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Rurality or distance to care and the risk of homelessness among Afghanistan and Iraq veterans [PDF]

, 2017
INTRODUCTION: To date, no studies have examined the relationship of rurality and distance to nearest VA facility to risk of homelessness. METHODS: We examined differences in the rate of homelessness within a year of a Veteran's first encounter with
Brignone, Emily, Byrne, Thomas H., Carter, Marjorie, Fargo, Jamison, Gundlapalli, Adi, Montgomery, Ann Elizabeth, Nelson, Richard E., Pettey, Warren, Rupper, Randall   +8 more
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Multilevel modeling of county-level excessive alcohol use, rurality, and COVID-19 case fatality rates in the US.

PLoS ONE, 2021
ObjectiveReports of disparities in COVID-19 mortality rates are emerging in the public health literature as the pandemic continues to unfold. Alcohol misuse varies across the US and is related to poorer health and comorbidities that likely affect the ...
George Pro, Paul A Gilbert, Julie A Baldwin, Clare C Brown, Sean Young, Nickolas Zaller   +5 more
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Narrowed Gaps and Persistent Challenges: Examining Rural-Nonrural Disparities in Postsecondary Outcomes over Time [PDF]

, 2019
Empirical studies have concluded that rural students experience lower rates of college enrollment and degree completion compared to their nonrural peers, but this literature needs to be expanded and updated for a continually changing context.
Kimball, Ezekiel, Kommers, Suzan, Manly, Catherine A., Wells, Ryan   +3 more
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Everyday mobility and infrastructure in the configuration of non peri-urban rural space

Región y Sociedad, 2018
The purpose of this article is to determine how the non peri-urban rural space in the Mexico’s central region, which is a highly urbanized context, is organized.
Eduardo Cerón Aparicio
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On making disability in rural places more visible: challenges and opportunities [Introduction to a special issue] [PDF]

, 2017
This essay prefaces a special issue of the Journal of Rural Studies (JRS) concerned with a sub-field of inquiry that might be termed the rural geography of disability, addressing multiple dimensions of disability, physical and mental, associated with ...
Chouinard, Vera, Philo, Chris, Pini, Barbara   +2 more
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Local resources, foreign influences, value creation, tradition and modernity. The case of a Local Agro-food System in Jämtland, Sweden

Culture & History Digital Journal, 2016
During the 1980’s collective action was initiated with the purpose of saving the remnants of traditional livestock farming in Jämtland. This led to the articulation of a local agro-food system (LAFS) that managed to commercialize important elements of ...
Paulina Rytkönen
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US trends in mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic depend on rurality

Rural and Remote Health, 2021
Introduction: Face masks are widely recommended as a COVID-19 prevention strategy. State mask mandates have generally reduced the spread of the disease, but decisions to wear a mask depend on many factors.
George Pro, Krista Schumacher, Randolph Hubach, Nickolas Zaller, Zachary Giano, Ricky Camplain, Carolyn Camplain, Shane Haberstroh, Julie Baldwin, Denna Wheeler   +9 more
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The migration of foreign women to rural Catalonia (Spain) in the context of economic and social transformation in local communities

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Geographica, 2014
This article analyzes the impact of the arrival of immigrants to Catalan rural areas from a gender perspective. We specifically observed the female migration routes to municipalities experiencing problems in ensuring the reproduction of their communities
Montserrat Soronellas-Masdeu, Yolanda Bodoque-Puerta, Ramona Torrens-Bonet   +2 more
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Le front pionnier agro-désertique égyptien, par-delà rural et ruralité ?

EchoGéo, 2020
Since the middle of the 20th century, desert margins have become the place where the future of the Egyptian agriculture is projected, both by the state and by international institutions.
Delphine Acloque
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Igualdad o vacío: Mujeres, Cultura y nueva ruralidad en España hoy

Periférica, 2023
Es en la realidad rural de nuestro país en la que las políticas culturales están mostrando con mayor claridad el nacimiento de un nuevo paradigma cultural en el que la interrelación entre cultura, igualdad y desarrollo sostenible se hace patente cada ...
Estefanía Rodero Sanz
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