PURPOSE Although demographic, clinicopathologic, and socioeconomic differences may affect treatment and outcomes of prostate cancer, the effect of mental health disorders remains unclear. We assessed the effect of previously diagnosed depression on outcomes of men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS We performed a population-based observational cohort study using Survei...

Rural areas and small towns are facing new challated to these impacts. With shifting populations, ecolenges as their economies grow and develop. The popnomic changes, and energy development, reliable ulation influx to nonmetropolitan areas has brought new impact models are increasingly useful. Many types of and increasing demands for community services. Premodels and methodologies have been dev...

A certain social-political geography recurs across European and North American societies: As post-industrialization mechanization of agriculture have disrupted economies, rural nonmetropolitan areas are aging declining in population, leading to widening political cultural gaps between metropolitan communities. Yet communication research tends focus on national or cross-national levels, often em...

Urbanisation patterns in the United States have taken some unlikely turns over the past quarter of a century. After following fairly predictable trends in the 1950s and 1960s towards increased urban growth and westward movement, the nation experienced a 1970s 'counter-urbanisation' similar to that which occurred in many other developed countries (Champion, 1989; 1992). In the US, counter-urbani...