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1	Home Is Where Their Health Is: Rethinking Perspectives of Informal and Formal Care by Older Rural Appalachian Women Who Live Alone Hayes, Patricia A. 01 February 2006 (has links) The purposes of this qualitative descriptive study were to describe the perceptions of rural, older Appalachian women who live alone regarding systems of informal and formal care and to understand if traditional cultural norms influence attitudes and decisions to access these two systems. Older Appalachian women in this study defined themselves and their health in terms of their homes and as women who care for themselves informally and value independence and privacy. Five major themes emerged from the data for informal care, and three related to formal care or use of it. The findings support a reconceptualization of informal and formal care and point out reasons why these women chose to use or not use these two systems of care. Furthermore, they reveal how changes in the formal care system could support health promotion and prevention strategies grounded in everyday ways of maintaining health within the context of home. activities of daily living aged 80 and over Appalachian region attitude culture delivery of health care (methods) female humans interviews as topic rural population self care single person
2	Models for Local Implementation of Comprehensive Cancer Control: Meeting Local Cancer Control Needs Through Community Collaboration Behringer, Bruce, Lofton, Staci, Knight, Margaret L. 01 December 2010 (has links) The comprehensive cancer control approach is used by state, tribes, tribal organizations, territorial and Pacific Island Jurisdiction cancer coalitions to spur local implementation of cancer plans to reduce the burden of cancer in jurisdictions across the country. There is a rich diversity of models and approaches to the development of relationships and scope of planning for cancer control activities between coalitions and advocates in local communities. The national comprehensive cancer control philosophy provides an operational framework while support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention enables coalitions to act as catalysts to bring local partners together to combat cancer in communities. This manuscript describes multiple characteristics of cancer coalitions and how they are organized. Two models of how coalitions and local partners collaborate are described. A case study method was used to identify how five different state and tribal coalitions use the two models to organize their collaborations with local communities that result in local implementation of cancer plan priorities. Conclusions support the use of multiple organizing models to ensure involvement of diverse interests and sensitivity to local cancer issues that encourages implementation of cancer control activities. California case-control studies comprehensive health care (methods) cooperative behavior delivery of health care (methods) health plan implementation (methods) health services needs and demand humans models theoretical neoplasms (prevention & control therapy) pacific islands population groups residence characteristics Tennessee Washington Health Sciences

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Home Is Where Their Health Is: Rethinking Perspectives of Informal and Formal Care by Older Rural Appalachian Women Who Live Alone

Models for Local Implementation of Comprehensive Cancer Control: Meeting Local Cancer Control Needs Through Community Collaboration