Jarron Saint Onge
University of Kansas, KS·Public Health & Epidemiology
People living in rural parts of the United States are dying earlier than their urban counterparts, and the gap has widened most sharply for women. At the same time, rural counties themselves have been changing: new residents arrive for jobs or retirement, some arrived during Covid-19 migration, and others leave.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Social Science
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
rural health
women's health
mortality
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Feb 2029
What they work on
- Determine how mortality among rural women varies with county-level demographic factors and how that relationship has changed over time, using multiple secondary demographic and health datasets across degrees of rurality.
- Examine how rural women's health lifestyles, meaning the combinations of health behaviors they adopt together, have shifted in response to new residents arriving for jobs, retirement or Covid-19 migration.
- Estimate the consequences of different health lifestyle patterns for subsequent health and mortality among rural women, and identify the risk factors and intervention points that could extend healthy lifespan.
More about the research
This project asks whether these demographic shifts help explain the growing mortality disadvantage facing rural women, and where along the way there are opportunities to intervene.
Why it matters
Rural women in the United States face a widening mortality disadvantage, and the reasons are poorly specified. Linking county-level demographic change and in-migration to the health behavior patterns rural women adopt, and then to mortality, could show public health agencies and rural health programs which risk factors and which kinds of counties to target, and at what point in the pathway an intervention is most likely to extend healthy lifespan.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
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