Wellness

This topic page provides a brief overview of the Center for Rural Health’s activities relating to Wellness. This page contains a list of projects, key staff, and information pulled from the publications, presentations, events, news, and maps section of the CRH web site.

Projects

• Carol M. White Grant Evaluation -- Evaluation of the after school recreation program in 18 Northwestern Minnesota school districts.
• Healthcare Needs of North Dakota American Indian Veterans -- The purpose of this project was to conduct a statewide assessment of health status, healthcare access, and health risk of AI veterans residing on North Dakota’s four reservations and one Indian service area
• National Resource Center on Native American Aging -- Improving the quality of life for Native elders through research, training and technical assistance.
• State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup -- To utilize relevant state, tribal, and local data to guide substance use prevention planning, programming and evaluation.
• State Office of Rural Health -- A federal-state partnership to help rural communities build their health care services through public and private partnerships and initiatives in rural health development.

Staff

• Baker-Demaray, Twyla
• Dickson, Lynette
• Gray, Jacque

Presentations

• WELL-Balanced: Wise Elders Living Longer
  Presented by McDonald, L. & Betting, L. on Sep 1, 2008 at the National Indian Council on Aging, Tacoma, WA.
• Obesity in American Indian and Alaska Native Elders
  Presented by Muus, K., McDonald, L., Ludtke, R., & Allery, A. on Apr 6, 2006 at the American Indian Research Forum, Grand Forks, ND.

Publications

• The Elders’ Obesity Challenge, McDonald, L., Ludtke, R., Allery, A., & Muus, K., Fall, 2005
  Obesity is an increasingly prominent threat to good health among all Americans, contributing to an estimated 400,000 deaths annually and costing about $122.9 billion, a figure that is comparable to the economic costs of cigarette smoking.
• Healthy Traditions: Recipes of our Ancestors, Goodwin, J. & Hall, J., November, 2004
  A compilation of recipes gathered through the National Resource Center on Native American Aging's traditional recipe project.

Maps

• Center for Rural Health Activities in North Dakota, 2003-2007 -- Displays the location of the Center for Rural Health's activites, from 2003 - 2007, in North Dakota.