The National Grange: A Rural Community Resource to Increase the Reach of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in the United States.

Our objectives were to review the Grange as a rural community organization with the potential to increase the reach of public health efforts. We examined seven years of Grange member newsletters and publications for content pieces that reflected a public health focus and organized our findings according to the Healthy People 2020 five determinant areas within the Social Determinants of Health. Results: We found ample evidence of overlap between the goal and objectives of public health and those of the Grange.