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61. Rural Development: Actions Needed to Improve Assistance to Southwest Border Communities Known as Colonias - Resources
Date: Sep 2024

Provides an overview of colonias, predominately rural, Hispanic communities near the U.S.-Mexico border. Examines conditions in colonias and the challenges they face in obtaining and using federal assistance. Presents results of an analysis of American Community Survey data, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program documentation and funding data for fiscal years 2020–2023, and interviews with stakeholders. Offers recommendations for Congress and the USDA to preserve eligibility to funding set aside for colonias and identify applications for Single Family Housing assistance for projects in colonias.

...Hispanic communities near the U.S.-Mexico border. Examines conditions in colonias and the challenges they...

62. Sociocultural Construction of Food Ways in Low-Income Mexican-American Women with Diabetes: A Qualitative Study - Resources
Date: Aug 2016

Explores successful type 2 diabetes management practices of low-income Hispanic women residing in a rural community on the Texas-Mexico border in a sociocultural context, specifically looking at foodways. Foodways are the cultural, social, and economic practices relating to the production and consumption of food.

...Hispanic women residing in a rural community on the Texas-Mexico border in a sociocultural...

63. Mapping the Health Information Landscape in a Rural, Culturally Diverse Region: Implications for Interventions to Reduce Information Inequality - Resources
Date: Aug 2017

Examines disparities in health information access using news sources in a rural area of California with a large Hispanic population. Compares differences between news topics covered and regional health issues. Offers recommendations for public health officials and others.

...Hispanic population. Compares differences between news topics covered and regional health issues. Offers recommendations for public...

64. Racial, Ethnic, and Rural Disparities in Distance to Physicians among Decedents with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias in Washington State - Resources
Date: Mar 2024

Evaluates travel distance to the nearest neurologist and primary care physician among people whose cause of death was related to Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) in the state of Washington. Utilizes 2011-2021 mortality data. Includes breakdowns of distance to care by race, ethnicity, and level of rurality. Highlights geographic access disparities experienced by American Indian, Alaska Native, and Hispanic people.

...Hispanic people. --- Racial, Ethnic, and Rural Disparities in Distance to Physicians among Decedents with Alzheimer...

65. Feeding MI Families: Michigan Families' Lived Experience of Food Access and Food Assistance - Resources
Date: May 2024

Reports on food insecurity for Michigan families including federal assistance programs, COVID related impacts, charitable and social programs, and the experiences of Hispanic, Upper Peninsula, and disabled residents. Includes recommendations for assistance programs. Discusses rural throughout, including rural and urban comparisons.

...Hispanic, Upper Peninsula, and disabled residents. Includes recommendations for assistance programs. Discusses rural throughout, including...

66. Increasing Cervical Cancer Screening in the United States - Mexico Border Region - Resources
Date: 2014

Discusses the effects of an intervention delivered by community health workers (CHWs), or Promotores de Salud, on cervical cancer screening rates for Hispanic women in the rural border area of New Mexico who were out of compliance with the recommended screening guidelines.

...Hispanic women in the rural border area of New Mexico who were out of compliance...

67. Healthy Vinton: A Health Impact Assessment Focused on Water and Sanitation in a Small Rural Town on the U.S.-Mexico Border - Resources
Date: Apr 2015

Reports on the findings of a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) regarding water quality, sanitation infrastructure, and the health of residents in a predominantly Hispanic rural community along the U.S.-Mexico border.

...Hispanic rural community along the U.S.-Mexico border. --- Healthy Vinton: A Health Impact Assessment Focused...

68. The U.S. Rural Mortality Penalty is Wide and Growing - Resources
Date: Oct 2020

Policy brief examining rural-urban differences in mortality rates among non-Hispanic White people from 1990-2018. Features statistics with breakdowns by age group, sex, metropolitan and nonmetropolitan location, cause of death, and mortality rate per 100,000 people.

...Hispanic White people from 1990-2018. Features statistics with breakdowns by age group, sex, metropolitan...

69. Person and Place: The Compounding Effects of Race/Ethnicity and Rurality on Health - Resources
Date: Oct 2004

Discusses how the research addressing rural Black, Hispanic, and American Indian/Alaska Native populations suggests that disparities in health and in healthcare access found among rural racial/ethnic minority populations are generally more severe than those among urban racial/ethnic minorities.

...Hispanic, and American Indian/Alaska Native populations suggests that disparities in health and in healthcare access...

70. Racial and Ethnic Minorities Made Up 22 Percent of the Rural Population in 2017 Compared to 42 Percent in Urban Areas - Resources
Date: May 2019

Two side-by-side pie charts showing the racial/ethnic composition of the rural population compared to the urban population in 2017. Categories listed are American Indian, Black, Hispanic, White, and other.

...Hispanic, White, and other. --- Racial and Ethnic Minorities Made Up 22 Percent of the Rural...