LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 15, 2019) — Working hard to help Kentuckians get on, and stay on, the road to better health. For the past 25 years, the University of Kentucky’s Ellen Hahn has been doing just that.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 31, 2020) - Anna Goodman Hoover, Ph.D., is assessing Appalachian Kentuckians’ water-related environmental health literacy. She says that providing residents with useful information to protect their health first requires understanding their knowledge and perceptions of water-related issues. The project is supported by a pilot grant from the University of Kentucky Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences (UK-CARES), which is funded by NIEHS.
UPDATE AS OF 3/12/20:
The CCTS Annual Spring Conference has been cancelled.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 23, 2019) — Yvonne Fondufe–Mittendorf took a winding path from the Republic of Cameroon to the bluegrass of Kentucky.
“I call myself an academic tourist,” she said.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 7, 2020) – When Jean Edward, Ph.D, assistant professor in the University of Kentucky College of Nursing, first started her research into disparities in health care access in the Hispanic and Latino population in Louisville, she was looking into not only how people accessed health care, but why some people had access while others didn’t. She found a number of contributing factors, but one stood out above the rest – how can people access health care if they don’t understand health insurance?
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 12,2019) —A team of investigators working with the Mountain Air Project (MAP) based at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health equipped young research volunteers with digital cameras to allow them to document environmental health issues in their local environments in what is believed to be the first effort at using photovoice to engage youth in environmental health research in Appalachia.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 20,2019) –In a new National Library of Medicine-funded study, "Integrating Information Resources to Promote Environmental Health Literacy in Appalachian Kentucky", a multidisciplinary research team from the UK Colleges of Public Health (CPH) and Engineering (CoE), the School of Human Environmental Sciences (HES), and the Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute (KWRRI) will engage Eastern Kentucky residents in evaluating, synthesizing, and improving existing environmental health information for the region.