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

, 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, Balzer, Laura B, Black, Doug, Charlebois, Edwin D, Elly, Assurah, Estrella, Michelle M, Havlir, Diane, Hsu, Chi-Yuan, Kabami, Jane, Kamya, Moses, Kwarisiima, Dalsone, Muiru, Anthony N, Okiror, Samuel, Petersen, Maya, Snyman, Katherine   +14 more
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Agricultural cooperation in the Northern Non-Black-Earth Region: formal and informal practices

RUDN journal of Sociology, 2020
Based on the review of the research on the relationship between cooperation and self-organization in the rural development of Russia and other countries, and also taking into account the recent trends in the international cooperative movement, the ...
O. B. Bozhkov, A. M. Nikulin, I. K. Poleshchuk   +2 more
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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

Archives 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, Oluwaseyi O. Isehunwa, Ingrid V. Bassett, Mirjam-Colette Kempf, Bretia Gordon, Lynn T. Matthews   +5 more
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Quilombolas et évangéliques : une incompatibilité identitaire ? Réflexions à partir d’une étude de cas en Amazonie brésilienne

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

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

Ambiente & 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
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The ecology of race and punishment across cities [PDF]

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

Preventive 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, Cameron M. Kaplan, Ellen Hutchins   +2 more
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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

JMIR 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, Jeff Pawelek, Hansa Bhargava, Arij Faksh, Jennifer Radin   +4 more
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Looking Back and Pressing Forward: Lessons for Today Found in the Story of Barbara Smith Conrad [PDF]

, 2018
Educatio
Stone, Ashley N.
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