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Crosby, Richard

Rural Populations and Health: Determinants, Disparities, and Solutions

Crosby, Richard - Rural Populations and Health: Determinants, Disparities, and Solutions, ebook

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Health-related disparities remain a persistent, serious problem across the nation's more than 60 million rural residents. Rural Populations and Health provides an overview of the critical issues surrounding rural health and offers a strong theoretical and evidence-based rationale for rectifying rural health disparities in the United States.

This edited collection includes a comprehensive examination of myriad issues in rural health and rural health care services, as well as a road map for reducing disparities, building capacity and collaboration, and applying prevention research in rural areas. This textbook offers a review of rural health systems in Colorado, Kentucky, Alabama, and Iowa, and features contributions from key leaders in rural public health throughout the United States.

Rural Populations and Health examines vital health issues such as:

  • Health assessment
  • Strategies for building rural coalitions
  • Promoting rural adolescent health
  • Rural food disparities
  • Promoting oral health in rural areas
  • Physical activity in rural communities
  • Preventing farm-related injuries
  • Addressing mental health issues
  • Cancer prevention and control in rural communities
  • Reducing rural tobacco use

Rural Populations and Health is an important resource for students, faculty, and researchers in public health, preventive medicine, public health nursing, social work, and sociology.

Keywords: health disparities and key issues in rural public health, History of public health and health care in rural communities, Health systems and population-level prevention in rural America, Rural health care coalition building, health care and community-campus partnerships, capacity-building infrastructure development and leadership in rural communities, promoting maternal and child health in rural communities, adolescent health in rural communities, oral health in rural communities, community food systems in rural communities, physical activity infrastructure in rural communities, injury prevention in rural communities, tobacco control in rural communities

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Publisher
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Publication year
2012
Language
en
Edition
1
Page amount
416 pages
Category
Medicine, Health Care, Mode
Format
Ebook
eISBN (ePUB)
9781118235485

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