Obesity rates are higher among rural children than urban children in the United States. To ensure successful targeted interventions and effective resource allocation, practitioners and policy makers alike should be cognizant of this disparity in childhood obesity.

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Future efforts should focus on developing interventions and policies that target rural residents and lower SES areas to eliminate disparities in CRC-related outcomes.

Background: Although the negative effects of lower socioeconomic status on non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treatment and survival have been widely studied, the impact of residential segregation on prognosis and the receipt of treatment has yet to be determined.Methods: This is a retrospective, cohort study of NSCLC patients in Georgia (2000-2009; n ¼ 8,322) using data from the Georgia Comprehensive Cancer Registry. The effects of segregation, economic deprivation, and combined segregation/deprivation on the odds of receiving surgery were examined in separate multilevel models. To determine the association for the exposures of interest on the risk of death for different racial groups, separate multilevel survival models were conducted for black and white patients.Results: Living in areas with the highest [AOR ¼ 0.35, 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.19-0.64] and second highest

BackgroundA systematic literature review was performed to investigate the occurrence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) in prisons located in countries formerly part of the Soviet Union.MethodsA systematic search of published studies reporting MDR TB occurrence in prisons located in former Soviet countries was conducted by probing PubMed and Cumulative Index Nursing and Allied Health Literature for articles that met predetermined inclusion criteria.ResultsSeventeen studies were identified for systematic review. Studies were conducted in six different countries. Overall, prevalence of MDR TB among prisoners varied greatly between studies. Our findings suggest a high prevalence of MDR TB in prisons of Post-Soviet states with percentages as high as 16 times more than the worldwide prevalence estimated by the WHO in 2014.ConclusionAll studies suggested a high prevalence of MDR TB in prison populations in Post-Soviet states.