Rural Health

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Community-Driven Intervention in Tuftonboro, New Hampshire, Succeeds in Altering Water Testing Behavior. 
  • A clinical trial of oral therapy in a rural cholera-treatment center. 
  • A randomized controlled trial of household-based flocculant-disinfectant drinking water treatment for diarrhea prevention in rural Guatemala. 
  • A randomized longitudinal factorial design to assess malaria vector control and disease management interventions in rural Tanzania. 
  • A structural approach to examining prostate cancer risk for rural southern African American men. 
  • Absconders from a rural health centre in Papua New Guinea. 
  • An intradisciplinary team in a nurse managed center. 
  • Analysis of strategies to attract and retain rural health workers in Cambodia, China, and Vietnam and context influencing their outcomes. 
  • Are we failing vulnerable workers? The case of black women in poultry processing in rural North Carolina. 
  • Associations of elevated interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein levels with mortality in the elderly. 
  • Attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide among physicians in Vermont. 
  • Attrition in general surgery residency: can global and rural surgery shift the paradigm? 
  • Back in the Day: Nostalgia Frames Rural Residents' Perspectives on Diet and Physical Activity. 
  • COPD and Rural Health: A Dialogue on the National Action Plan. 
  • Characteristics of HIV-infected adults in the Deep South and their utilization of mental health services: A rural vs. urban comparison. 
  • Characteristics of sexual partnerships, not just of individuals, are associated with condom use and recent HIV infection in rural South Africa. 
  • Child mortality: Villages project responds to criticism. 
  • Childhood sexual trauma and subsequent parenting beliefs and behaviors. 
  • Chiropractic Use, Health Care Expenditures, and Health Outcomes for Rural and Nonrural Individuals With Arthritis. 
  • Cooperative medical schemes in contemporary rural China. 
  • Defining the rural HIV epidemic: correlations of 3 definitions--South Carolina, 2005-2011. 
  • Determinants of Uncontrolled Hypertension in Rural Communities in South Asia-Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. 
  • Determinants of hypertension in West Africa: contribution of anthropometric and dietary factors to urban-rural and socioeconomic gradients. 
  • Diarrhoeal disease in Bangladesh: epidemiology, mortality averted and costs at a rural treatment centre. 
  • Drug-resistant tuberculosis control in China: progress and challenges. 
  • Effect of a structural intervention for the prevention of intimate-partner violence and HIV in rural South Africa: a cluster randomised trial. 
  • Errors in a paper on the Millennium Villages project. 
  • Esophageal eosinophilia is increased in rural areas with low population density: results from a national pathology database. 
  • Ethnic and sex differences in serum levels of cartilage oligomeric matrix protein: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • Ethnic subgroup differences in hypertension in Pakistan. 
  • Evaluation of a dried blood spot HIV-1 RNA program for early infant diagnosis and viral load monitoring at rural and remote healthcare facilities. 
  • Explaining continued high HIV prevalence in South Africa: socioeconomic factors, HIV incidence and sexual behaviour change among a rural cohort, 2001-2004. 
  • Exploration of work and health disparities among black women employed in poultry processing in the rural south. 
  • Exploring associations between physical activity and perceived and objective measures of the built environment. 
  • Factors affecting delays in tuberculosis diagnosis in rural China: a case study in four counties in Shandong Province. 
  • Feasibility, acceptability and cost of home-based HIV testing in rural Kenya. 
  • Fibromyalgia in rheumatology practice: a survey of Canadian rheumatologists. 
  • Financing health care in rural China: preliminary report of a nationwide study. 
  • Focus on rural health. Preface. 
  • Headaches and psychopathology in children and adolescents. 
  • Health work force planning in the 90s, Part II: Enough in the right place at the right time? 
  • Helping nurse-midwives provide obstetrical care in rural North Carolina. 
  • Household based treatment of drinking water with flocculant-disinfectant for preventing diarrhoea in areas with turbid source water in rural western Kenya: cluster randomised controlled trial. 
  • How effectively can the New Cooperative Medical Scheme reduce catastrophic health expenditure for the poor and non-poor in rural China? 
  • Improving the quality of rural nursing care. 
  • Incidence and Risk of Suicide Among Patients With Head and Neck Cancer in Rural, Urban, and Metropolitan Areas. 
  • Incidence and severity of rotavirus and Escherichia coli diarrhoea in rural Bangladesh. Implications for vaccine development. 
  • Increased prevalence of advanced tuberculosis in rural low tuberculosis caseload counties in North Carolina. 
  • Increasing obstetrical care access to the rural poor. 
  • Initiatives to improve access to behavioral health services in the Veterans Affairs Health System. 
  • Introduction of voluntary counselling and rapid testing for HIV in rural South Africa: from theory to practice. 
