Overview
- Editors:
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Sana Loue
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Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
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Beth E. Quill
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University of Texas, Houston, Houston, USA
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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- Sana Loue, Hal Morgenstern
Pages 25-33
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- Lu Ann Aday, Beth E. Quill, Cielito C. Reyes-Gibby
Pages 45-72
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- Roberta D. Baer, Janice Nichols
Pages 73-102
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- Bruce W. Goldberg, Marie Napolitano
Pages 103-117
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- Patricia Winstead-Fry, Elizabeth Wheeler
Pages 135-156
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- Neva Abbott, Karen Olness
Pages 157-172
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- Keith B. Armitage, Gary I. Sinclair
Pages 173-187
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- Leslie K. Dennis, Stacie L. Pallotta
Pages 189-207
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- Bruce Lubotsky Levin, Ardis Hanson
Pages 241-256
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- L. A. Rebhun, Helena Hansen
Pages 257-276
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- John P. Elder, Guadalupe X. Ayala, Marion F. Zabinski, Judith J. Prochaska, Christine A. Gehrman
Pages 295-314
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- James Robinson III, Jeffrey J. Guidry
Pages 337-353
About this book
This book integrates the expertise of profession tion available on the various health concerns and als from a broad array of disciplines-anthro subpopulations and by the numerous method pology, health services research, epidemiology, ological complexities in compiling the neces medicine, dentistry, health promotion, and so sary data. Recognition of the nuances within and cial work-in an examination of rural health across rural populations, as recommended here, care and rural health research. This investiga will allow us to provide care more efficiently tion includes an inquiry into issues that are uni and effectively and to prevent disease or ame versal across rural populations, such as public liorate its effects. Reliance on some of the newer health issues and issues of equity in health care. technologies and approaches discussed here, Several chapters explore the health care issues such as distance learning and broad-based, com that confront specified subpopulations includ munity-wide health initiatives, will facilitate ing, for instance, migrant workers and Native disease treatment and prevention in relatively Americans, while others provide a more focused isolated areas. Ultimately, all of us must work approach to diseases that may disproportionately to ensure the availability of adequate health care have an impact on residents of rural areas, such to even the most isolated communities, for "as as specific chronic and infectious diseases.
Editors and Affiliations
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Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
Sana Loue
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University of Texas, Houston, Houston, USA
Beth E. Quill