Cooperative Extension as a Force for Healthy, Rural Communities

Historical Perspectives and Future Directions

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11017376
AutoresDavid R Buys (0000-0001-8547-056X, David R. Buys is with Mississippi State University, Starkville. Roger Rennekamp is with Extension Committee on Organization and Policy, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, Washington DC.), Roger Rennekamp (David R. Buys is with Mississippi State University, Starkville. Roger Rennekamp is with Extension Committee on Organization and Policy, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, Washington DC.)
Año2020
Volumen110
Número9
Páginas1300-1303
Fecha de publicación2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditorialAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2020.305767
PMID32673106
OpenAlexW3043470983
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas1

Cooperative Extension (Extension), part of the land-grant university system, has been engaged in rural communities for more than a century. While the focus of Extension’s efforts has largely centered on agriculture, there is an important thread of work that has similarities to public health. As Extension settles into its second century, we are working to be even more engaged in efforts that improve the health and well-being of rural communities in particular. Extension faculty and staff are accomplishing this through direct-to-the-population education and through partnerships with more classically oriented public health organizations able to leverage Extension’s networks and positive reputation in communities to engage them and improve their health. A component of these partnerships includes Extension faculty and staff increasingly engaging in policy, systems, and environment work and other initiatives that help ensure longer-term, systemic changes more likely to improve health outcomes. In short, Extension clearly changed the agricultural system of the United States, and because of its reach into rural communities, it has the capacity to do for health in rural communities in this second century what it did for agriculture in the first century

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