Handbook of Rural Health

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Rural Health Policy

   • Keith J. Mueller

   Pages 1-23

3. Methodological Issues in Rural Health Research and Care

   • Sana Loue, Hal Morgenstern

   Pages 25-33

4. Public Health Issues

   • John B. Conway

   Pages 35-43

5. Equity in Rural Health and Health Care

   • Lu Ann Aday, Beth E. Quill, Cielito C. Reyes-Gibby

   Pages 45-72

6. Ethnic Issues

   • Roberta D. Baer, Janice Nichols

   Pages 73-102

7. The Health of Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers

   • Bruce W. Goldberg, Marie Napolitano

   Pages 103-117

8. American Indian and Alaska Native Health Services as a System of Rural Care

   • Everett R. Rhoades

   Pages 119-133

9. Rural Women’s Health

   • Patricia Winstead-Fry, Elizabeth Wheeler

   Pages 135-156

10. Pediatric and Adolescent Health

    • Neva Abbott, Karen Olness

    Pages 157-172

11. Infectious Diseases

    • Keith B. Armitage, Gary I. Sinclair

    Pages 173-187

12. Chronic Disease in Rural Health

    • Leslie K. Dennis, Stacie L. Pallotta

    Pages 189-207

13. Rural Occupational Health and Safety

    • Lorann Stallones

    Pages 209-215

14. Oral Health

    • Robert Isman

    Pages 217-239

15. Rural Mental Health Services

    • Bruce Lubotsky Levin, Ardis Hanson

    Pages 241-256

16. Substance Use

    • L. A. Rebhun, Helena Hansen

    Pages 257-276

17. No Safe Place to Hide

    • Susan Murty

    Pages 277-293

18. Theories, Models, and Methods of Health Promotion in Rural Settings

    • John P. Elder, Guadalupe X. Ayala, Marion F. Zabinski, Judith J. Prochaska, Christine A. Gehrman

    Pages 295-314

19. Health Education

    • Gail E. Souare

    Pages 315-335

20. Recruiting, Training, and Retaining Rural Health Professionals

    • James Robinson III, Jeffrey J. Guidry

    Pages 337-353

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.

• Public Health
• anthropology
• education
• epidemiology
• health
• health care
• health policy
• psychology
• public health issues
• social work

• Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

  Sana Loue

• University of Texas, Houston, Houston, USA

  Beth E. Quill

Policies and ethics