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Rapid qualitative analysis approach to stakeholder and client interviews to inform mobile-based HIV testing in the U.S. Deep South

open access: yesArchives of Public Health, 2023
Background The severity of the HIV epidemic in the United States’ rural South highlights geographic, socioeconomic, and racial disparities that disproportionately affect poor Black Americans.
Madeline C. Pratt   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The epidemiology of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in rural East Africa: A population-based study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
BackgroundChronic kidney disease (CKD) may be common among individuals living in sub-Saharan Africa due to the confluence of CKD risk factors and genetic predisposition.MethodsWe ascertained the prevalence of CKD and its risk factors among a sample of 3 ...
Atukunda, Mucunguzi   +14 more
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The ecology of race and punishment across cities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In an era of mass incarceration in the United States, neighborhood context plays a significant role in demographic patterns of imprisonment. This paper examines the preprison neighborhood environment of racial and ethnic groups within the Massachusetts ...
Simes, Jessica T.
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Quilombolas et évangéliques : une incompatibilité identitaire ? Réflexions à partir d’une étude de cas en Amazonie brésilienne

open access: yesJournal de la Société des Américanistes, 2002
« Quilombolas » and Evangelicans: incompatible identities? Reflexions on a case study in the Brazilian Amazon. Since 1988, many rural people base their legal demands over the land they occupy by claiming the status of communities reminiscent of quilombos.
Véronique Boyer
doaj   +1 more source

Using an Ecojustice Perspective to Inform Science Teacher Recruitment and Retention in the Rural Black Belt Region of Georgia

open access: yesThe Rural Educator, 2018
This article highlights the significance of using ecojustice theory in scholarly discussions regarding issues of science teaching and learning in rural communities of the Southeastern United States.
Georgia Hodges, Deborah J. Tippins
doaj   +1 more source

"The sweat that marks the land": Work, Quilombola Rights and Territory in the Island of Marajó - Pará [PDF]

open access: yesAmbiente & Sociedade, 2015
The Quilombola communities are fighting hard for the right to their traditional territories. A struggle which started before the legal instruments that influence the debates about the rights of rural black communities in Brazil were established in 1988 ...
Luis Fernando Cardoso e Cardoso
doaj   +3 more sources

Implementation costs of a community health worker delivered weight loss intervention in black churches serving underserved communities

open access: yesPreventive Medicine Reports, 2020
Black adults bear a disproportionate burden of the obesity epidemic but are underrepresented in weight loss research and lose less weight than their white counterparts in weight loss interventions. Comprehensive behavioral weight loss interventions cause
Karen H. Kim Yeary   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Self-Reported Medication Use Across Racial and Rural or Urban Subgroups of People Who Are Pregnant in the United States: Decentralized App-Based Cohort Study

open access: yesJMIR Formative Research, 2023
BackgroundMaternal health outcomes have been underresearched due to people who are pregnant being underrepresented or excluded from studies based on their status as a vulnerable study population.
Toluwalase Ajayi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

As lutas pela terra, trabalho e cultura no Quilombo do Mutuca – Mato Grosso, Brasil

open access: yesCiudades, 2021
This article discusses the rural habitat of the Black Rural Community of Quilombo Mutuca, located in the south of the state Mato Grosso - Brazil. Specific policies and programs for quilombola communities recognized their rights for land tenure, ways of ...
Elizabeth Othon de Souza   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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