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Barnidge, Ellen K.; Baker, Elizabeth A.; Motton, Freda; Fitzgerald, Teresa; Rose, Frank – Health Education & Behavior, 2011
Health disparities are a major concern in the United States. Research suggests that inequitable distribution of money, power, and resources shape the circumstances for daily life and create and exacerbate health disparities. In rural communities, inequitable distribution of these structural factors seems to limit employment opportunities. The…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Public Health, Rural Areas, Employment Opportunities
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Maughan, Erin – Journal of School Nursing, 2009
This paper is the second of a two-part series examining factors influencing school nurse to pupil staffing ratios. The paper reports data from a qualitative study exploring the social and political factors that potentially influence ratios. Interviews were conducted with 30 key state informants from these states. Content analysis of the data…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Consultants, Attitudes, Social Influences
Goertz, Margaret E. – 1982
The project described in this paper was designed to test specific ways of improving the dissemination of school finance information in two big city school districts (St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri), in order to enable them to compete more effectively for State aid. Part I presents the political and fiscal environment in which Kansas City and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Services, Fiscal Capacity