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Background The Healthy Aging in Rural Towns (HeART) Toolkit contains guidelines and resources for conducting a needs-and-assets assessment and for choosing strategies to strengthen your community’s support network and help older adults thrive. Tips and anecdotes have been added by the authors based on their experiences from projects conducted in 2018–2019 in three rural Wisconsin… Read more »

Background Catalyst films are short films made of narratives – interviews of people discussing their health experiences and experiences receiving health care – designed to ensure that an improvement, co-design or educational process includes health experiences and to catalyze meaningful and active participation of patients in activities. They are both a patient engagement/co-design method and a participatory… Read more »

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Background The University of Wisconsin – Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) Community–Academic Partnerships component (ICTR-CAP) supports statewide multi-disciplinary, community-partnered research to solve problems in translating knowledge into improvements in clinical practice, community health programs, and health policy with the goal of improving human health and reducing health disparities. UW ICTR-CAP is organized… Read more »

Background COVID-19 vaccination may be off to a slow start, but soon supply levels will rise and processes will be streamlined. Thoughtfully designed outreach with well-crafted messages will be of the utmost importance to ensure enough people are vaccinated to put us on the path to population immunity and long-term protection from the disease. As… Read more »

Background In United States primary care, helping patients with depression is a daily crisis. Over the past decade, Collaborative Care has emerged as the new standard for depression treatment in primary care. Recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force, this model speeds improvement through increased engagement, symptom monitoring and rapid treatment adjustment. While… Read more »

Background Since its discovery, COVID-19 has affected families, economies, and communities. Scientists and researchers have worked nonstop since the beginning of the pandemic to develop vaccinations to fight against the novel coronavirus. Upon approval, vaccination supplies will need to be distributed to adults, and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) has published a… Read more »

Where people live, and the health-related characteristics of their communities, has a significant impact on the health and health outcomes of residents. Differences in health care quality and outcomes for rural and urban populations has been a focus of national priority and attention. These differences can be attributed to a number of factors, including socioeconomic… Read more »

Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, patients may be avoiding medical attention for their conditions for fear of catching the virus or because they are sheltering at home. Health systems have also rapidly transformed care delivery by delaying elective care and shifting to telehealth. There is concern that some patients, particularly those with multiple chronic conditions,… Read more »

Background About 1.45 million individuals in Wisconsin, or 18.75%, have some mental or behavioral health issues, and the percentage of major depressive episodes for adults aged 18 and over is 6.56%.1,2 The economic impact of poor mental health in Wisconsin adds up to $9 billion annually, with depression alone costing Wisconsin $800 million annually.1 The mental health… Read more »