Publications

The Office provides information about rural health to health care providers, legislators and government officials, educators, and members of the public. The following publications are available from the Oregon Office of Rural Health. Many are in Adobe Portable Document Format for you to download.  If you would like a hard copy of a publication please include publication name and date in an e-mail to Robert Duehmig, duehmigr@ohsu.edu, or call 503-494-4450.

• Maps
• Oregon's Rural Health Clinics Report - 2008
• Health Districts in Oregon - 2007
  
• ABCs of Health Care in Oregon
• Rural Health 101 - a PowerPoint presentation
• Oregon Federally Certified Rural Health Clinics - February, 2005
• Health Care Outside the I-5 Corridor - an updated PowerPoint presentation, August, 2005
• Outside the I-5 Corridor - a PowerPoint presentation, January, 2005
• Oregon EMS 2004 Survey:  Preliminary Results - a PowerPoint presentation, 2004
• Federal Policy and Rural Health Care -  a PowerPoint presentation, 2003
• Oregon Rural Health Plan - 1999
• Health Care in Rural Oregon Update - 1999
• Assessing Health Care Needs in Rural Oregon - 1998
• Oregon Health Care Legislation - 1997
• Physician Resources In Oregon: A Sourcebook - 1996
• Retention of Health Care Practitioners in Rural Oregon - March, 1995
• Determining the Level of Medical Under service for Rural Oregon - 1994
• Physicians in Oregon: A Sourcebook - 1992-1994
• Oregon's Rural Populations - September, 1994
• Coordinated Managed Care: A Handbook for Rural Providers - 1992
• Health Care Practitioners in Rural Oregon: An Update - 1992

The Oregon Office of Rural Health has a 6 page demographic, socioeconomic, and health status profile for each of the 104 rural service areas shown on our Unmet Healthcare Need map.  This information is updated continuously.  Here is a sample (for Lakeview, OR) in Adobe Acrobat format.  If you would like to have a free profile sent to you, please contact Emerson Ong at (503) 494-5226, or at onge@ohsu.edu. For those who require the entire set of 104 six-page rural service area profiles, a $200 fee will be charged to offset data and labor costs.

See our Rural Definitions page for more information on unmet need designations, definitions of "service area",  and HPSA, and MUA designations.

• A map of all physicians in Oregon by county per 1,000 - (2006) (2005) (2004)
• A map of all primary care physicians in Oregon by county per 1,000 - (2006) (2005) (2004)

For more physician data for Oregon go to the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners, http://www.oregon.gov/OMB/statistics.shtml.

Maps indicating where the uninsured are in Oregon.

• 2002 Uninsured Map
• 2004 Uninsured Map
• 2006 Uninsured Map

If you would like more information about the uninsured in Oregon go to the Oregon Health Plan and Policy web site.

The Area Health Education Centers Program has an education module on Chronic Pain Management. A clinician's Handbook, Forms and Contracts for clinicians, and Web Resources are available.  The goal of the handbook is to assist clinicians in managing adult patients with chronic non-malignant pain. This information is based on current consensus guidelines, expert opinion and studies when available. Despite an obvious need, the medical literature does not yet contain the high quality randomized controlled trials required to establish evidenced-based clinical standards for the management of chronic non-malignant pain.

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