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Meanings and Strategies for Good Health: The Perspectives of Latina Immigrant Mothers in Rural Iowa
(Cambio Center, 2014)
Limited research has examined the variety of strategies Latino immigrants, especially those living in rural communities, use to maintain or improve their health. This study identified Latina immigrant mothers? conceptualizations of good health...
A history of rural sociology
(University of Missouri-Columbia, College of Agriculture, 1988)
Experiences influencing physician rural practice and retention : a phenomenological study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
A physician maldistribution exists when comparing rural with urban areas. It is necessary to ensure rural citizens have available, accessible, and acceptable quality medical care to remedy health disparities resulting from the lack of physicians...
Developing Social Capitals Latino Immigrants in Three Rural Missouri Communities
(Cambio Center, 2010)
The current study employs the sustainable livelihoods strategies model to examine the integration process in three rural communities in Missouri. Community development specialists and rural economists have widely used SLSM, which has evolved since...
Rural and urban breast cancer patients: differential relationships between coping responses and psychological adjustment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
and survivors. Some of the findings derived from the studies of urban women may generalize to their rural counterparts; yet rural breast cancer patients are likely to have distinct experiences that influence their physical and psychological well...
Insights for rural health care provider retention : a quantitative survey analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Due to rural health disparities and an uneven distribution of health providers across the rural urban continuum, retaining the existing rural health care provider workforce may be an important strategy to maintain existing rural health care...
Charges for health services among open-country people in a south Missouri county
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1958)
Rural agglomeration : how does the distribution of people across rural America affect entrepreneurship?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
from low transportation costs, access to large labor and consumer markets, and knowledge spillovers. In this context, rural areas are largely considered to be the sparsely populated 'other' however, our experiences suggest that population distribution...
Illness in the farm population of two homogeneous areas of Missouri : its relation to social and economic factors and its susceptibility to small-sample study
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1952)
Perceptions of Community Climate Among Latino Immigrants in Three Rural Communities in the Midwest
(Cambio Center, 2010)
on the context of reception experienced by these newcomers in the communities where they settled. Participants were Latino adults (n = 50; 24 men, 26 women) who resided in one of three rural communities in different areas of the state. Focus groups interviews...
The rural population resources of Missouri
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1948)
The impact of Wal-Mart on the rural retail wage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This study uses panel data to test the impact of Wal-Mart on the rural retail wage. There are observations from 2,986 counties in the contiguous United States from 1990-2005. Previous studies have reported mixed findings of the impact of Wal...
An investigation of Jim Collins's Good to Great and applications for rural school districts and their leaders
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The difference between Level 5 Leaders (Collins, 2001) of rural school districts and other effective/competent leaders of rural school districts were examined in this study. The case study compared Level 5 Superintendents and other effective...
Broadening Mothers Knowledge, Skills and Social Networks to Improve Latino Family Health
(Cambio Center, 2015)
individual interviews and a focus group interview with Latina immigrant mothers in rural Iowa, Iowa State University Extension is piloting a series of health focused workshops for Latina immigrant mothers. The workshops are designed to offer mothers a space...
The health of low-income farm families in Southeast Missouri
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1947)
Assessing variance in inpatient hospitalization rates for three major chronic conditions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
in Missouri was assigned a residential status value of metropolitan (1), micropolitan (2), and rural (3); this file was uploaded to the MUHC SQL Shared Analytics Server. A query was designed to pull individual-level IP hospitalization data for 17 variables...
Rural community trends : second report
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1933)
Use of medical services in rural Missouri
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1946)
Understanding how violence impacts rural mexico: a cross sectional analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Violence has negative impacts on the wellbeing of civilians, but it specifically has a stronger impact on the rural poor. In Mexico, the rural poor are often ignored in academic research and in policies that address violence, even though they have...
The state of rural Missouri
(Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station, 1995)