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Hafner, John W.; Hough, Scott M.; Getz, Marjorie A.; Whitehurst, Yvette; Pearl, Richard H. – Journal of Rural Health, 2010
Context: All-terrain vehicles' (ATVs) popularity and associated injuries among children are increasing in the United States. Currently, most known ATV use pattern data are obtained from injured youth and little documented data exist characterizing the typical ATV use patterns and safety practices among American children in general. Purpose: To…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Safety, Prevention, Injuries
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Marlenga, Barbara; Pahwa, Punam; Hagel, Louise; Dosman, James; Pickett, William – Journal of Rural Health, 2010
Objectives: To characterize working hours of adult farm owner-operators and their spouses by season, and to examine associations between working hours and farm safety practices affecting children. Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis of cross-sectional survey data collected as part of an existing study of injury and its determinants.…
Descriptors: Working Hours, Spouses, Child Safety, Parent Child Relationship
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Liu, Jihong; Bennett, Kevin J.; Harun, Nusrat; Probst, Janice C. – Journal of Rural Health, 2008
Context: Few studies have examined the prevalence of overweight status and physical inactivity among children and adolescents living in rural America. Purpose: We examined urban and rural differences in the prevalence of overweight status and physical inactivity among US children. Methods: Data were drawn from the 2003 National Survey of…
Descriptors: Obesity, Body Composition, Intervention, Incidence
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Gray, James B., Jr.; Cannon, Geneva – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1989
Reviews a systems theory approach to the development of community-based suicide prevention programs. Describes the Lifelines model of youth suicide prevention, and discusses the feasibility of implementing this model in rural and isolated areas. Contains 19 references and an outline of procedures for crisis intervention and aftercare. (SV)
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Children, Crisis Intervention
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Philo, Chris – Journal of Rural Studies, 1992
Critiques Colin Ward's "The Child in the Country," which illuminates the personal geographies of children in rural Britain, as structured from without and experienced from within; augments sociocultural geography concerns about the importance of space and place in "other" people's lives; and provides new possibilities for rural…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Book Reviews, Children, Disadvantaged Environment
Jankovic, Joanne, Ed.; And Others – 1980
Producing a much-needed organized body of literature about rural juvenile justice, 14 papers (largely from the 1979 National Symposium on Rural Justice) are organized to identify current issues, identify forces causing changes in current systems, review programs responding to rural juvenile justice problems, and provide planning models to aid…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Responsibility, Children, Crime