Journal articles and books/book chapters

Anderson, Cory, and Rachel Bacon. Forthcoming (Fall 2023). “Profiles of Major Amish Settlements in North America: A Guide for Researchers and Service Providers.” Journal of Amish & Plain Anabaptist Studies.

Cafer, Anne, Meagen Rosenthal, Brookshield Laurent, Jennifer Cooper, and Raeda Anderson. 2020. “Heath Landscapes in the South: Rurality, Racism, and a Path Forward.” Study the South, October 27, 2020. https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/study-the-south/health-landscapes-in-the-south/.

Chapman, Alexander, Ashton M. Verdery, and Shannon M. Monnat. In Press. “Opioid Misuse and Family Structure: Changes and Continuities in the Role of Marriage and Children over Two Decades.” Drug and Alcohol Dependence. PMID: 33766441

Cheng, Kent J.G., Yue Sun, and Shannon M. Monnat. 2020. “COVID-19 Death Rates are Higher in Rural Counties with Larger Shares of Blacks and Hispanics.” Journal of Rural Health 36(4):602-608. PMCID: PMC7885172

Clark, Shelley, Elizabeth M. Lawrence, and Shannon M. Monnat. 2022. “Support from Adult Children and Parental Health in Rural America.” Journal of Rural Social Sciences 37(1). (submitted to NIHMSID: 1799194)

Coward, Kara, Anne Cafer, Meagen Rosenthal, David Allen III, Queenie Paltanwale. 2021. “An Exploration of Key Barriers to Healthcare Providers’ Use of Food Prescription (FRx) Interventions in the Rural South.” Public Health Nutrition 24(5): 1095-1103.

Davidson, Trent, Jason Boardman, and Lori Hunter. 2022. “Exploring Rural-Urban Differences in Polygenic Associations for Health among Older Adults in the United States.” Journal of Rural Social Sciences, 37(1): Article 4. Available at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jrss/vol37/iss1/4

Glauber, Rebecca. 2022. “Rural Depopulation and the Rural-Urban Gap in Cognitive Functioning among Older Adults.” Rural Health 38(4): 696-704.

Golding, Shaun A. and Richelle L. Winkler. 2020. “Tracking Urbanization and Exurbs: Migration across the Rural-Urban Continuum, 1990-2016.” Population Research and Policy Review 39:835-859.

Green, John J., Shannon M. Monnat, Leif Jensen, Lori Hunter, and Martin Sliwinski. 2022. “Rural Population Health and Aging: Introduction to the Special Issue.” Journal of Rural Social Sciences 37(1).

Hochstetler, Andrew, David J. Peters, and Shannon M. Monnat. 2022. “Prescription Opioid Resiliency and Vulnerability: A Mixed-Methods Comparative Case Study.” American Journal of Criminal Justice 47:651-671. PMCID: PMC9660123

Henly, M., & Brucker, D.L.  Rural and non-rural differences in well-being associated with functional decline among older adults. Manuscript submitted to submission to Disability and Society. Under review.

Hester, C.M., Leyk, S. and Gutmann, M. “Examining the Risk of Scalar Bias in Spatial Epidemiological Research Using High-Resolution Mortality Data” Manuscript in revision

Hunter, Lori M., Catherine Talbot, Dylan Connor, Miriam Counterman, Johannes Uhl, Myron Gutmann, and Stefan Leyk. 2020. “Change in U.S. Small Town Community Capitals, 1980-2010.” Population Research and Policy Review. 39(5), 913-940.

Jensen, Leif, Shannon M. Monnat, John J. Green, Lori M. Hunter, and Martin J. Sliwinski. 2020. “Rural Population Health and Aging: Toward a Multilevel and Multidimensional Research Agenda for the 2020s.” American Journal of Public Health. 110, no. 9: 1328-1331.

