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Rural Health and Aging Research: Theory, Methods and Practical Applications
Edited by Wilbert M. Gesler, Donna J. Rabiner, Gordon H. DeFriese & The North Carolina Rural Aging Program
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Society and Aging Series, Jon Hendricks, Editor
ABOUT THE BOOK
This book describes a wide-ranging set of research
approaches which have been used to study the health care problems of adults
living in rural areas. It shows how these approaches can be used to define
health care problems, measure levels of illness and health, and evaluate
health care practices. For each approach, contributors provide a theoretical
background from the health care delivery literature, details of how it
can be carried out in the field, its strengths and weaknesses, and illustrative
examples from both the literature and their own work.
Contributors are members of an interdisciplinary
group of academics and health care practitioners, working together under
the umbrella of a grant from the National Institute on Aging to the Cecil
G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, who had actually used the approaches described in their
research.
Novel aspects of the book include descriptions of
a wide variety of methods, including both quantitative and qualitative
approaches, different scales of analysis, and the use of both primary and
secondary data; the integration of theory and practice; examples of studies
using community-academic collaborations; interdisciplinary cooperation
in research; and the generalizability of the approaches beyond the situations
described.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Wilbert M. Gesler, Ph.D.
Dr. Gesler is a full professor in the Department of Geography, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published a book titled The Cultural
Geography of Health Care and is currently working on a book titled Healing
Places. He is first editor of a book titled Health in Rural North America:
The Geography of Health Care Services and Delivery and an editor of
a book titled Geographic Methods for Health Services Research: A Focus
on the Rural-Urban Continuum.
Donna J. Rabiner, Ph.D.
Dr. Rabiner is a Research Health Scientist at the National Center for
Health Promotion, Veterans Administration Medical Center; Assistant Research
Professor, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University
Medical Center; and North Carolina Rural Aging Program Coordinator, Cecil
G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
Gordon H. DeFriese, Ph.D.
Dr. DeFriese is a professor of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health
Policy and Administration, and Director, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health
Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His scholarly
work has featured extensive research on the special health problems of
rural communities and the behaviors of older adults that help to assure
their functional independence.
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