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Community Wellness: A Group Empowerment Model for Rural America.
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Jenkins, Susan – Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 1991
Describes the economic and demographic changes experienced by rural communities over the past few years and how they have increased rural health professionals' responsibilities. Presents the Community Wellness program and four case histories illustrating how it has strengthened community infrastructure, developed human capital, and created rural…
Descriptors: Clinics, Community Health Services, Community Involvement, Community Resources
Rural Community Mental Health Prevention Through the Mass Media.
Brawley-Martinez, Emilia E.; Brawley, Edward A. – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1985
Demonstrates how rural news media can be used effectively and without substantial cost for consultation, education, and prevention activities in mental health care. Offers suggestions on packaging free rural mental health activities, lists categories of prevention activities readily accomplished through media, and provides specific rural examples.…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Community Information Services, Information Dissemination, Information Needs
Mental Health and Native Americans: Responding to the Challenge of the Biopsychosocial Model.
Marburg, Galen Sanford – White Cloud Journal, 1983
A rural, hospital-based, community mental health program at Keams Canyon Indian Hospital (Arizona) utilizes an array of remedial, developmental, and preventive strategies to respond to the unique biopsychosocial needs of the Navajo and Hopi populations. Outpatient, outreach, and aftercare programs, and development of treatment and consulting…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Consultation Programs, Cultural Influences, Delivery Systems
The Wellness Mobile: Bringing Preventative Health Services to Rural Communities.
Nilson, Ralph; And Others – Small Town, 1996
The Wellness Mobile transports medical supplies, equipment, informational materials, and staff to rural Saskatchewan communities to assist them in developing wellness programs that stress disease prevention. Staff from the Wellness Mobile offer health-risk screening and appraisal to community members and work with local practitioners and schools…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Community Health Services, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
Appalachian Health Care: The Struggle to Reach Remote Areas.
Flannery, Maureen – Appalachia, 1982
Supports renewed funding of the Appalachian Regional Commission's (ARC) "finish-up health plan" and "highway finish-up program." Discusses at length the need for primary care services, prevention of infant mortality, and the lack of physicians in Appalachia, and how the ARC plans can affect these needs. (LC)
Descriptors: Clinics, Community Health Services, Financial Support, Health Needs
It's Hard to Get from Here to There: Early Intervention for Rural Young Children in Arkansas
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Marsh, Carolyn; Casey, Patrick H. – Zero to Three, 2006
The Kids First program at the University of Arkansas Medical School (UAMS) is an outgrowth of the Infant Health and Development Program, a randomized trial of an early intervention approach for premature, low birth weight children, which showed that intensive intervention had significant initial benefits in the cognitive development and behavior…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Child Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Parent Participation