Johnson, Kenneth M. 2020. “As Births Diminish and Deaths Increase, Natural Decrease Becomes More Widespread in Rural America.” Rural Sociology. 85(4): 1045-1058. DOI: 10.1111/ruso.12358

Johnson, Kenneth M. 2020. “Subnational Non-Hispanic White Natural Decrease in the United States.” Population and Development Review. 46(1):7 31. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12323

Johnson, Kenneth M., and Daniel T. Lichter.  2020.  “Metropolitan Reclassification and the Urbanization of Rural America.”  Demography, 57, 1929-2050. PMID: 32869177

Lichter, Daniel T. and Kenneth M. Johnson. 2020. “A Demographic Lifeline? Immigration and Hispanic Population Growth in Rural America.” Population Research and Policy Review. 39:785-803. https:doi.org/10.1007/s11113-020-09605-8

Lichter, Daniel T. and Kenneth M. Johnson. 2021. “Opportunity and Place: Latino Children and America’s Future”. The Annals of Political and Social Science. Forthcoming.

Lichter, Daniel T., David L. Brown, and Domenico Parisi  2021.  “The Rural-Urban Interface: Rural and Small-Town Growth at the Metropolitan Fringe.” Population, Space and Place, 27(3), 1-14.

Michael, Y. L., Smiley, K. T., Clay, L., Hirsch, J. A., & Lovasi, G. S. 2023. “Uneven Growth in Social Capital Organizations After Disasters by Pre-Disaster Conditions in the United States 2000–2014.” Disaster medicine and public health preparedness, 17, e278.

Monnat, Shannon M. 2020. “Trends in U.S. Working-Age Non-Hispanic White Mortality: Rural-Urban and Within-Rural Differences.” Population Research and Policy Review 39(5):805-834. PMCID: PMC7472949

Monnat, Shannon M. 2020. “The Opioid Crisis in Rural America: Trends, Causes and Consequences.” In Rural Families and Communities, edited by S. McHale, J. Glick, and V. King. New York: Springer.

Monnat, Shannon M. 2022. “Rural-Urban Variation in COVID-19 Experiences and Impacts among U.S. Working-Age Adults.” ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 698(1):111-136.

Monnat, Shannon M. and Irma T. Elo. 2022. “Enhancing the Utility of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to Identify Drivers of Rising Mortality Rates in the United States.” Forum for Health Economics & Policy. PMID: 35254742

Montez, Jennifer Karas., Nader Mehri, Shannon M. Monnat, Jason Beckfield, Derek Chapman, Jacob Grumbach, Mark D. Hayward, Steven H. Woolf, and Anna Zajacova. 2022. “U.S. State Policy Contexts and Mortality of Working-Age Adults.” PLOS ONE 17(10): e0275466. PMCID: PMC9604945

Newsom, Jason T., Emily C. Denning, Benjamin A. Shaw, Kristin J. August, and Scott J. Strath. 2020. “Older adults’ physical activity-related social control and social support in the context of personal norms.” In press at Journal of Health Psychology.

Pendergrast, Claire. (2021). “There Was No ‘That’s Not My Job’”: New York Area Agencies on Aging Approaches to Supporting Older Adults During COVID-19.” Journal of Applied Gerontology

Pendergrast, Claire, Basia Belza, Ann Bostrom, and Nicole Errett. 2020. “Examining the Role of Ageing-in-Place Organizations in Building Older Adults’ Disaster Resilience.” Ageing and Society, 1-26.

Pendergrast, Claire and Shannon M. Monnat. 2022. “Perceived Impacts of COVID-19 on Wellbeing among U.S. Working-Age Adults with ADL Difficulty.” Disability and Health Journal 15(4). PMCID: PMC9060733

Pendergrast, Claire, Rhubart, Danielle C. (2022). Socio-Spatial Disparities in County-Level Availability of Aging and Disability Services Organizations. Journal of Rural Social Sciences, 37(1): 3. Available at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jrss/vol37/iss1/3

Peters, David. J., Shannon M. Monnat, Andrew Hochstetler, and Mark Berg. 2020.  “The Opioid Hydra: Understanding Mortality Epidemics and Pandemics across the Rural-Urban Continuum.” Rural Sociology. PMCID pending

