Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Populations
Achieving Health Equity: How Academic Medicine Is Addressing the Social Determinants of Health
Includes essays on healthcare challenges faced by rural veterans and on the characteristics of rural immersion training programs for physicians.
Date: 2016
Sponsoring organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
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Includes essays on healthcare challenges faced by rural veterans and on the characteristics of rural immersion training programs for physicians.
Date: 2016
Sponsoring organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
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Cancer Screening on the Hopi Reservation: A Model for Success in a Native American Community
Highlights a study on a cancer screening model implemented on the Hopi reservation in Arizona. Evaluates the effectiveness of the Hopi Cancer Support Services' efforts in maintaining breast and cervical cancer screenings and increasing colorectal cancer screening among Hopi women.
Author(s): Sylvia R. Brown, Lori Joshweseoma, Kathylynn Saboda, et al.
Citation: Journal of Community Health, 40(6), 1165-1172
Date: 12/2015
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Highlights a study on a cancer screening model implemented on the Hopi reservation in Arizona. Evaluates the effectiveness of the Hopi Cancer Support Services' efforts in maintaining breast and cervical cancer screenings and increasing colorectal cancer screening among Hopi women.
Author(s): Sylvia R. Brown, Lori Joshweseoma, Kathylynn Saboda, et al.
Citation: Journal of Community Health, 40(6), 1165-1172
Date: 12/2015
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Adapting an Evidence-based Curriculum in a Rural Setting: Implementing "Reducing the Risk" in Kentucky
Summarizes the experience of 2 local health departments in rural areas of Kentucky as they implemented a comprehensive sex education and teen pregnancy program during 2013-2015 school years as part of required high school health classes.
Author(s): Rachel Shapiro, Robert G. Wood
Date: 12/2015
Sponsoring organization: Administration for Children and Families
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Summarizes the experience of 2 local health departments in rural areas of Kentucky as they implemented a comprehensive sex education and teen pregnancy program during 2013-2015 school years as part of required high school health classes.
Author(s): Rachel Shapiro, Robert G. Wood
Date: 12/2015
Sponsoring organization: Administration for Children and Families
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Examining the Role of a Community Coalition in Facilitating Policy and Environmental Changes to Promote Physical Activity: The Case of Get Fit Kaua'i
Examines Get Fit Kauai, a community coalition that brought changes in built environment (BE) policies and infrastructure changes to rural Hawaii. Describes how the community coalition developed a theory to explain the process of the community coalition facilitating BE change to support physical activity.
Author(s): Lehua B. Choy, Jay E. Maddock, Beverley Brody, Katherine L. Richards, Kathryn L. Braun
Citation: Translational Behavioral Medicine, 6(4), 638-647
Date: 12/2015
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Examines Get Fit Kauai, a community coalition that brought changes in built environment (BE) policies and infrastructure changes to rural Hawaii. Describes how the community coalition developed a theory to explain the process of the community coalition facilitating BE change to support physical activity.
Author(s): Lehua B. Choy, Jay E. Maddock, Beverley Brody, Katherine L. Richards, Kathryn L. Braun
Citation: Translational Behavioral Medicine, 6(4), 638-647
Date: 12/2015
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Father Involvement and Young, Rural African American Men's Engagement in Substance Misuse and Multiple Sexual Partnerships
Reports on a study analyzing the association of biological father and social father involvement with their male children with predicted development or engagement in risk behaviors of young rural men living in the South.
Author(s): Allen W. Barton, Steven M. Kogan, Junhan Cho, Geoffrey L. Brown
Citation: American Journal of Community Psychology, 56(3-4), 241–251
Date: 12/2015
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Reports on a study analyzing the association of biological father and social father involvement with their male children with predicted development or engagement in risk behaviors of young rural men living in the South.
