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/healt…

A6: Lake Okeechobee Rural Health Network, Inc. LORHN provides health literacy education workshops called Your Health Matters and education about health insurance enrollment and financial literacy #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/healt…

A6: The Salud y Vida con Amigos project from Doña Ana County uses CHWs/Promotoras to identify health literacy challenges and increase the availability, acceptability, and use of COVID-19 information and services #RuralHealthChat #PowerofRural ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/healt…