Title:
Rural and other medically underserved populations / editors, JoAnn S. Oliver, Sandra Millon Underwood.
Author:
Oliver, JoAnn S., editor.
Underwood, Sandra Millon, editor.
Publication Information:
Philadelphia : Elsevier, [2015]
©2015.
Call Number:
RA771.5 .R89 2015
Abstract:
"This issue highlights the work of an esteemed group of nurse clinicians, educators, and researchers whose clinical practices, research, and programs of scholarship are dedicated to improving the health condition of rural and underserved populations."-- Preface.
ISBN:
9780323395731
Series:
Nursing clinics of North America, volume 50, number 3
Nursing clinics of North America ; v. 50, no. 3.
Physical Description:
xviii pages, pages [449]-629 : illustrations (some color), graphs ; 24 cm
General Note:
"September 2015."
Contents:
Foreword: Social justice : a basis for health care delivery / Stephen D. Krau -- Preface: Rural and other medically underserved populations / JoAnn S. Oliver and Sandra Millon Underwood -- Diabetes and hearing loss among underserved populations / Donna Calvin and Sanreka R. Watley -- Cardiovascular health among an underserved population : clinical implications / Margaret T. Bowers -- Exploring health implications of disparities associated with food insecurity among low-income populations / Mary K. Canales, Nancy Coffey, and Emily Moore -- Assessing health issues in states with large minority populations / Michelle Long, Charles E. Menifield, and Audwin B. Fletcher -- Best practices for effective clinical partnerships with indigenous populations of North America (American Indian, Alaska Native, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) / Emily A. Haozous and Charles Neher -- Enhancing the collection, discussion and use of family health history by consumers, nurses and other health care providers : because family health matters / Sandra Millon Underwood and Sheryl Kelber -- Health information seeking among rural African Americans, Caucasians, and Hispanics : it is built, did they come? / Barbara D. Powe -- Impact of age and comorbidity on cervical and breast cancer literacy of African Americans, Latina, and Arab women / Costellia H. Talley and Karen Patricia Williams -- Interactive multimedia tailored to improve diabetes self-management / Felecia G. Wood, Elizabeth Alley, Spencer Baer, and Rebecca Johnson -- Smoking in rural and underserved pregnant women / Marilyn Cooper Handley and Daniel M. Avery, Jr. -- The presence of risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus in underserved preschool children / Michele Montgomery, Paige Johnson, and Patrick Ewell -- Using mobile technologies to access evidence-based resources : a rural health clinic experience / Heather D. Carter-Templeton and Lin Wu -- A clinical protocol for the assessment of obesity: addressing an epidemic / Candy S. Rinehart and JoAnn S. Oliver -- Rural health and the nonemergency use of emergency medical services / LaWanda W. Baskin, Janelle R. Baker, Teresa L. Bryan, Geraldine Q. Young, and Yolanda M. Powell-Young.
