An individual-based rurality measure and its health application: A case study of Latino immigrants in North Florida, USA
| Autor: | Brenda A. Wiens, Jeanne-Marie R. Stacciarini, Liang Mao, Rebekah Smith |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male Rural Population Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Health (social science) Geographic information system media_common.quotation_subject Health Behavior Immigration Emigrants and Immigrants Participatory action research Rural Health Article Individual based Rurality History and Philosophy of Science medicine Humans Social isolation Socioeconomics media_common business.industry Rural health Individual mobility Hispanic or Latino Middle Aged Geography Social Isolation Florida Female medicine.symptom business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Social Science & Medicine. 147:300-308 |
| ISSN: | 0277-9536 |
| Popis: | Rurality has been frequently noted by researchers as pathways to understand human health in rural and remote areas. Current measures of rurality are mostly oriented to places, not individuals, and have not accounted for individual mobility, thus inappropriate for studying health and well-being at an individual level. This research proposed a new concept of individual-based rurality by integrating personal activity spaces. A feasible method was developed to quantify individuals’ rural experience using household travel surveys and geographic information systems (GIS). For illustration, the proposed method was applied to understand the well-being and social isolation among rural Latino immigrants, who had participated in a community-based participatory research (CBPR) study in North Florida, USA. The resulting individuals’ rurality indices were paired with their scores of well-being and social isolation to identify potential associations. The correlation analysis showed that the proposed rurality can be related to the social isolation, mental and physical well-being of individuals in different gender groups, and hence could be a suitable tool to investigate rural health issues. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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