Rural Health Return on Investment

The Community Health Systems Development Team at the Georgia Health Policy Center has developed a return on investment calculator designed especially for rural health grantees. The calculator is a tool for estimating the economic benefits to a community nd the money that is invested in that work for the following types of programs:

• diabetes management and prevention
• hypertension management and prevention
• coronary heart disease management and prevention
• obesity management and prevention
• depression management
• alcoholism management and prevention
• smoking cessation