Rural Health

Overview:

What are the contours of rural healthcare, the people, their ideas, their hopes, and their well-being? What are the cultural currents, past and present, that shape the characteristics of our communities?

These projects examine the ethos of rural health and the ideology that shapes and is shaped by, the history and contemporary configurations of these places. These projects endeavor to uncover this ideology, to render it “in plain sight,” and so we delve into those taken-for-granted assumptions – those things that go without saying – about the rural, the farmer, the pioneer, in an effort to lay bare those currents that shape our current and historical understanding of the Rural in the Midwest and elsewhere.

Recent Blog Posts for Rural Health

REACH Lab Publishes First Policy Brief "Investing in the Safety and Health of Nebraska Communities Through the Authorization and Implementation

Food Deserts and the Farm-to-Fork Movement Nebraska is known for its crop, and for its stature in the agricultural economy. Land

Gladys Godinez, a participant in the Minority Health Disparities Initiative's  Health Voice Vision project, was recently interviewed by Chuck Schroeder, the Directer of

The REACH lab's Minority Health Disparities Initiative (MHDI) project has partnered with other community organizations on an exhibit at the Nebraska

UNL's Quantitative Life Sciences Initiative and Holland Computing Center hosted the first-ever Datapalooza this November. Datapalooza was a competitive data

Professor Colleen Syron, MHDI Faculty Affiliate, asked design students in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts to create