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Condie, Alise Williams; Judd, Hailey; Yaugher, Ashley C. – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
The opioid overdose epidemic continues to disproportionately impact underserved rural areas throughout the nation, with many of these rural areas experiencing greater opioid-related mortality rates than their urban counterparts. With limited treatment infrastructure and resources, two rural communities in Southeast Utah utilized community-based…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Drug Abuse, Drug Education, Community Education
Evan Roberts; Wendy Rahn; DeAnn Lazovich – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022
Early-life conditions are associated with mortality in men, but not studied to the same extent in women. We add new evidence by studying a cohort of women born between 1916 and 1931 and followed for mortality between 1986 and 2013. Our sample from Iowa includes a significant number of rural women, from both farms and small towns. The long-term…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Public Health, Mortality Rate, Rural Areas
Mary Nelson Robertson; Holli H. Seitz; Laura H. Downey; Alisha M. Hardman; Je'Kylynn S. Steen; David R. Buys – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
This study assesses adults' perceptions of and predictors of intention to use prescription drug take-back boxes. This mixed methods study utilized focus groups and an online survey to examine factors related to intention to use a prescription drug take-back box. This study was conducted in [State] during the spring and summer of 2018. Themes…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Drug Therapy, Pharmacy, Barriers
Janssen, Brandi; Curnick, Jacqueline – Science Education and Civic Engagement, 2022
Science Cafés are informal community gatherings that aim to facilitate the engagement of scientific researchers with the general public. These events have been implemented worldwide in rural and urban settings. This article evaluates two Science Café series, held in rural Iowa communities. Evaluation of Science Cafés typically consists of…
Descriptors: Informed Consent, Knowledge Level, Communication (Thought Transfer), Science Education
Gaudencio Gutiérrez-Alba; José Alberto Muños Hernández; Clara Juárez-Ramírez; Diana L. Reartes-Peñafiel; Hortensia Reyes-Morales – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Background: The main goal of a health system is to maintain or improve people's health. The COVID-19 pandemic showed the fragility of health systems worldwide. In Mexico, the pandemic affected the performance of the health system, along with the presence of contextual conditions such as its segmentation and high prevalence of chronic diseases.…
Descriptors: Public Health, Health Services, COVID-19, Pandemics
LeMasters, Katherine H.; Bledsoe, Sarah E.; Brooks, Jada; Chavis, Stephanie; Little, Erica; Pevia, Kim; Daniel, Leah; Jordan, Kiva; Schindler, Ann; Lightfoot, Alexandra F. – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Despite the persistent health inequities faced by rural women in the United States, few researchers have partnered with women in rural communities to co-create sustainable change. To fill this gap, Mothers Improving Pregnancy and Postpartum Health Outcomes Through stOry Sharing (MI-PHOTOS) employed a community-based participatory research (CBPR)…
Descriptors: Mothers, Rural Areas, Health Promotion, Public Health
Venkataraghavan, Manjula; Rani, Padma; Ashok, Lena; Rao, Chythra R.; Chandra Sekaran, Varalakshmi; Krishnapriya, T. K. – Health Education, 2022
Purpose: Physicians who are primary care providers in rural communities form an essential stakeholder group in rural mobile health (mHealth) delivery. This study was exploratory in nature and was conducted in Udupi district of Karnataka, India. The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of rural medical officers (MOs) (rural…
Descriptors: Physicians, Rural Areas, Medical Evaluation, Telecommunications
Sadeghzadeh, Claire; Sheppard, Brett; de Groot, Juliana; De Marco, Molly – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
In North Carolina, rural communities experience high rates of chronic illness due to health inequities exacerbated by the decline of major industries. Community gardens increase access to fresh produce and opportunities for physical activity and may offer additional benefits. These benefits can be difficult to measure as they are often unplanned…
Descriptors: Gardening, Public Health, Program Effectiveness, Rural Areas
Casapulla, Sharon; Gómez-Urrego, Guillermo; Madrid, Claudia; Iles, Chelsea; Keener, Chris; Viola, Jennifer; Sanchez, Alexandra; Orquera, Cristina; Kingori, Caroline – Health Education Journal, 2022
Objective: To determine the efficacy of using a narrative-based intervention to reduce HIV stigma among members of the general public in a rural community in Ecuador. Design: This cross-sectional intervention study involved a convenience sample of 133 participants from Cariamanga, Ecuador. We used a post-test only comparison group design. Setting:…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Social Bias, Intervention, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Hughes, Micah S.; Popoola, Victor O. – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2023
This study explored the racial bias perceptions of study abroad alumni following international learning experiences in East Africa. Ninety-seven participants, who completed a semester-long study abroad between Fall 2016-Spring 2019, were recruited into the study. Open-ended survey questions evaluated perceptions of racial bias, racial prejudice,…
Descriptors: Racism, Study Abroad, Student Attitudes, Racial Identification
Reilly, Janet; Zhu, Le; Hunt, Megan J. Olson; Hovarter, Rebecca; Flood, M. Brigid – Journal of School Nursing, 2021
The number of children who are obese and overweight continues as a public health challenge despite decades of research. The purpose of this article is to describe trends in body mass index (BMI) percentile data collected from 11- to 14-year-old school children in 2008-2009 and 2015-2016 in rural Wisconsin. The BMI percentiles from 1,347 students…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, School Nurses, Body Weight, Obesity
Elsie de Klerk; Elise Ryan; Melissa Nott; Elyce Green; Rebecca Barry – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2024
Rural health work-integrated learning exposes students to the unique features of rural professional practice and provides opportunities to improve students' work-readiness. Service learning placements delivered in rural settings seek to address the dual goals of student learning and meeting community identified needs. This research aimed to…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Undergraduate Students, Allied Health Occupations Education
Naomi Harada Thyden – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Health inequities by race are ubiquitous and persistent in the U.S., and structural racism is understood to be the cause. However, there has been relatively little research on structural racism as an exposure. This dissertation will describe three ways to conceptualize and measure structural racism with the end goal of intervening to reduce health…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Racism, Public Health, Data Collection
Jessica Drescher; Lily Steyer; Carrie Townley-Flores; Keith Humphreys – Grantee Submission, 2022
The potential spillover effects of the United States' opioid epidemic on children's educational outcomes have received surprisingly little attention from researchers. Accordingly, this study leverages national datasets of county-level opioid prescription rates and public school students' third- to eighth-grade academic achievement to provide the…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Academic Achievement, Educational Attainment, Incidence
Cacari Stone, Lisa; Avila, Magdalena; Duran, Bonnie – Health Education & Behavior, 2021
Purpose: Historical trauma has been widely applied to American Indian/Alaska Native and other Indigenous populations and includes dimensions of language, sociocultural, and land losses and associated physical and mental disorders, as well as economic hardships. Insufficient evidence remains on the experiences of historical trauma due to waves of…
Descriptors: Trauma, Epistemology, American Indians, History
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