  • Linking clinical and public health approaches to improve access to health care for socially disadvantaged mothers and children. A feasibility study. 
  • Mapping routine measles vaccination in low- and middle-income countries. 
  • Maternal depression in rural Pakistan: the protective associations with cultural postpartum practices. 
  • Medical education in China for the 21st century: the context for change. 
  • Medical education in the community: a Nigerian experience. 
  • Morbidity and mortality disparities among colonist and indigenous populations in the Ecuadorian Amazon. 
  • Mortality and loss to follow-up among HAART initiators in rural South Africa. 
  • Mortality rates in conflict zones in Karen, Karenni, and Mon states in eastern Burma. 
  • Musculoskeletal symptoms among poultry processing workers and a community comparison group: Black women in low-wage jobs in the rural South. 
  • Neighborhood clustering of non-communicable diseases: results from a community-based study in Northern Tanzania. 
  • Nursing patient safety research in rural health care settings. 
  • Older adults in North Carolina. A demographic and health status profile. 
  • One state's response to the malpractice insurance crisis: North Carolina's Rural Obstetrical Care Incentive Program. 
  • Oral misoprostol in preventing postpartum haemorrhage in resource-poor communities: a randomised controlled trial. 
  • Orphan status, HIV risk behavior, and mental health among adolescents in rural Kenya. 
  • Paradise lost?: rural life and nutritional well being in the 21st century. 
  • Perceived acceptability of home-based couples voluntary HIV counseling and testing in Northern Tanzania. 
  • Physician attire in the intensive care unit in Japan influences visitors' perception of care. 
  • Poverty, race/ethnicity, and psychiatric disorder: a study of rural children. 
  • Pre-Pregnancy Hypertension Among Women in Rural and Urban Areas of the United States. 
  • Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Karnataka, India. 
  • Prevalence of childhood sexual abuse and physical trauma in an HIV-positive sample from the deep south. 
  • Psychiatric disorder, impairment, and service use in rural African American and white youth. 
  • Psychological morbidity of Thai families of a person with schizophrenia. 
  • Responses of 6500 households to arsenic mitigation in Araihazar, Bangladesh. 
  • Risk factor dynamics, mortality and life expectancy differences between eastern and western Finland: the Finnish Cohorts of the Seven Countries Study. 
  • Risk factors for human anthrax among contacts of anthrax-infected livestock in Kazakhstan. 
  • Risk of napping: excessive daytime sleepiness and mortality in an older community population. 
  • Root caries patterns and risk factors of middle-aged and elderly people in China. 
  • Rural preceptorship program for baccalaureate students. 
  • Rural-urban blood lead differences in North Carolina children. 
  • Rural-urban differences in HIV viral loads and progression to AIDS among new HIV cases. 
  • Self-rated health in Pakistan: results of a national health survey. 
  • Social capital and hypertension in rural Haitian women. 
  • Socio-economic status and malaria-related outcomes in Mvomero District, Tanzania. 
  • Spirituality, Coping, and Resilience Among Rural Residents Living with Chronic Kidney Disease. 
  • Tackling the challenges to health equity in China. 
  • Taming the wilderness: the lifestyle improvement movement in rural Japan, 1925-1965. 
  • Technologies for global health. 
  • Ten-year impacts of China's rural health scheme: lessons for universal health coverage. 
  • The Rising Rate of Rural Hospital Closures. 
  • The association between school attendance, HIV infection and sexual behaviour among young people in rural South Africa. 
  • The effect of a practice-based multicomponent intervention that includes health coaching on medication adherence and blood pressure control in rural primary care. 
  • The effect of an integrated multisector model for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and improving child survival in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a non-randomised controlled assessment. 
  • The effect of rural residence on dental unmet need for children with special health care needs. 
  • The effect of women's status on infant and child mortality in four rural areas of Bangladesh. 
  • The effects of rural residence and other social vulnerabilities on subjective measures of unmet need. 
  • The impact of primary health care on malaria morbidity--defining access by disease burden. 
  • The impact of smoking and quitting on household expenditure patterns and medical care costs in China. 
  • Threading the Needle--How to Stop the HIV Outbreak in Rural Indiana. 
  • Undiagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis deaths in rural South Africa. 
  • Upstream watershed condition predicts rural children's health across 35 developing countries. 
  • Urban-Rural Mortality Disparities from Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases in the United States, 1999-2019. 
  • Using health and demographic surveillance to understand the burden of disease in populations: the case of tuberculosis in rural South Africa. 
  • Utilisation of maternal health care in western rural China under a new rural health insurance system (New Co-operative Medical System). 
  • Why have surgeons moved to the country? 
  • Widely varying HIV prevalence and risk behaviours among the ethnic minority peoples of northern Thailand. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Broverman, Sherryl A., Professor of the Practice of Biology, Biology
  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine