The Appalachian region has experienced persistently higher poverty and lower earnings than the rest of the United States. We examine whether lower skill differentials or differences in the returns to those skills lie at the root of the persistent Appalachian wage gap. Using Census data, we decompose the Appalachian wage gap using both mean and full distribution methods. Our findings suggest tha...

Context: The professional literature indicates health has a positive correlation with socioeconomic status. More specifically, prior research documents heightened rates of lung cancer incidence and mortality in Appalachia, a region plagued by persistent poverty and below-average educational attainment. This study analyzed predictors of lung cancer mortality within Kentucky, a predominantly rura...

Medical service shortages, rural residence, and socioeconomic and cultural factors may pose barriers to breast and cervical cancer screening among women living in the Appalachian region of the United States. This study determined the rates of breast and cervical cancer screening in Appalachia and identified factors associated with screening. Data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Sys...

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ABSTRACT Fifty-four clients (13to 52-years-old) in an Appalachian sheltered,workshopww9,re,administered the Slosson Drawing Coordination Test ODCT) and the BeWder Visual Motor Gestalt Test. Twenty-nine Ss were labeled possibly brain damaged by the SDCT, and 17 Ss by the M. Hutt scoring system for the Bender-Gestalt. Two psychologists using all available data and clinical judgment classified onl...

This article describes the prevalence of risky behaviors known to be associated with increased cancer morbidity and mortality among Ohio Appalachian adults. These behaviors, or risk factors, include: 1) tobacco use; 2) energy imbalance (involving poor diet, obesity, and physical inactivity); and 3) sexual behaviors. We report current estimates of the prevalence of these behaviors among Ohio App...

Abstract Eocene mafic magmatism in the Himalaya provides a crucial window for probing evolution of crustal anatexis processes within lower plate collisional orogen. We report geochemical data from earliest postcollision ocean-island basalt–like dikes intruding Tethyan near northern edge colliding Indian plate. These occurred coeval, and spatially overlap, with granitoids cores gneiss domes were...

Carboniferous magmatism in southwestern Iberia was continuously active for more than 60 m.y. during the development of Appalachian-Variscan belt North America, Africa and Western-Central Europe. This collisional orogen that records closure Rheic Ocean is essential to understanding late Paleozoic amalgamation Pangea supercontinent. However, oblique convergence between Laurussia Gondwana lasted f...

Abstract The proto-Alpine Cenerian orogen (Ediacaran-Ordovician) and the Cadomian (Ediacaran-Cambrian), remnants of which are exposed in central European Variscides, should be defined as two distinct spatially separated coastal orogens within Avalonian-Cadomian belt. originally lay front Sahara metacraton. It underwent a change from an active to passive margin setting during Cambrian. orogen, r...