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Rural Health Disparities by
This innovative resource offers a unique, multidisciplinary approach for the utilization of planning theory to eliminate health disparities in rural communities. The book provides tools in the public health, policy, and planning disciplines to help resolve significant differences in life expectancy and quality of life in these communities, concluding with a progressive vision for alleviating geographical health disparities on a local, national, and global scale. Chapters highlight models and approaches best suited to addressing this public health concern, suggesting action strategies focused around each of the three focus areas: 1. Public health: Elucidation of the contextual factors impacting the health of rural communities by: reporting statistical updates on a range of chronic and infectious diseases that disproportionately affect rural populations both globally and in the U.S.; providing discourse on the importance of addressing critical social determinants (global and national) that impede optimal health outcomes among rural populations; and, acknowledging the compositional factors of individuals who reside in rural spaces. 2. Public policy: Application of specific policy models to garner both public and political will towards sustainable policy change to improve healthy living in rural spaces. 3. Rural planning: Identification of national and international planning models that can be used to design strategic plans targeted to improve quality of life, create sustainable development, and establish economic well-being and growth in rural communities. Rural Health Disparities: Public Health, Policy, and Planning Approaches will find an engaged audience among non-profit organizations, planners, public health practitioners, policy analysts, and public interest groups, as well as rural health advocates and students enrolled in planning, public policy, and/or public health courses.
The rural Midwest since World War II
A landscape transformed : ecosystems and natural resources in the Midwest / James A. Pritchard -- Ecology, economy, labor : the Midwestern farm landscape since 1945 / Kendra Smith-Howard -- Beyond the Rust Belt : the neglected history of the rural Midwest's industrialization after World War II / Wilson J. Warren -- Midwestern rural communities in the Post-WW II era to 2000 / Cornelia Butler Flora and Jan L. Flora -- Uneasy dependency : rural and farm policy and the Midwest since 1945 / J.L. Anderson -- Farmwomen in the Midwest since 1945 / Jenny Barker Devine -- Childhood in the rural Midwest since 1945 / Pamela Riney-Kehrberg -- "The whitest of occupations"? African-Americans in the rural Midwest, 1940-2010 / Debra A. Reid -- Hispanics in the Midwest since World War II / Jim Norris -- Internal alternate : the Midwestern Amish since 1945 / Steven D. Reschly -- Conclusion : the indistinct distinctiveness of rural Midwestern culture / David Danbom
Rural Social Work by
A thoughtful text integrating strengths, assets, and capacity-building themes with contemporary issues in rural social work practice Now in its second edition, Rural Social Work is a collection of contributed readings from social work scholars, students, and practitioners presenting a framework for resource building based on the strengths, assets, and capacities of people, a tool essential for working with rural communities. This guide considers methods for social workers to participate in the work of sustaining rural communities. Each chapter features a reading integrating the themes of capacity-building and rural social work; discussion questions that facilitate critical thinking around the chapter; and suggested activities and assignments. Rural Social Work, Second Edition explores: Important practice issues in rural communities, including the challenges of working with stigmatized populations such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people, the homeless, and people living with HIV/AIDS Practice models that hold special promise for rural social workers, including evidence-based practice and community partnership models Newer research tools such as asset mapping, social network analysis, concept mapping, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Exploring how social workers can integrate the tremendous resources that exist in rural communities into their practice, Rural Social Work, Second Edition provides a solid introduction to the complex, challenging, and rewarding work of building and sustaining rural communities.
Reshaping gender and class in rural spaces [electronic resource]
Feminisms and ruralities
Putting the community first: feminism and rural American women's activism in the twentieth century / Sara Egge and Jenny Barker Devine -- A rural woman's impact on Canadian feminist practice and theory / Susan Machum -- Feminism in rural Finland: a comparison of agendas of two women's organizations / Maarit Sireni -- Paradoxes of a women's organization in the forestry industry / Berit Brandth, Gro Follo, and Marit S. Haugen -- Gender mainstreaming or strategic essentialism?: how to achieve rural gender equality / Sally Shortall -- Feminist connections in and beyond the rural / Belinda Leach -- The feminist and the cowboy: reading "An unlikely love story" / Barbara Pini and Imelda Whelehan -- The development of feminist perspectives in rural gender studies / Jo Little -- Finding "room to maneuver": gender, agency, and the family farm / Anne Byrne, Nata Duvvury, Áine Macken-Walsh, and Tanya Watson -- The gendered ma(i)ze of globalization / Jennifer Rogers-Brown -- Reflections on a feminist care approach to rural fisheries / Nicole Gerarda Power -- Rural queer theory / Julie C. Keller -- Girls' studies in the rural / Kate Cairns -- Memory work and reflexive gendered bodies: examining rural landscapes in the making / Lia Bryant and Mona Livholts -- Conclusion / Barbara Pini, Jo Little, and Berit Brandth