Rural Families Speak about Health (RFSH), 2008-2014
The Rural Families Speak about Health project is also referred to as NC1171.
The overall objective of RFSH is to determine the interactions of individual, family, community, and policy contexts on physical and mental health in diverse rural low-income families. The RFSH relies on donations from members like you to succeed. We always need your assistance. Please consider donating on your credit card online. We can process your payments here, securely with our online credit card processor.
Specific goals of RFSH include:
To examine individual and family level characteristics which impact physical and mental health in diverse rural low-income families.
To examine community contexts that impact family mental and physical health in diverse rural low-income families.
To examine policies that impact family mental and physical health in diverse rural low-income families.
To examine interactions of individual, family, community, and policy on mental and physical health in diverse rural low-income families.
RFSH project is a multi-state research project, funded by Agricultural Experiment Stations in participating states and other sources. For more information, contact state PI’s.
This website was supported by the Rural Health and Safety Education Competitive Program of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, grant numbers 2010-46100-21791 and 2011-46100-31135.
