Texas A&M gets $2.8 million grant to research critical health issues facing rural America

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- The Texas A&M Southwest Rural Health Research Center at the Texas A&M School of Public Health was awarded a 4-year, $2.8 million grant as one of seven cooperative research center agreements funded nationally by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to research critical health issues facing rural populations in the nation.

The center will be addressing, among other things, the effects of the Affordable Care Act ating areas on the rural health insurance marketplace; rural prescription drug (opioid) use and abuse, including behavioral health consequences; rural health information technology (HIT) and eHealth; maternal, child and infant poverty and rural-urban health disparities in breastfeeding; and rural environmental health contaminants and exposures in children.

The center is the home of Rural Healthy People 2010 and during this past year,released the much-anticipated update Rural Healthy People 2020, a companion document to Healthy People 2020. To receive a free electronic or hardcopy version, visit sph.tamhsc.edu/srhrc/.

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