Author(s): Allen W. Barton, Steven M. Kogan, Junhan Cho, Geoffrey L. Brown
Citation: American Journal of Community Psychology, 56(3-4), 241–251
Date: 12/2015
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Heat Illness Among North Carolina Latino Farmworkers
Analyzes a survey of North Carolina Latino male farmworkers describing the prevalence of heat illness and other factors associated with heat illness.
Author(s): Thomas A. Arcury, Phillip Summers, Jennifer W. Talton, et al.
Citation: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 57(12), 1299-1304
Date: 12/2015
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Analyzes a survey of North Carolina Latino male farmworkers describing the prevalence of heat illness and other factors associated with heat illness.
Author(s): Thomas A. Arcury, Phillip Summers, Jennifer W. Talton, et al.
Citation: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 57(12), 1299-1304
Date: 12/2015
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The Oglala Sioux Tribe CHOICES Program: Modifying an Existing Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancy Intervention for Use in an American Indian Community
Describes how an existing alcohol-exposed pregnancy prevention program, Project CHOICES, for non-pregnant women was modified and integrated within an American Indian community to prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). Provides the steps necessary to develop a similar program at another tribal or rural site.
Author(s): Jessica D. Hanson, Susan Pourier
Citation: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13(1), 1
Date: 12/2015
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Describes how an existing alcohol-exposed pregnancy prevention program, Project CHOICES, for non-pregnant women was modified and integrated within an American Indian community to prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). Provides the steps necessary to develop a similar program at another tribal or rural site.
Author(s): Jessica D. Hanson, Susan Pourier
Citation: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13(1), 1
Date: 12/2015
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Project ARCH: Initial Summary of Findings Relevant to the Choice Program
Provides an assessment of Project ARCH (Access Received Closer to Home), a congressionally legislated pilot program operated under the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Chief Business Office (CBO), and funded by the VHA Office of Rural Health (ORH). The focus of Project ARCH was to increase access to cost effective non-VA medical care. Results of this assessment may inform the implementation of the Veteran's Choice program.
Author(s): Keith J. Mueller, Clint MacKinney, Fred Ullrich, et al.
Date: 12/2015
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
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Provides an assessment of Project ARCH (Access Received Closer to Home), a congressionally legislated pilot program operated under the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Chief Business Office (CBO), and funded by the VHA Office of Rural Health (ORH). The focus of Project ARCH was to increase access to cost effective non-VA medical care. Results of this assessment may inform the implementation of the Veteran's Choice program.
Author(s): Keith J. Mueller, Clint MacKinney, Fred Ullrich, et al.
Date: 12/2015
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
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Child Poverty in Rural America
Policy brief describing the needs, challenges, and experiences of rural children and families living in poverty and how poverty affects their health. Offers recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop appropriate and integrated health and human service delivery programs and to create flexible grant opportunities that will reach children and families in need.
Date: 12/2015
Sponsoring organization: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
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Policy brief describing the needs, challenges, and experiences of rural children and families living in poverty and how poverty affects their health. Offers recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop appropriate and integrated health and human service delivery programs and to create flexible grant opportunities that will reach children and families in need.
Date: 12/2015
Sponsoring organization: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
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Negotiating Peril: The Lived Experience of Rural, Low-Income Women Exposed to IPV During Pregnancy and Postpartum
Study of intimate partner violence (IPV) experienced by rural women from pregnancy to 2 years postpartum, drawing from interviews with 10 women. Highlights factors that impede interventions to help pregnant or new mothers out of abusive situations.
Author(s): Camille Burnett, Donna Schminkey, Juliane Milburn, et al.
Citation: Violence Against Women, 22(8), 943-965
Date: 11/2015
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Study of intimate partner violence (IPV) experienced by rural women from pregnancy to 2 years postpartum, drawing from interviews with 10 women. Highlights factors that impede interventions to help pregnant or new mothers out of abusive situations.
Author(s): Camille Burnett, Donna Schminkey, Juliane Milburn, et al.
Citation: Violence Against Women, 22(8), 943-965
Date: 11/2015
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