Sentences with phrase «studying rural health»

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The Poverty Committee is comrpised of Rev. Kinzer M. Pointer (Committee Chair) of Agape Fellowship Baptist Church; Frank Cerny, PhD., Executive Director of the Rural Outreach Center; Anna Falicov, Esq., City of Buffalo; Dr. Myron Glick of the Jericho Road Community Health Center; Yvonne S. Minor - Ragan, PhD., YMRagan Consulting, LLC; Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, PhD., Center for Urban Studies at the University at Buffalo; and Marlies A. Wesolowski, Executive Director of the Lt. Col. Matt Urban Human Services Center.

Published in The Journal of Rural Health, the study involved research nurses administering the first dose of the HPV vaccine series free of charge to Appalachian Kentucky women aged 18 - 26.

«These findings build on previous studies into disproportionate rates of diabetes prevalence and hold important clues for efforts aimed at preventing diabetes and better managing the disease,» said Jane Bolin, JD, PhD, BSN, co-researcher and director of the Southwest Rural Health Research Center at Texas A&M.

Governments could substantially reduce the tragic death toll of infants and mothers by making postnatal care services more accessible — especially to impoverished and poorly educated women in rural areas, according to a study published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization today.

Patients in small towns can save thousands of dollars in health care costs if their local rural hospital is part of a tele - emergency room network, according to a new study from the University of Iowa.

Using HUNT, a Norwegian population - based health cohort study based in a rural county with 130,000 residents, the Bristol Medical School team, with co-workers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, were able to see how mortality in the parents related to both their own BMI (the conventional approach) and to the BMI of their adult children.

«Research has long suggested people with heart disease in rural areas are at a disadvantage when it comes to access to health care and longevity,» says Dr. Sacha Bhatia, lead author of the study and a cardiologist at Women's College Hospital.

A new study, being released today as a Web First by Health Affairs, examines the effects of pay - for - performance, combined with capitation, in China's largely rural Ningxia Province.

The study, «Assessing the Potential Impact of State Policies on Community Health Centers» Outreach and Enrollment Activities,» is the first to examine efforts on the front lines to find and enroll uninsured people, many of whom are living in rural and urban communities that face high poverty rates, elevated health risks and a shortage of primary healthHealth Centers» Outreach and Enrollment Activities,» is the first to examine efforts on the front lines to find and enroll uninsured people, many of whom are living in rural and urban communities that face high poverty rates, elevated health risks and a shortage of primary healthhealth risks and a shortage of primary healthhealth care.

Although the initiative reached a limited geographic population, the HER Salt Lake team hopes to take this study further to increase access for women through provider training and stocking at community health centers and rural clinics.

All told, the average rural Chinese citizen consumes 12 grams of salt daily, according to the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study; the average American takes in 9 grams, while the daily maximum recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) is 5 grams.

«The study shows that midwives can safely handle the medicinal treatment of incomplete abortions in rural districts of Uganda with misoprostol,» said Dr. Kristina Gemzell Danielsson, Professor at the Department of Women's and Children's Health at Karolinska Institutet and Chief physician at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm.

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Jill was the co-founder of Agrosalud, a non-profit health care program in rural Guatemala and collaborated with the University of Miami Field Epidemiology Survey Team on projects in the San Blas archipelago in Panamá, including cholera intervention, scabies and head lice studies.

The Health and Retirement Study consists of older volunteers sampled from urban and rural areas across the U.S., while the Southern Community Cohort Study focuses on African Americans in the South, particularly areas that have a disproportionately high burden of disease.

I still have hope that living and eating healthily AND being a vegan is good for my health but am trying to keep an open mind... the massive study of the low cholesterol rural Chinese gives me even more hope that I'm on the right track!

this is a large scale population study with incredible health data comparing rural (vegan) vs. urban Chinese, duplicated in rats, much more compelling than just analyzing Bill Clinton, who I have heard did not stick to a vegan diet until recently after his last scare.

For example, as part of the ongoing, international Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiological (PURE) study, researchers used a dynamometer to measure grip strength in almost 140,000 adults in 17 countries, and they followed their health for an average of four years.

As part of the international Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiological (PURE) study, researchers measured grip strength in nearly 140,000 adults in 17 countries and followed their health for an average of four years.

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She includes inspiring stories from around the world — of resistance workers who organize to overthrow a dictatorship in Serbia; of groups of families who deepen their religious beliefs in affluent suburbia; of a sisterhood of lower - class women who train to become health workers in rural India; of study groups that raise the calculus achievement of black and Hispanic students on college campuses.

Health professionals studying the progression of untreated syphilis in rural African - American men preyed on these men, most of whom were poor, by misleading them about the purpose of the experiments.

