Obesity among working age adults: the role of county-level persistent poverty in rural disparities

KJ Bennett, JC Probst, C Pumkam - Health & place, 2011 - Elsevier
Little research has investigated the relationship between county-level poverty and obesity
rates. We examined the factors related to obesity among residents of Rural Persistent Poverty …

Rural–urban differences in the location of influenza vaccine administration

KJ Bennett, C Pumkam, JC Probst - Vaccine, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Influenza vaccination rates remain lower than Healthy People 2010 goals.
The lower rates are prevalent in rural areas despite an expansion of services to …

Cancer screening delivery in persistent poverty rural counties

KJ Bennett, C Pumkam, JD Bellinger… - Journal of primary …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Rural populations are diagnosed with cancer at different rate and stages than
nonrural populations, and race/ethnicity as well as the area-level income exacerbates the …

Vision insurance, eye care visits, and vision impairment among working-age adults in the United States

YJ Li, S Xirasagar, C Pumkam… - JAMA …, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Objectives To compare rates of eye care visits and vision impairment among working-age
adults with vision insurance vs without, among the total sample of Behavioral Risk Factor …

Health care expenditures among working-age adults with physical disabilities: variations by disability spans

C Pumkam, JC Probst, KJ Bennett, J Hardin… - Disability and health …, 2013 - Elsevier
Background Data on health care costs for working-age adults with physical disabilities are
sparse and the dynamic nature of disability is not captured. Objectives To assess the effect of …

“PDSA-ADHD”: a newly reported syndrome

EG Baxley, KJ Bennett, C Pumkam… - The Journal of the …, 2011 - Am Board Family Med
We present a satirical case report of a new syndrome, called “plan do study act–attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder,” or PDSA-ADHD. This syndrome is associated with the …

Personal and contextual factors that contribute to a higher out-of-pocket to total income ratio

…, CE Dismuke, C Pumkam - Rural and Remote Health, 2010 - search.informit.org
… © KJ Bennett, CE Dismuke, C Pumkam, 2010. A licence to publish this material has been
given to James Cook University, http://www.rrh.org.au … © KJ Bennett, CE Dismuke, C …

Health care utilization and expenditures among people with disabilities: Variations by disability spans

C Pumkam - 2012 - search.proquest.com
Background: Working-age adults with disabilities who tend to be socioeconomic disadvantaged
account for a disproportionate share of publically funded health care services and …

Rural poverty, food access, and public health outcomes

A Canto, LE Brown, SC Deller - Choices, 2014 - JSTOR
Public health within the United States is becoming a concern not only from the perspective of
rapidly expanding health care costs but also in terms of economic productivity. Obesity and …

[HTML][HTML] Health care expenditures and length of disability across medical conditions

CS Zaidel, RK Ethiraj, M Berenji… - Journal of Occupational …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
… In a more recent study, Pumkam et al 12 used data from the Medical Expenditures Panel
Survey (MEPS) to evaluate the relationship between disability duration and health expenditures …