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Healthy People 2020 Progress for Leading Causes of Death in Rural and Urban America: A Chartbook
(2020-03)
Rural Americans have historically faced significant challenges in accessing healthcare and preventive healthcare services, including ambulatory care, dental care, emergency services, and pharmaceutical services. Rural ...
Are Rural Infants Benefiting from WIC Food Package Rule Changes? Breastfeeding and Infant Feeding Behaviors
(2020-02)
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides healthy foods and services to low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, as well as to infants and ...
Diabetes Mortality in Rural America: 1999-2015
(2017-08)
One of the most important tasks for rural scholars and policymakers is to better understand the causes and consequences of diabetes, as diabetes prevalence is generally higher in rural areas than urban areas. This study ...
Post-Acute Skilled Nursing Care Availability in Rural United States
(2020-07)
This study explores factors related to post-acute skilled nursing care utilization in rural areas of the U.S. The analyses uses county-level Area Health Resource Files, National Center for Health Statistics Urban-Rural ...
Cancer Mortality in Rural America
(2018-11)
For scholars and policymakers alike, understanding the burden of cancer on society is a critical topic for investigation. Cancer consistently ranks as the second leading cause of death in the U.S., and cancers of the ...
Community Health Worker Roles and Responsibilities in Rural and Urban America
(2019-11)
This project investigated the Community Health Worker (CHW) field in rural and urban environments using a series of focus groups of CHWs in four states. Our findings suggest that there is not a "typical" CHW. Despite this, ...
Rural Versus Urban Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence-Related Emergency Department Visits, 2009-2014
(2020-08)
This retrospective study examines the prevalence of IPV-related emergency department (ED) visits by rural and urban status and U.S. census regions using discharge data from the National Emergency Department Sample. Key ...
REPRESENTATION FOR A CHANGE: WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT AND THE CHICANA/O CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN TEXAS
(2020-07-21)
“Representation for a Change: Women in Government and the Chicana/o Civil Rights Movement in Texas,” links Chicana politics to American politics in the twentieth and twenty-first century. The story of Chicanas in the ...