Rural Health Care Access, Partnership Profiles

Because access to quality health care is a growing problem for minorities and the poor in rural Georgia, Morehouse School of Medicine partnered with Georgia Public Broadcasting. Eliminating Health Care Disparities in Rural Georgia examined the issues through radio programming and shared findings in a live town hall meeting broadcast.

KASU-FM joined forces with the Arkansas Southern Rural Access Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in NEAR Health Careers. The project aimed to inform high school students about hometown rural health careers that will make life better for everyone. The project profiled students from Northeastern Arkansas enrolled in health care programs in a series of radio features. ASRAP developed a website targeting high school teachers that contains the radio programs as well as information on health care related educational programs.

Promoting Health Careers was a project of low power radio station WYRC and the Center for Rural Health Development, Inc. Through targetted outreach to teenagers, including health fairs, brochures and posters, the project promoted health careers among students from rural areas of the state.