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Disabled Women’S Attendance At Community Women’S Groups In Rural Nepal, J. Morrison, T. Colbourn, B. Budhathoki, A. Sen, D. Adhikari, J. Bamjan, S. Pathak, A. Basnet, J. F. Trani, A. Costello, D. Manandhar, N. Groce
Disabled Women’S Attendance At Community Women’S Groups In Rural Nepal, J. Morrison, T. Colbourn, B. Budhathoki, A. Sen, D. Adhikari, J. Bamjan, S. Pathak, A. Basnet, J. F. Trani, A. Costello, D. Manandhar, N. Groce
Brown School Faculty Publications
There is strong evidence that participatory approaches to health and participatory women’s groups hold great potential to improve the health of women and children in resource poor settings. It is important to consider if interventions are reaching the most marginalized, and therefore we examined disabled women’s participation in women’s groups and other community groups in rural Nepal. People with disabilities constitute 15% of the world’s population and face high levels of poverty, stigma, social marginalization and unequal access to health resources, and therefore their access to women’s groups is particularly important. We used a mixed methods approach to describe attendance …
A Community-Driven Intervention For Prostate Cancer Screening In African Americans, Kushal Patel, Flora Ukoli, Jianguo Liu, Derrick Beech, Katina Beard, Byron Brown, Maureen Sanderson, Donna Kenerson, Leslie Cooper, Marie Canto, Bill Blot, Margaret Hargreaves
A Community-Driven Intervention For Prostate Cancer Screening In African Americans, Kushal Patel, Flora Ukoli, Jianguo Liu, Derrick Beech, Katina Beard, Byron Brown, Maureen Sanderson, Donna Kenerson, Leslie Cooper, Marie Canto, Bill Blot, Margaret Hargreaves
Public Health, Health Administration, and Health Sciences Faculty Research
The purpose of the study was to assess the impact of an educational intervention on prostate cancer screening behavior and knowledge. Participants were 104 African American men, 45 years and older, who had not been screened for prostate cancer with a prostate-specific antigen and/or digital rectal exam within the past year. All participants received an intervention delivered by trained lay community educators using a prostate cancer educational brochure developed in collaboration with the community, with structured interviews preintervention and 3 months postintervention. The main study outcomes included prostate-specific antigen screening rates during the 3-month interval and knowledge, barriers to screenings, …
Photonovels: Tools For Community Learning, The Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health And Safety
Photonovels: Tools For Community Learning, The Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health And Safety
Nursing Faculty Publications
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