Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Racial and ethnic groups
Health in Rural Missouri: Minority Health
Provides an overview of minority health in rural Missouri. Includes county-level information on African American and Hispanic populations. Describes minority health disparities, healthcare resources, and incarceration in rural areas.
Date: 2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Missouri Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
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Provides an overview of minority health in rural Missouri. Includes county-level information on African American and Hispanic populations. Describes minority health disparities, healthcare resources, and incarceration in rural areas.
Date: 2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Missouri Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
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Achievement of the Health-related Millennium Development Goals in the Western Pacific Region 2016: Transitioning to the Sustainable Development Goals
Describes progress toward meeting goals to improve health in Western Pacific countries and territories. Features statistics on child mortality, maternal health, immunization rates, incidence of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, and access to clean water and sanitation.
Date: 2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office
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Describes progress toward meeting goals to improve health in Western Pacific countries and territories. Features statistics on child mortality, maternal health, immunization rates, incidence of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, and access to clean water and sanitation.
Date: 2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office
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Elder Mistreatment in Underserved Populations: Opportunities and Challenges to Developing a Contemporary Program of Research
Explores gaps in current knowledge, identifies barriers that have slowed progress in research, and offers recommendations to advance the field of elder mistreatment in underserved populations.
Author(s): Lori L. Jervis, Sherry Hamby, Scott R. Beach, et al.
Citation: Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 28(4-5), 301-319
Date: 2016
Type: Document
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Explores gaps in current knowledge, identifies barriers that have slowed progress in research, and offers recommendations to advance the field of elder mistreatment in underserved populations.
Author(s): Lori L. Jervis, Sherry Hamby, Scott R. Beach, et al.
Citation: Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 28(4-5), 301-319
Date: 2016
Type: Document
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Ethnic Identity Attachment and Motivation for Weight Loss and Exercise Among Rural, Overweight, African-American Women
Reports the results of a survey and assessment examining motivation for weight loss and exercise in overweight African American women in the South, specifically exploring connections with ethnicity and rurality. Includes a discussion of racial identity, rural influence, and chronic disease diagnosis.
Author(s): K. Bryant Smalley, Jacob Warren, Sydney McClendon, Wilburn Peacock, Marisol Caro
Citation: Clinical Medicine Insights: Women's Health, 9(Suppl 1), 95-101
Date: 2016
Type: Document
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Reports the results of a survey and assessment examining motivation for weight loss and exercise in overweight African American women in the South, specifically exploring connections with ethnicity and rurality. Includes a discussion of racial identity, rural influence, and chronic disease diagnosis.
Author(s): K. Bryant Smalley, Jacob Warren, Sydney McClendon, Wilburn Peacock, Marisol Caro
Citation: Clinical Medicine Insights: Women's Health, 9(Suppl 1), 95-101
Date: 2016
Type: Document
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Access to Capital and Credit in Native Communities
Includes ideas to help federal and tribal policymakers improve capital and credit access in Native Communities and provides an informational baseline for stakeholders, to help provide a means to finance public sector projects such as healthcare facilities. Features statistics on topics including socioeconomic standing, housing, credit scores, and mortgage lending.
Author(s): Miriam Jorgensen
Date: 2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Native Nations Institute
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Includes ideas to help federal and tribal policymakers improve capital and credit access in Native Communities and provides an informational baseline for stakeholders, to help provide a means to finance public sector projects such as healthcare facilities. Features statistics on topics including socioeconomic standing, housing, credit scores, and mortgage lending.
Author(s): Miriam Jorgensen
Date: 2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Native Nations Institute
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Montana 2016 Suicide Mortality Review Team Report
Highlights findings and recommendations from the Montana Suicide Mortality Review Team based on an analysis of 555 suicides in Montana. Provides suicide and related data by county for youth, American Indian, and veteran populations.
Date: 2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services
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Highlights findings and recommendations from the Montana Suicide Mortality Review Team based on an analysis of 555 suicides in Montana. Provides suicide and related data by county for youth, American Indian, and veteran populations.
Date: 2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services
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Closing Gaps in Native American Health
Describes health disparities between Wisconsin Native Americans and their White peers, with discussion of how new Medicaid policies could result in increased access to health services, improved care coordination for tribal health patients, and additional support for Indian Health Service providers. Features statistics including infant mortality rates, age-adjusted mortality rate, diabetes and cancer age-adjusted mortality rates, suicide rates, and average age of death.
Date: 2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
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Describes health disparities between Wisconsin Native Americans and their White peers, with discussion of how new Medicaid policies could result in increased access to health services, improved care coordination for tribal health patients, and additional support for Indian Health Service providers. Features statistics including infant mortality rates, age-adjusted mortality rate, diabetes and cancer age-adjusted mortality rates, suicide rates, and average age of death.
Date: 2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
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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
Type: Document
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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
Type: Document
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Improving the Respiratory Health of Alaska Native People Through Home-Based Inventions
Lists simple home modifications that can be performed to help prevent acute respiratory disease in Alaska Native children, which account for roughly two-thirds of child hospitalizations in rural Alaska.
Date: 12/2015
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
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Lists simple home modifications that can be performed to help prevent acute respiratory disease in Alaska Native children, which account for roughly two-thirds of child hospitalizations in rural Alaska.
Date: 12/2015
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
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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
Type: Document
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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
Type: Document
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