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"Rural Women's Health encompasses the breadth and depth of the unique physical and psychological needs facing rural women throughout the United States and Canada, and identifies positive interventions and outcomes. Raymond T. Coward, founding editor of """"The Journal of Rural Health"""", along with five leading practitioners and researchers with contributions from over 25 educators, authors, program leaders, and researchers representing the multidisciplinary spectrum of rural health professionals, present the most comprehensive coverage on rural women's health that exists today. Key issues covered include: socio-cultural stressors; policy changes; barriers to accessing mental health treatment; obesity and risk factors; behavioral risk factors; chronic diseases; exercise, nutrition, and health promotion programs; and education and telehealth. This is a valuable resource for mental health service providers, gerontologists, social workers, psychologists, counselors and primary care physicians."

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Raymond T. Coward, MSW, PhD, is the Raymond E. and Erin Stuart Schultz Professor and Dean of the College of Health and Human Development at The Pennsylvania State University and is a professor of health policy and administration. Lisa A. Davis, MHA, is the Director of the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health. Carol Hancock Gold, PhD, is a faculty member in the Department of Biobehavioral Health, Penn State University, and an Associate Professor in the Institute of Gerontology at Jonkoping University College of Health Sciences in Jonkoping, Sweden. Helen Smiciklas-Wright, PhD, is Professor of Nutrition and Director of the Diet Assessment Center in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University. Luanne E. Thorndyke, MD, FACP, is the Associate Dean for Professional Development and Associate Professor of Medicine of The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. Fred W. Vondracek, PhD, is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Outreach in the College of Health and Human Development at The Pennsylvania State University, Professor of Human Development in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, and Honorary Professor at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena in Germany.

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