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Ua61/6 Newsletter, Issue 2, Wku Institute For Rural Health Development & Research Oct 2003

Ua61/6 Newsletter, Issue 2, Wku Institute For Rural Health Development & Research

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created by and about the Institute for Rural Health Development & Research. This issue contains:

  • College of Health & Human Services Has New Dean – John Bonaguro
  • Simpson, Staci. Institute Aims to Improve Oral Health of Children
  • Whitfield, Beth. WKU Mobile Unit KICS Off Dental Event with Webster County – Kentucky Interdisciplinary Community Screening
  • Stone, Glynda. TEACH KY: Teachers Exploring & Advocating Careers in Health in Kentucky
  • Institute Sponsors Hispanic Health Fair
  • HIV Prevention Counseling & Testing Training Program Initiated at WKU
  • New Web-based Course Offered Through Communications Disorders Department at WKU
  • Lashley, Donita. Child Passenger Safety Training
  • Handy, …


Compromised Constitutions: The Iranian Experience With The 1918 Influenza Pandemic., Amir Afkhami Jul 2003

Compromised Constitutions: The Iranian Experience With The 1918 Influenza Pandemic., Amir Afkhami

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Faculty Publications

The global demographic impact of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic continues to fascinate researchers and scholars. This paper examines the social and demographic effects of this outbreak on Iranian society, through a comprehensive investigation of the modes of transmission and propagation, mortality rates, and other distinctive features of the region, and reveals the importance of taking a country's unique sociopolitical settings into account. Iran was one of the regions hit hardest by the pandemic, with mortality rates significantly higher than in most regions of the world. Though globally the victims of influenza lived primarily in urban areas, it was Iran's rural …


Ua61/6 Newsletter, Issue 1, Wku Institute For Rural Development Apr 2003

Ua61/6 Newsletter, Issue 1, Wku Institute For Rural Development

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created by and about the Institute for Rural Development. This issue contents:

  • Mobile Health & Wellness Unit
  • The New Hazard & Emergency Awareness Training (HEAT) Mobile Unit Arrives at WKU
  • Gardner, Marilyn. Emergency Medical Services Monograph Coming
  • A Nursing Student’s Perspective
  • Enhancing Rural Student Postsecondary Decisions
  • Lu, Ning & Richard Wilson. Kentuckian Socioecomic Status, Health Behavior, Access to Medical Care, & Health Status
  • Austin, Lynn. School-based Dental Sealant Program
  • The Institute for Rural Health Development & Research