Mark Swanson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6264085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Swanson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Swanson |
| SIGNATURE | SWANSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Health Behavior University of Kentucky Lexington Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Addressing Health Inequities in Appalachian Kentucky Through Community-Engaged Interventions
As this issue suggests, medical and applied anthropologists have been working in Appalachia for many years. Many applied medical anthropologists have cautioned about the limits of seeing the people of this special region as a uniform group, defined by cultural difference and isolated from broader society (Drew and Schoenberg 2011). Appalachian perspectives about health often vary widely, suggesting a diversity that may better demonstrate Appalach…
Perspectives on Healthy Eating Among Appalachian Residents
PURPOSE: Extensive attention has been focused on improving the dietary intake of Americans. Such focus is warranted due to increasing rates of overweight, obesity, and other dietary-related disease. To address suboptimal dietary intake requires an improved, contextualized understanding of the multiple and intersecting influences on healthy eating, particularly among those populations at greatest risk of and from poor diet, including rural residen…
Promoting consumption of fruit in elementary school cafeterias. The effects of slicing apples and oranges
The Encounter of Eastern Christianity with Early Islam
The theme of this book is the early encounters between Christianity and Islam in the eastern provinces of the Byzantine Empire and in Persia from the beginnings of Islam in Mecca to the time of the Abbasids in Bagdad. The contributions in this volume deal with crucial subjects of political and theological dialogue and controversy that characterized the varying responses of the Christian communities in the Byzantine Eastern provinces to the Islami…
Farm Communities at the Crossroads
Farm Communities at the Crossroads
The Encounter of Eastern Christianity with Early Islam
The theme of this book is the early encounters between Christianity and Islam in the eastern provinces of the Byzantine Empire and in Persia from the beginnings of Islam in Mecca to the time of the Abbasids in Bagdad. The contributions in this volume deal with crucial subjects of political and theological dialogue and controversy that characterized the varying responses of the Christian communities in the Byzantine Eastern provinces to the Islami…
Promoting consumption of fruit in elementary school cafeterias. The effects of slicing apples and oranges
Perspectives on Healthy Eating Among Appalachian Residents
PURPOSE: Extensive attention has been focused on improving the dietary intake of Americans. Such focus is warranted due to increasing rates of overweight, obesity, and other dietary-related disease. To address suboptimal dietary intake requires an improved, contextualized understanding of the multiple and intersecting influences on healthy eating, particularly among those populations at greatest risk of and from poor diet, including rural residen…
Addressing Health Inequities in Appalachian Kentucky Through Community-Engaged Interventions
As this issue suggests, medical and applied anthropologists have been working in Appalachia for many years. Many applied medical anthropologists have cautioned about the limits of seeing the people of this special region as a uniform group, defined by cultural difference and isolated from broader society (Drew and Schoenberg 2011). Appalachian perspectives about health often vary widely, suggesting a diversity that may better demonstrate Appalach…
Sociology (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Appalachia (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Gerontology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (2 works)