The Bill Lane Center for the American West and Stanford Medicine are pleased to co-issue this white paper on telehealth in the rural American West. The paper builds upon the Lane Center’s earlier work from our Rural West Initiative, as well as ongoing research by our undergraduate teams who have been exploring connections between environment and health in the American West.
Read Gabrielle Torrance's honors thesis on upward mobility in rural America.
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This spring, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, we may feel as if we are living in a parallel universe, a universe focused sharply on finding a workable response.
The impact in our rural states is to add significant stress to their already compromised health care capacity. Workable responses must understand and include that reality. Rural America has an older, sicker, and poorer population than the rest of the nation and fewer resources to care for them.
Justin Farrell sits down with Bruce Cain to discuss his new book. This hour-long talk includes a talk by Professor Farrell on his book and some of its findings as well as a question and answer back-and-forth with the live audience.
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What is the "rural West?" In this presentation, the Bill Lane Center's Geoff McGhee offers definitions of "rural" from several U.S. agencies. He posits that rural Western America is defined by a number of factors, including distance, large amounts of public land, tribal lands and reservations, and disconnectedness.
Esparto, an unincorporated municipality in California’s Central Valley, could be almost any small town of the rural American West. It developed around a train station established by subsidiaries of the Southern Pacific Railroad Co., under Leland Stanford’s direction, in 1888. For the better part of the ensuing century, Esparto’s prosperity was caught up in the vicissitudes of railroad profitability. After the railway withdrew operations in the late 1950s, local businesses, services and population began to decline.
Berens and Polakoff meditate on the recent COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on rural Americans in an op-ed published in the Omaha World-Herald.
As part of the 2019 Healthier Rural West Summit, join David Kennedy, the Lane Center’s co-founding director as he traces the great paradox of the Rural West, which is both the most urban region (based on where people live) and most rural region (measured by how much territory is classified as rural).
The 2016 Eccles Rural West Conference offered a day and a half of wide-ranging conversation and debate about the past, present, and future of the rural American West.
Phillip Polakoff, MD, talked with the Future Hindsight podcast about how an emphasis on prevention coupled with innovations in healthcare access and delivery can help us share greater health and equity for all Americans.
Dr. Polakoff is an affiliated scholar with the Bill Lane Center for the American West. He will be leading a summit on rural health care in Salt Lake City in March 2019.