Rhubart, Danielle C., Shannon Monnat, Claire Pendergrast, and Leif Jensen. 2020. “The Unique Impacts of U.S. Social and Health Policies on Rural Population Health and Aging.” Public Policy and Aging Report 31(1):24-29. PMCID: PMC7799382

Rhubart, D. Kowalkowski, J. (2022). Perceived Mental Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Social Support and Social Engagement for Working Age Adults. Preventive Medicine, 107171. 10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107171

Roth, Adam R., Siyun Peng, and Brea L. Perry. 2022. “Personal Network Bridging Potential Across Geographic Context.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 77(3):626–35. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbab103. PMCID: PMC8893139

Sun, Yue, Kent Jason G. Cheng, and Shannon M. Monnat. Forthcoming. “Rural-Urban and Within-Rural Differences in COVID-19 Mortality Rates.” Journal of Rural Social Sciences.

Sun, Yue and Shannon M. Monnat. 2021. “Rural-Urban and Within-Rural Differences in COVID-19 Vaccination Rates.” The Journal of Rural Health. PMCID: PMC8661570

Sun, Yue, Rhubart, Danielle C. (2022). Rural-Urban Differences in the Association between Aging & Disability Services and COVID-19 Vaccination Rates among Older Adults. Journal of Applied Gerontology. 10.1177/07334648221119457

Verdery, Ashton M., Kira England, Alexander Chapman, Liying Luo, Katherine McLean, and Shannon Monnat. 2020. “Visualizing Age, Period, and Cohort Patterns in the U.S. Opioid Crisis.” Socius 6:1-3.  PMCID pending

Wolf, Douglas, Shannon M. Monnat, and Jennifer Karas Montez. 2021. “Effects of U.S. State Preemption on Infant Mortality Rates.” Preventive Medicine 145: 106417. PMCID: PMC7956067

Wolf, Douglas A., Jennifer Karas Montez, and Shannon M. Monnat. 2022. “U.S. State Preemption Laws and Working-Age Mortality.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine 63(5):681-688. PMID: 36272759

Yang, T. C., Shoff, C., & Kim, S. (2022). Social isolation, residential stability, and opioid use disorder among older Medicare beneficiaries: Metropolitan and non-metropolitan county comparison. Social Science & Medicine, 292, 114605.

Yang, T. C., Carla Shoff, Kim Seulki and Benjamin A. Shaw. (In Press). “County Social Isolation and Opioid Use Disorder among Older Adults: A Longitudinal Analysis of Medicare Data, 2013–2018.” Social Science & Medicine. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114971

Zacher, Meghan, Samantha Brady, and Susan E. Short. 2023. “Geographic Patterns of Dementia in the United States: Variation by Place of Residence, Place of Birth, and Subpopulation.” The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. (PMCID not yet available.)

 

research and policy briefs

Brown, Austin McNeill* and Shannon M. Monnat. 2021. “The Public Good, Bad Policies, and Tough Times: When Profit and Public Interests Collide.” Issue Brief #46. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series.

Cafer, Anne. 2020. “Is the South More at Risk for COVID-19?” the University of Mississippi, College of Liberal Arts. April 14, 2020. https://libarts.olemiss.edu/is-the-south-more-at-risk-for-covid-19/

Cafer, Anne and Meagen Rosenthal. 2020. “Coronavirus is Spreading Through the Rural South’s High-Risk Population: Reopening Economies will Make it Worse.” The Conversation. April 24, 2020. https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-is-spreading-through-rural-souths-high-risk-population-reopening-economies-will-make-it-worse-136817

Cafer, Anne, Meagen Rosenthal, and Katherine Brote. 2020. “COVID-19 and Civic Engagement in Mississippi.” UM CREW Policy Brief, September 2020. https://crew.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/324/2020/09/COVID-Voting-Mississippi.pdf

Cafer, Anne, Meagen Rosenthal, Brookshield Laurent, Jennifer Cooper, and Raeda Anderson. 2020. “Heath Landscapes in the South: Rurality, Racism, and a Path Forward.” Study the South, October 27, 2020. https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/study-the-south/health-landscapes-in-the-south/

Chandler, Raeven Faye. 2020. “Hunger in the Commonwealth: Food Security in Pennsylvania.” Issue 2. January.

