Dreamal Worthen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4192557 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dreamal Worthen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dreamal |
| FAMILY NAME | Worthen |
| SIGNATURE | WORTHEN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Social Networks Influence Vaccine Confidence in Rural Black Americans
Public health interventions to increase vaccine uptake among rural Black adults should focus on social networks to enhance the credibility of the information provided by experts
A Community Based Approach to Deter Childhood Obesity in Title 1 Schools
Community development is an effort to build resources that increase inhabitants' ability to improve their life quality. Obesity is a significant health risk to individuals and their communities. In 2016/2017, school screenings showed that 28.3% of first-graders, 35.4% of third-, and 14.1% of sixth-graders in a Florida Panhandle school district were overweight. Additional data revealed an increase in overweight individuals with large proportions o…
Attending to Place, Race, and Community
The communities in the Black Belt South and Central Appalachian regions in the United States share long histories of persistent subjugation. Both regions also have strong traditions of partnerships between grassroots activists and scholars—partnerships that have, at times, lent resilient responses to political, economic and cultural challenges, and at other times, been less hospitable to inclusivity, particularly of the voices from community memb…
Wildland Recreation in the Rural South
The ethnicity and marginality explanations of minority recreation participation provide the conceptual basis for our inquiry. These theories are examined for a sample of rural African Americans and whites. Using logistic regression, we test for black and white differences in: 1) visitation to wildland areas in general; 2) visitation to National Forest wildland areas; and 3) household visitation to the Apalachicola National Forest. Next, we test t…
Wildland Recreation in the Rural South
The ethnicity and marginality explanations of minority recreation participation provide the conceptual basis for our inquiry. These theories are examined for a sample of rural African Americans and whites. Using logistic regression, we test for black and white differences in: 1) visitation to wildland areas in general; 2) visitation to National Forest wildland areas; and 3) household visitation to the Apalachicola National Forest. Next, we test t…
A Community Based Approach to Deter Childhood Obesity in Title 1 Schools
Community development is an effort to build resources that increase inhabitants' ability to improve their life quality. Obesity is a significant health risk to individuals and their communities. In 2016/2017, school screenings showed that 28.3% of first-graders, 35.4% of third-, and 14.1% of sixth-graders in a Florida Panhandle school district were overweight. Additional data revealed an increase in overweight individuals with large proportions o…
Wildland Recreation in the Rural South
The ethnicity and marginality explanations of minority recreation participation provide the conceptual basis for our inquiry. These theories are examined for a sample of rural African Americans and whites. Using logistic regression, we test for black and white differences in: 1) visitation to wildland areas in general; 2) visitation to National Forest wildland areas; and 3) household visitation to the Apalachicola National Forest. Next, we test t…
Attending to Place, Race, and Community
The communities in the Black Belt South and Central Appalachian regions in the United States share long histories of persistent subjugation. Both regions also have strong traditions of partnerships between grassroots activists and scholars—partnerships that have, at times, lent resilient responses to political, economic and cultural challenges, and at other times, been less hospitable to inclusivity, particularly of the voices from community memb…
A Community Based Approach to Deter Childhood Obesity in Title 1 Schools
Community development is an effort to build resources that increase inhabitants' ability to improve their life quality. Obesity is a significant health risk to individuals and their communities. In 2016/2017, school screenings showed that 28.3% of first-graders, 35.4% of third-, and 14.1% of sixth-graders in a Florida Panhandle school district were overweight. Additional data revealed an increase in overweight individuals with large proportions o…
Social Networks Influence Vaccine Confidence in Rural Black Americans
Public health interventions to increase vaccine uptake among rural Black adults should focus on social networks to enhance the credibility of the information provided by experts
Gender Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Rural area (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Appalachia (1 works) · Childhood obesity (1 works) · Community and Sustainable Development (1 works) · Community organizing (1 works) · Credibility (1 works)