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Risk and Resilience Among Families in Urban AI/AN Communities: the Role of Young Adults
Urban American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) young adults and their families are often geographically or socially distant from tribal networks and...
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Long-term measurement study of urban environmental low frequency noise
BackgroundEnvironmental low frequency noise (LFN < 125 Hz), ubiquitous in urban areas, is an understudied area of exposure science and an overlooked...
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Aging in Rural Communities
Purpose of ReviewPopulation aging is occurring worldwide, particularly in developed countries such as the United States (US). However, in the US, the...
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Racial Arrest Disparities in the USA by Rural-Urban Location and Region
BackgroundUrban racial arrest disparities are well known. Emerging evidence suggests that rural policing shares similar patterns as urban policing in...
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Food insecurity in urban American Indian and Alaska Native populations during the COVID-19 pandemic
BackgroundFood insecurity is an important social determinant of health that was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Both food insecurity and...
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Matching Mobile Crisis Models to Communities: An Example from Northwestern Ontario
Police are often the first to encounter individuals when they are experiencing a mental health crisis. Other professionals with different skill sets,...
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Vaccine Equity: Lessons Learned Exploring Facilitators and Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccination in Urban Black Communities
COVID-19 vaccines were developed at unparalleled speed, but racial disparities persist in vaccine uptake. This is a cross-sectional survey that was...
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Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Low-Income, Latinx Children in Immigrant Families: Comparison of Children in Rural Farmworker and Urban Non-Farmworker Communities
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are stressors that can have lifelong detrimental health effects. ACEs are a concern for children of immigrant...
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Cardiovascular health and proximity to urban oil drilling in Los Angeles, California
BackgroundAlthough ~18 million people live within a mile from active oil and gas development (OGD) sites in the United States, epidemiological...
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Correlates of mental disorder and harmful substance use in an indigenous Australian urban sample: an analysis of data from the Queensland Urban Indigenous Mental Health Survey
PurposeLimited data exists on the relationship between sociodemographic and cultural variables and the prevalence of specific mental and substance...
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Obesity Management Solutions in Rural Communities
Purpose of ReviewObesity is more common in rural than in urban areas. The disparities in body mass index (BMI) may be due to growing socioeconomic...
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Assessment of non-communicable disease risk factors, functional performance, and health-related quality of life in adults: a comparative analysis in low-resourced urban and rural areas of South Africa
BackgroundGlobally, disparities between non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors, functional performance, and health-related quality of life...
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Effect of a community based social marketing strategy on the uptake of clean delivery kits in peri-urban communities of Karachi, Pakistan
BackgroundPakistan has one of the highest neonatal and maternal mortality rates in the world. Use of clean delivery kits (CDK) at time of delivery...
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Creation and Validation of a New Socio-built Environment Index Measure of Opioid Overdose Risk for Use in Both Non-urban and Urban Settings
A great deal of literature has examined features of the physical built environment as predictors of opioid overdose and other substance use-related...
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Analyzing gender differentials in dietary diversity across urban and peri-urban areas of Hyderabad, India
BackgroundIndia’s recent increase in urbanization alongside with feminization of rural agriculture could increase the existing gender disparities in...
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Association of maternal nutritional status and small for gestational age neonates in peri-urban communities of Karachi, Pakistan: findings from the PRISMA study
BackgroundEarly pregnancy nutritional status can be associated with adverse birth outcomes such as small-for-gestational age (SGA) and low birth...
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Food insecurity and associated factors among households with under-5 children in slum communities in Ibadan, Nigeria
IntroductionFood insecurity is a leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. This study assessed the prevalence of household food insecurity...
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Potato Ethics: What Rural Communities Can Teach Us about Healthcare
In this paper I offer the term “potato ethics” to describe a particular professional rural health sensibility. I contrast this attitude with the...
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Research Translation to Promote Urban Health in Latin America: The SALURBAL Experience
In highly urbanized and unequal Latin America, urban health and health equity research are essential to effective policymaking. To ensure the...
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Black Canadians’ Exposure to Everyday Racism: Implications for Health System Access and Health Promotion among Urban Black Communities
This study explores the social determinants of Black Canadians’ exposure to everyday racism, its relationship to health system access, and...