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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
Effectiveness Of Community Health Workers (Chws) In Coordinating Diabetes Self Management Education (Dsme) For High-Need Appalachian Clients, Frances J. Feltner, Willie Bates
Effectiveness Of Community Health Workers (Chws) In Coordinating Diabetes Self Management Education (Dsme) For High-Need Appalachian Clients, Frances J. Feltner, Willie Bates
Center of Excellence in Rural Health Presentations
Objective
Examine effectiveness of CHWs in supporting a nurse-led DSME intervention among clients who are characterized by high rates of poverty and poor education.
Methods
Study Population/Research Design: New Kentucky Homeplace clients (3,217) ages 18-65+ from a 26-county study area who were processed prior to study starting date July 1, 2011. The 30.6% (983) of clients who had been told by a health professional they were diabetic, could speak English, and were willing to sign IRB consent were eligible to participate. Women who were diagnosed with diabetes during pregnancy were not eligible. Clients were able to enroll on a first-come …
Untangling Neoliberalism’S Gordian Knot: Cancer Prevention And Control Services For Rural Appalachian Populations, George F. Bills
Untangling Neoliberalism’S Gordian Knot: Cancer Prevention And Control Services For Rural Appalachian Populations, George F. Bills
Theses and Dissertations--Sociology
In eastern Kentucky, as in much of central Appalachia, current local storylines narrate the frictions and contradictions involved in the structural transition from a post-WWII Fordist industrial economy and a Keynesian welfare state to a Post-Fordist service economy and Neoliberal hollow state, starving for energy to sustain consumer indulgence (Jessop, 1993; Harvey, 2003; 2005). Neoliberalism is the ideological force redefining the “societal infrastructure of language” that legitimates this transition, in part by redefining the key terms of democracy and citizenship, as well as valorizing the market, the individual, and technocratic innovation (Chouliaraki & Fairclough, 1999; Harvey, 2005). This project develops …