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Shifting Rural Quantification Towards Study of Health Disparities: Applications in Statistical and Spatial Analysis of Rural Colorectal Cancer

Creator:

Buchalter, Robert Blake

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Quantitative measurement of the urban-rural continuum for examination of U.S. rural health disparities is a relatively new research area, where only a handful of studies have investigated health disparities using quantitative rural measures and even fewer have attempted to integrate health variables within said measures. Most U.S. rural health disparity...

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Dissertation
Non-instrumented Measurement of Muscle Power is Associated with Health Outcomes in Older Adults: Cross-sectional and Prospective Analyses of Falls, Frailty, and Functional Limitation in the National Health and Aging Trends Study

Creator:

Burbank, Caitlin M.

Abstract:

As life expectancy continues to rise, adults over 65 are one of the fastest-growing age groups in the United States. As we have made significant strides in mitigating disease, we now have to consider health states that lead to disablement and the inability to age-in-place, including falls, frailty, functional mobility,...

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Dissertation

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, frail) and report different population prevalences for frailty categories.43 Thus, the methods have