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The Murray Ledger And Times, September 15, 2016, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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The Murray Ledger And Times, September 14, 2016, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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The Murray Ledger And Times, September 13, 2016, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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The Murray Ledger And Times, September 12, 2016, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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The Murray Ledger And Times, September 10-11, 2016, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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2016-09-09, Board Of Regents, Murray State University

Board of Regents Meeting Minutes

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The Murray Ledger And Times, September 9, 2016, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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The Murray Ledger And Times, September 8, 2016, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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2016-09-08, Board Of Regents, Murray State University

Board of Regents Meeting Minutes

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The Murray Ledger And Times, September 7, 2016, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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The Murray Ledger And Times, September 6, 2016, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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The Murray Ledger And Times, September 3-5, 2016, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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The Murray Ledger And Times, September 2, 2016, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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From The Editor, Peggy Pittman-Munke Ph.D.

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Journal of Contemporary Rural Social Work

Special Issue, Volume 8, Number 1

2016

From the Editor: Peggy Pittman-Munke, Murray State University

Building The Health Capability Set In A Purépecha Community To Assess Health Interventions, Marco Ricardo Téllez Cabrera

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Health capabilities can be viewed as the ability and opportunity to achieve health states according to the different styles of life valued by people. This paper contrasts and explores the dimensions that could be included in the health capability set to assess health interventions in Cuanajo, Mexico, expanding upon a previous work and using in-depth semi-structured interviews. Cuanajo is a semirural indigenous Purépecha community located in western Mexico. While the final objective is to generate measures of outcomes in economic evaluations of health interventions to be carried out in this community, this study reinforces the dimensions that could be employed …

Impact Of Education On Poverty Reduction In Costa Rica: A Regional And Urban-Rural Analysis, Rafael Arias, Gregorio Giménez, Leonardo Sánchez

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

In this article, we analyze the relationship between levels of education and poverty for the different planning regions and also according to urban and rural areas. For the purposes of the study, we use the methodology of Unsatisfied Basic Needs (UBN) to measure poverty in a multidimensional way: access to decent shelter, access to health, access to knowledge, and access to other goods and services (consumption capacity). Based on empirical evidence that uses data from the Population Census of 2011, we conclude that achieving greater levels of education helps people from rural and urban areas and people living in the …

Colonial Subjugation And Human Rights Abuses: Twenty-First Century Violations Against Brazil’S Rural Indigenous Xukuru Nation, Marcia Mikulak

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

This article addresses the struggle of the Xukuru do Ororubá indigenous people in rural Pernambuco, Brazil as they organize to stop historical violence against them and work to regain their constitutional right to their ancestral lands. Since Portuguese colonization and throughout Brazil’s nation-building, the Xukuru have been particularly at-risk for human rights abuses. With the creation of the United Nations in 1945 and the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR) in 1948, member states have often provided rhetorical validity to human rights documents and conventions – rhetoric that is often ignored upon return to their sovereign territories. …

Ideas For Capacity Building And Educational Empowerment Of Female Children In Rural Butaleja, Uganda: Applying The Central Human Capability Approach, Renuka Mahari De Silva

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Building upon the concepts of Capability Approach, this paper discusses how these ideas can be effectively utilized within the setting of a small rural village in Uganda, Africa to empower female children to create a valuable life that affects positive social change. Colonization left a devastating blow to the socioeconomic conditions among many ethnic communities in Uganda. However, Uganda’s political outlays and social constructs further deepened the inequity gap between female and male children. This paper explores ways in which female children may be given the capacity to create agency for themselves as a stepping stone towards building a life …

Book Review: Latino Heartland, Annah K. Bender Postdoctoral Fellow

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Book Review: Latino Heartland Sujey Vega 2015 New York, NY: New York University Press 263 pages Softcover: $29.49 US ISBN-13: 978-4798-9604-2

Book Review: Rural Social Work: An International Perspective, Peter A. Kindle Ph.D.

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Book Review: Rural Social Work: An International Perspective Richard Pugh & Brian Cheers 2010 Bristol, UK: The Policy Press 254 pages Softcover: $34.95 US ISBN-10: 1861347200 ISBN-13: 978-1861347206

Contemporary Rural Social Work - 2016 (Volume 8, Number 1)

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Contemporary Rural Social Work - 2016 (Special Issue, Volume 8, Number 1)

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Visible And Invisible Battles On The Boarder, Danielle Beazer Dubrasky

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

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Professional Detachment, Curtis L. Todd

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

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How To Make A Ghost Town, Ross Howerton

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

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Family In Arms, Treri Lynn Cummings

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

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From The Guest Editors, Dheeshana S. Jayasundara, Randall Nedegaard

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Journal of Contemporary Rural Social Work

Special Issue, Volume 8, Number 1

2016

From the Guest Editors: Dheeshana Jayasundara and Randall C. Nedegaard, University of North Dakota

Impact Of Flood On Rural Population And Strategies For Mitigation: A Case Study Of Darbhanga District, Bihar State, India, Vikash Kumar, Suk Yin Caroline Cheng, Ajit Kumar Singh

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Floods are one of the most disastrous acts of nature and impact human life in multiple ways. Damages by floods in rural areas are more severe compared to urban counterparts due to poverty, limited infrastructures and access to resources and health care services. The Province of Bihar in India, with a population of 104.1 million, has 76 per cent of the population living under recurring threat of floods. In 2008, Bihar experienced severe floods in the northern region that affected more than 2.3 million people; and in 2013, they affected more than 5.9 million in 3768 villages across 20 rural …

Book Review: Planning For Rural Resilience: Coping With Climate Change And Energy Futures, Kala Chakradhar

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Book Review: Planning for rural resilience: Coping with climate change and energy futures Wayne. J. Caldwell (Ed.) 2015 Winnipeg, Canada: University of Manitoba Press 165 pages Softcover: $31.95 US ISBN-13: 978-0-88755-780-4

From The Editor, Peggy Pittman-Munke Ph.D.

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Journal of Contemporary Rural Social Work

Volume 8, Number 2

2016

From the Editor: Peggy Pittman-Munke, Murray State University

Over The Hill To The Poor Farm: Rural History Almost Forgotten, Michael R. Daley Ph.D., Peggy Pittman-Munke Ph.D.

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Poor farms were important rural institutions that cared for a wide range of poor and dependent people in the 19th and 20th centuries. Yet today they are little remembered. This manuscript discusses these poor farms, their function, operation, who they served, and how they relate to modern day social welfare.