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Culture
100
Another name for rural.
What is farm residency?
100
Due to a high rate of poverty, geographic isolations, and lack of mental health services. This is a common psychiatric diagnosis.
What is depression?
100
The most common nursing diagnosis for vulnerable populations.
What is knowledge deficit?
100
This term is defined generally in terms of the geographic location and population density or the distance from or the time needed to commute to an urban center.
What is rural?
100
The inability to speak English presents many barriers to getting adequate health care.
What is a language barrier?
200
Statistics have shown that the average person only completes up to their seventh grade year of middle school.
What is education?
200
Nearly, 50% of all rural adults have been diagnosed with a condition lasting longer than six months.
What is chronic?
200
Teach workers how to reduce exposure to pesticide, conduct screening, and initiate treatment for the symptoms of pesticide exposure.
What are areas of prevention?
200
Acute health effects that include mild psychological and behavioral deficits, such as memory loss, difficulty with concentration, or mood changes; abdominal pain; nausea; vomiting; diarrhea; headache; malaise; skin rashes; and eye irritation.
What is pesticide exposure?
200
Although migrant farm workers and their families bring revenue into the community, they are often perceived as poor, uneducated, transient, and ethically different.
What is discrimination?
300
This resource is most often unavailable, unreliable, and expensive within rural populations.
What is transportation?
300
The incidence of what disease is estimated to be higher among migrant farm workers than the general population, and they are more likely to die from the disease.
What is Tuberculosis?
300
It is a service that is taken to people who have difficulty accessing the services in a stationary clinic.
What are mobile health clinics?
300
Serve more than 760,000 people in the United States.
What is Migrant health centers?
300
75% of the Mexicans that are migrant workers make up this population.
What is racial minority?
400
A problem in rural areas, where the ratio of services and distance doesn’t meet the need of the rural population.
What is access?
400
In November 1912, the formal rural nursing organization was founded to care for the sick in small communities to provide an informal social support system.
What is the Red Cross Rural Nursing Service?
400
Updates immunization and perhaps to teach maturation classes to students in the upper grades.
What is a school nurse?
400
A person “whose principal employment is in agriculture on a seasonal basis, who has been so employed within the last 24 months, and who establishes for the purpose of such employment a temporary abode”.
What is migrant farmer?
400
Folk medicine or traditional or alternative health practices are observed by the majority of the rural populations.
What is the mexican culture?
500
Many residents lack proper medical coverage due to financial instability and or being employed in small businesses.
What is insurance?
500
Families have a difficult time paying for private health insurance do to this hardship.
What is annual income?
500
An electronic program where Health Care providers can communicate with patients via electronics.
What is telehealth?
500
An act signed in 1962 that provides primary and supplemental health services to migrant workers and their families at 154 migrant health centers in 42 states.
What is the Migrant Health Act?
500
This often effects minorities abilities to be considered an American citizen resulting in being uninsured.
What is documentation?