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Understanding Mesosystemic Influences On Reported Health Among Rural Low-Income Women: A Structural Equation Analysis, Tiffany Wigington
Understanding Mesosystemic Influences On Reported Health Among Rural Low-Income Women: A Structural Equation Analysis, Tiffany Wigington
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
While ensuring access to health insurance and health care services is important, emerging research indicates that individual health and well-being result from a complex array of environmental, social, and psychological factors. The delineation of how factors of health and well-being unfold and impact rural low-income women is particularly salient for social workers who provide services to rural residents and who work within a rural context. Utilizing components from the ecological systems perspective, this study explored how the factors associated with health risk influenced reported health and mesosystemic processes among rural low-income women. This sample (n=304) for this study was drawn …
Why Do Social Service Supervisors Have So Much Trouble Hiring Social Workers Across Rural Minnesota?, Paul Force-Emery Mackie
Why Do Social Service Supervisors Have So Much Trouble Hiring Social Workers Across Rural Minnesota?, Paul Force-Emery Mackie
Social Work Department Publications
This session focuses on current knowledge pertaining to difficulties in hiring and retaining social service providers across rural areas - with special attention to rural Minnesota.