FTC calls for data broker regulation — Depending on your income, habits, health and ethnicity, data brokers may label you an Urban Scramble, Rural Everlasting, Truckin» & Stylin», Bible Lifestyle or Plus - Size Apparel... (See FTC study)

Morris Animal Foundation has invested just over $ 500,000 in 15 research projects studying many different aspects of rabies infection, from vaccination strategies for bats to understanding the impact of rabies vaccination on the health or rural South African dogs and the surrounding community.

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ClimateAdaptAsia: Determinants and Effectiveness of Local - Level Adaptation to Climate Change: Case Studies of Two Bangladesh ministries, including the ministries of agriculture, environment and forest, water, health, rural development, food and disaster management, children and women affairs, relevant departments and NGOs have been implementing a number of local level adaptation (LLA) projects with their limited resources [continue reading...]

Through distance learning and collaboration with National Healthcareer Association ® (NHA), high schools in rural Texas and Alabama empower career tech programs and students with access to certification exams, preparation materials and study guides for allied health careers.

Setting The Great Smoky Mountains Study is a longitudinal study of the development of psychiatric disorder and need for mental health services in rural and urban yStudy is a longitudinal study of the development of psychiatric disorder and need for mental health services in rural and urban ystudy of the development of psychiatric disorder and need for mental health services in rural and urban youth.

Mr Wellington said supporting rural and remote allied health professionals to access CPD activities was vital to ensure the integrity of multidisciplinary care in these areas, and that failing to provide for students from the bush who wish to study for allied health professions was like «shooting ourselves in the foot» as it has been shown in numerous studies that students who originate from rural areas are likely to return to become part of the health workforce.

• Conference calls for a National Rural and Remote Health Workforce Plan that strategically links specific and generalist skills with emerging fields of study to provide high - quality team - based care to consumers and support for practitioners in rural and remote aRural and Remote Health Workforce Plan that strategically links specific and generalist skills with emerging fields of study to provide high - quality team - based care to consumers and support for practitioners in rural and remote arural and remote areas.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

Each of the speakers outlined personal stories and case studies to illustrate problems and solutions in rural health care.

A cross-sectional study of the effect of health literacy on diabetes prevention and control among elderly individuals with prediabetes in rural China

Methods and analysis The Regional South Australia Health (RESONATE) survey is a cross-sectional study of adult health consumers living in any private or non-private dwelling, in any regional, rural, remote or very remote area of South Australia and with an understanding of written EnHealth (RESONATE) survey is a cross-sectional study of adult health consumers living in any private or non-private dwelling, in any regional, rural, remote or very remote area of South Australia and with an understanding of written Enhealth consumers living in any private or non-private dwelling, in any regional, rural, remote or very remote area of South Australia and with an understanding of written English.

COI statement: Amy is studying Medicine on a Department of Health scholarship and is also a John Flynn scholar with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine.

The GSMS is a longitudinal study of the development of psychiatric disorder and need for mental health services in rural and urban youth.14 - 19 A representative sample of 3 cohorts of children, aged 9, 11, and 13 years at intake, was recruited from 11 counties in western North Carolina.

Cross-sectional population based study ascertaining the characteristics of US rural adults with mental health concerns who perceived a stigma regarding mental health issues

The National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA) has recently completed a study of food security, funded by the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC)(publication forthcoming through RIRDC and the NRHA).

Furthermore, the Committee, despite recent studies suggesting that Indigenous infant mortality has declined in the past years, remains concerned at the disparity in the health status between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children and at unequal access to health care experienced by children living in rural and remote areas.

Emma Walke, Lecturer from the University of Sydney's Centre for Rural Health in Lismore, discusses how her personal stories bring authenticity to Aboriginal health studies and how every health subject should ask as a standard question: how does it affect Indigenous hHealth in Lismore, discusses how her personal stories bring authenticity to Aboriginal health studies and how every health subject should ask as a standard question: how does it affect Indigenous hhealth studies and how every health subject should ask as a standard question: how does it affect Indigenous hhealth subject should ask as a standard question: how does it affect Indigenous healthhealth?

Attributes of effective Head Start mental health consultants: A mixed methods study of rural and urban programs (Unpublished dissertation).

[3] A further non-exhaustive list of organisations who have publicly expressed support for the campaign includes: Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory; Amnesty International Australia; Australian Catholic Bishops» Social Justice Committee; Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine; Australian Council of Social Services; Australian Council for International Development; Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies; Australian Nursing Federation; Australian Red Cross; Caritas Australia; Clinical Nurse Consultants Association of NSW; Diplomacy Training Program, University of New South Wales; Gnibi the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University; Human Rights Law Resource Centre; Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth; Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales; Jumbunna, University of Technology Sydney; Make Indigenous Poverty History campaign; National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Council; National Association of Community Legal Centres; National Children's and Youth Law Centre; National Rural Health Alliance; Public Health Association of Australia; Quaker Services Australia; Rural Doctors Association of Australia; Save the Children Australia; Sax Institute; Sisters of Mercy Aboriginal Network NSW; Sisters of Mercy Justice Network Asia Pacific; UNICEF Australia; and the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation.