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Submissions from 2020

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Assessing Community Assets & Opportunities — A Case Study of Asset Mapping in Penobscot, Piscataquis, & Hancock Counties, Mara Sanchez, Erica King, Jillian Foley, and Casey Benner

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Asset Mapping in Androscoggin County: A Case Study, Mara Sanchez MPPM, Erica King MSW, and Starsha Schiller

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Adaptation or Revolution: Telemental Health and Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing During COVID-19, Rebecca A. Schroeder DNP, MPH, PMHNP

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Downeast Maine MAT Expansion Project: Year 2 Data Summary, Mary Lindsey Smith PhD, Evelyn Ali BS, and Tyler Egeland BA

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Project Support You: Addressing the Opioid Epidemic through Community Collaboration and Education. Tri-County Mental Health [Infographic], Mary Lindsey Smith PhD, Evelyn Ali BS, Rachel M. Gallo MPH, and Tyler Egeland BA

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Recovery and Opioid Addiction Resources (ROAR): Summary of Kennebec Behavioral Health Focus Group, Mary Lindsey Smith PhD, Evelyn Ali BS, Katie Rosingana BA, Mark Richards BS, Rachel M. Gallo MPH, and Tyler Egeland BA

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MAT Program Patient Satisfaction Survey: MeHAF Addiction Care Grant Year 3, Mary Lindsey Smith PhD, Rachel M. Gallo MPH, and Evelyn Ali BS

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York Hospital Recovery Center's Medication-Assisted Treatment Program. MeHAF Addiction Care Grant Year 3, Mary Lindsey Smith PhD, Rachel M. Gallo MPH, and Olivia Dooley MPA

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Expanding Low Barrier Access to Medication Assisted Treatment: Issue Brief, Mary Lindsey Smith PhD, Frances Jimenez BA, and Katie Rosingana BA

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Healthy Acadia MeHAF Addiction Care Program. Year Three Summary, Mary Lindsey Smith PhD, Katie Rosingana BA, Evelyn Ali BS, Rachel M. Gallo MPH, and Tyler Egeland BA

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Health Access Network: MeHAF Addiction Care Program, Mary Lindsey Smith PhD, Katie Rosingana BA, Rachel M. Gallo MPH, and Evelyn Ali BS

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Evaluation of Maine DOC’s Medication-Assisted Treatment Pilot Program, Mary Lindsey Smith PhD, MSW; George Shaler MPH; Olivia Dooley MPA; and Evelyn Ali BS

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Interim Evaluation Report by the Independent Evaluator for the New Hampshire Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) Program, Mary Lindsey Smith PhD; Deborah Thayer MBA; Katie Rosingana BA; Catherine McGuire BS; Rachel M. Gallo MPH; Evelyn Ali BS; Olivia Dooley MPA; Carolyn Gray MPH; Tom Merrill MA; Karen Pearson MLIS, MA; and Mark Richards BS

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The Role of the Opioid Crisis in Elder Abuse, Kimberly I. Snow MHSA, Jennifer Pratt, and Stuart Bratesman MPP

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Early Childhood in Portland: Perspectives on Child Care and Development, Emilie Swenson MSW and Susy Hawes

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Telebehavioral health (TBH) use among rural medicaid beneficiaries: Relationships with telehealth policies, Jean A. Talbot PhD, Yvonne Jonk PhD, Amanda Burgess MPPM, Deborah Thayer, Nathan Paluso MPH, and Andrew F. Coburn PhD

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Virtually possible: using telehealth to bring reproductive health care to women with opioid use disorder in rural Maine, Terri-Ann Thompson, Katherine A. Ahrens PhD, and Leah Coplon

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Policy instruments to reduce consumption of expanded polystyrene food service ware in the USA, Travis P. Wagner

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Process of Identifying Measures and Data Elements for the HRSA School-Based Telehealth Network Grant Program, Marcia M. Ward PhD; Kimberley Fox MPA; Kimberly Merchant; Amanda Burgess MPPM, MPH; Fred Ullrich; Karen Pearson MLIS, MA; George Shaler MPH; Christopher Shea; Steve North; and Carlos Mena

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Health Care Use and Access among Rural and Urban Nonelderly Adult Medicare Beneficiaries, Erika C. Ziller PhD, Amanda Burgess MPPM, and Deborah Thayer MBA

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Rural-Urban Residence and Mortality among Three Cohorts of U.S. Adults, Erika C. Ziller PhD; Jennifer D. Lenardson MHS; and Katherine A. Ahrens MPH, PhD

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A Century Later: Rural Public Health's Enduring Challenges and Opportunities., Erika C. Ziller PhD and Carly Milkowski MPH

Publications from 2019

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Animals, Women and Terms of Abuse: Towards a Cultural Etymology of Con(e)y, Cunny, Cunt and C*nt, Piers Beirne PhD

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Fertility: A Parable, Michael Bendzela MA

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What Is Rural? Challenges and Implications of Definitions that Inadequately Encompass Rural People and Places., Kevin J Bennett PhD; Tyrone F Borders PhD; George M. Holmes PhD; Katy Backes Kozhimannil PhD, MPA; and Erika C. Ziller PhD