Chandler, Raeven Faye. 2020. “COVID19 & The Commonwealth: Vulnerable Populations in Pennsylvania: Aging.” Issue 4. March.

Chandler, Raeven Faye. 2020. “COVID19 & The Commonwealth: Vulnerable Populations in Pennsylvania: Health Risks and Factors.” Issue 5. April.

Chandler, Raeven Faye. 2020. “COVID19 & The Commonwealth: Vulnerable Populations in Pennsylvania: Population, Density, Proximity.” Issue 6. May.

Chandler, Raeven Faye, Shannon M. Monnat, and Yue Sun. 2020. “High COVID-19 Mortality Risk in Pennsylvania’s Rural Counties.” Data Slice #24. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series.

Chandler, Raeven Faye, Katrina Alford, Leif Jensen. 2021. “COVID-19 Case Rates in Rural and Urban Pennsylvania.” Penn State Social Science Research Institute blog.

Cheng, Kent J.G., Yue Sun, and Shannon M. Monnat. 2020. “Rural COVID-19 Mortality Rates are Highest in Counties with the Largest Percentages of Blacks and Hispanics.” Research Brief #31. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series.

Green, John J. 2020. “Population 65 Years and Older Varies by Region and Non-Metro Status in Mississippi: Implications for COVID-19.” Population Brief (The University of Mississippi Center for Population Studies): April 3. Available from: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/population_brief/1/

Green, J. 2022. “Delta Population Change Has Implications for Weathering the Future.” Brief #2022-5. Rural Population Research Network.

Helander, Mary and Pendergrast, Claire. 2020. “New York State’s Older Adults in Assisted Living Facilities Need All of Us to Help Them Avoid the Coronavirus.” Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion: Population Health Research Brief Series. 62. https://surface.syr.edu/lerner/62.

Johnson, Kenneth M. 2020. “An Older Population Increases Estimated COVID-19 Death Rates in Rural America.” Carsey Research National Issue Brief. Durham, NH: Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire. 147.

Johnson, Kenneth M. 2020. “Deaths Exceeded Births in Nearly Half of U.S. Counties Last Year.” Carsey Data Snapshot. Durham, NH: Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire.

Johnson, Kenneth M. 2020. “Distribution of New Hampshire Older Population Complicates Health Care Delivery During the Coronavirus Epidemic.” Carsey Data Snapshot. Durham, NH: Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire.

Johnson, Kenneth M. 2020. “Health Conditions and an Older Population Increase COVID-19 Risks in Rural America.” Carsey Research National Issue Brief. Durham, NH: Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire. 150.

Johnson, Kenneth M. 2020. “New Hampshire Population Grew Last Year, Even Though Deaths Exceeded Births.” Carsey Data Snapshot. Durham, NH: Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire.

Johnson, Kenneth M. and Daniel T. Lichter. 2020. “Is Rural America Failing or Succeeding? Maybe Both.” Carsey Research National Issue Brief. Durham, NH: Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire. 151.

McNamara, Emily F, Andrew J. Ritchey, and Raeven Faye Chandler. 2020. “COVID19 & The Commonwealth: Vulnerable Populations in Pennsylvania: Family Types, Employment & Poverty.” Issue 7. June.

Monnat, Shannon M. 2020. “The U.S. Rural Mortality Penalty is Wide and Growing.” Research Brief #35. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series.

Monnat, Shannon M. 2020. “Why Coronavirus Could Hit Rural Areas Harder.” Issue Brief #16. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series.

Monnat, Shannon M. 2022. “Rural Adults Report Worse Employment and Economic Impacts from COVID-19 than Urban Adults.” Brief #2022-2. Rural Population Research Network.

Monnat, Shannon M. 2022. “Mortality Rates are Higher in Rural than in Urban Areas, and the Gap is Growing.” Brief #2022-12. Rural Population Research Network.

Monnat, Shannon M. 2022. “Rural Adults Report Worse COVID-19 Impacts than Urban Adults.” Research Brief #67. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series.

