rural health

This piece of the Thrive Rural Framework, the Systems-Level Building Blocks, includes driving forces and conditions that are in larger systems outside the direct control of individual rural communities or regions.

This piece of the Thrive Rural Framework, the Local-Level Building Blocks, includes conditions on the ground in rural places and regions that individual rural communities or regions can act on by themselves.

The Foundational Element of the Thrive Rural Framework requires identifying and dismantling historical and ongoing discriminatory practices that disadvantage rural people and places.

The Thrive Rural Framework helps you take stock, target action, and gauge progress on rural prosperity. We invite everyone involved in rural development to use it to spark new ways of thinking and acting to move communities, regions, and systems toward equitable rural prosperity.

This first in the Thrive Rural Field Perspective Series highlights how accelerating connections between health and development can propel rural prosperity.  

What are the pathways of influence for public health and health care to foster more prosperous, equitable and sustainable communities across rural America? This field scan provides an understanding of the state of relevant health fields in the rural United States.

What must happen for economic development to foster a more prosperous, healthier, equitable and environmentally sustainable rural America? This scan of field practices and trends advances our answer to this question.