Website Search Results for: outdoor
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Date: 2023
Summary of a National Academies' Environmental Health Matters Initiative workshop in June 2023 discussing differences in outcomes for extreme heat. Highlights challenges with data gathering, recent policy changes, capacity building, and partnerships. Includes discussion of rural specific challenges, occupational health for farmworkers and other outdoor workers, and healthcare access.
...outdoor workers, and healthcare access. --- Communities, Climate Change, and Health Equity: Lessons Learned in Addressing...
Date: Sep 2022
Presents a study comparing sun exposure for people living in rural versus urban areas. Looks at sun exposure from leisure time activities and outdoor work for both rural and urban people.
...outdoor work for both rural and urban people. --- Incidental Sun Exposures as a Source of Sunburn...
Date: Sep 2025
Presents a study on perceptions and beliefs about sun-protective behavior among rural Minnesotans. Breaks down data by demographic characteristics, such as age, education, and whether participants had an outdoor job, among other measures. Looks at time spent outside and discusses participants' perceptions about protective behaviors.
...outdoor job, among other measures. Looks at time spent outside and discusses participants' perceptions about...
Date: Aug 2013
Identifies indoor and outdoor air pollution issues and areas of concern for the Yukon-Kuskokwim and Ahtna regions of Alaska. Includes demographics and primary and secondary home heating practices for both regions.
...outdoor air pollution issues and areas of concern for the Yukon-Kuskokwim and Ahtna regions...
Date: Nov 2018
Reports on a cross-sectional study comparing the physical activity, sleep quality, and physical and mental health of cancer survivors with cancer-free individuals in medically underserved areas of rural Virginia. Evaluates the relationship between sleep quality, average sleep time, and self-reported outdoor activity with predicted mental health and quality of life. The Harvard Food Frequency Questionnaire, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and RAND 36-Item Health Survey were used to collect data on dietary intake, sleep quality, and physical activity.
...outdoor activity with predicted mental health and quality of life. The Harvard Food Frequency Questionnaire...
Reviewed: Mar 6, 2026
Information, resources, and frequently asked questions regarding a variety of social and environmental factors impacting the health experiences of rural residents.
...Outdoor air quality is critical to everyone's health, and is particularly a concern for children...
Date: May 17, 2017
Lyme and other tick-borne illnesses have become the most prolific zoonotic diseases in our nation. Because of their proximity to tick environments, rural areas are more susceptible. In this article, we hear from a Lyme disease patient, a scientist, psychiatrist, nonprofit leader, and a medical doctor about the spread and what's being done about it. - The Rural Monitor
...outdoor activities like cutting and splitting firewood Lankow's case was classic. Her bull's-eye rash...
Date: Aug 2021
Study examining trail audit methods and the potential benefits of the Spatial-temporal Trail Audit Tool (STAT) for rural communities looking to assess and improve trail systems to motivate outdoor physical activity. Describes the process of creating geospatial videos of 2 trails in Ohio by attaching a camera to a bicycle. Discusses the importance of physical activity and trails to rural population health.
...outdoor physical activity. Describes the process of creating geospatial videos of 2 trails in Ohio...
Date: Jun 2022
Examines worry of harm from exposure to indoor (IAP) and outdoor (OAP) air pollution in relationship to public health. Analyzes 3,630 participant responses from the Health Information National Trends Survey by sex, age, race/ethnicity, education, income, rurality, and cancer risk. Discusses sociodemographic factors in relation to environmental risk communication and intervention strategies.
...outdoor (OAP) air pollution in relationship to public health. Analyzes 3,630 participant responses from...
Date: Jan 9, 2019
Rural Americans of all ages often go without eye healthcare, a gap that has obvious consequences: blindness and low vision. National associations and an FQHC administrator talk about how rural vision care can be improved to increase quality of life and prevent disability in rural patients. - The Rural Monitor
...outdoor time and more screen time. That outdoor time can be critical for eye development...