Monnat, Shannon M. 2023. “Which Demographic Groups and Which Places Have the Highest Drug Overdose Rates in the U.S.?” Research Brief #91. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series.

Monnat, Shannon M. and Kent Jason G. Cheng. 2020. “COVID-19 Testing Rates are Lower in States with More Black and Poor Residents.” Data Slice #15. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series.

Monnat, Shannon M. and Kent Jason G. Cheng. 2020. “Geographic Disparities in COVID-19 Testing: An Urgent Call to Action.” Research Brief #19. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series.

Monnat, Shannon M. and Danielle C. Rhubart. 2022. “Rural Working-Age Adults Report Worse Health than their Urban Peers.” Data Slice #50. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series.

Monnat, Shannon M. and Yue Sun. 2020. “New York State’s Rural Counties have Higher COVID-19 Mortality Risk.” Data Slice #22. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series.

Monnat, Shannon M. and Yue Sun. 2021. “Why are COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Lower in Rural than in Urban Areas of the U.S.? Research Brief #52. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series.

Montez, Jennifer Karas, Nader Mehri, and Shannon M. Monnat. 2022. “Conservative State Policies Contribute to Higher Mortality Rates among Working-Age Americans.” Research Brief #80. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. High and Rising Mortality Rates Among Working-Age Adults. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. (474 pages). https://doi.org/10.17226/25976.

Pendergrast, Claire. 2020 “Aging-in-Place Organizations are Key to Building Disaster Resilience for Older Adults.” Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion: Population Health Research Brief Series. 39. https://surface.syr.edu/lerner/39.

Pendergrast, Claire. 2021 “Area Agencies on Aging Provide Crucial Support for Older New Yorkers During COVID-19.”. Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion: Population Health Research Brief Series. 117. https://surface.syr.edu/lerner/117.

Pendergrast, Claire. 2020 “Tips for Communicating with Older Adults about COVID-19.” Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion: Population Health Research Brief Series. 66. https://surface.syr.edu/lerner/66.

Pendergrast, Claire and Helander, Mary. 2020. “Staying Safe and Healthy During Coronavirus Response: A Guide for Older Adults.” Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion: Population Health Research Brief Series. 73. https://surface.syr.edu/lerner/73

Rhubart, Danielle, “Flooding Negatively Affects Health and Rural America is Not Immune” (2020). Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion: Population Health Research Brief Series. 8.
https://surface.syr.edu/lerner/8

Rhubart, Danielle, “Preventing Heat-Related Fatalities during the COVID-19 Pandemic” (2020). Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion: Population Health Research Brief Series. 115. https://surface.syr.edu/lerner/115

Rhubart, Danielle C., Shannon M. Monnat (2022). Self-Rated Physical Health among Working-Aged Adults Along the Rural-Urban Continuum – United States, 2021. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 71(5):161-166. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7105a1external icon

Rhubart, Danielle, Shannon M. Monnat, and Yue Sun. 2020. “Rural Ohio Faces High Health Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Data Slice #26. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series.

Ritchey, Andrew J., Emily F. McNamara, and Raeven Faye Chandler. 2020. “COVID19 & The Commonwealth: Vulnerable Populations in Pennsylvania: Remote Communications: Technology & Internet Access.” Issue 7. July.

Schoff, Carla, Tse-Chuan Yang, and Benjamin A. Shaw. 2021. “Trends in Opioid Use Disorder among Older Adults: Analyzing Medicare Data, 2013-2018.” American Journal of Preventative Medicine (PMCID: In Process: 33812694). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2021.01.010

Wolf, Douglas A., Shannon M. Monnat, and Jennifer Karas Montez. 2021. “Allowing Cities to Raise the Minimum Wage Could Prevent Hundreds of Infant Deaths Annually.” Research Brief #37. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series.

Wolf, Douglas A., Jennifer Karas Montez, and Shannon M. Monnat. 2022. “Allowing Cities to Mandate Employer Paid Sick Leave Could Reduce Deaths among Working-Age Adults.” Research Brief #75. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series.