Nancy Schoenberg
125 College of Medicine
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Marion Pearsall Endowed Associate Professor
Depts. Of Behavioral Science, Anthropology, Medicine
Sanders-Brown Center on Aging
University of Kentucky
Tel: (859) 323-8175
Email: nesch@uky.edu
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Dr. Schoenberg’s research interests address the long-term health and care needs of middle aged and older adults particularly those populations that suffer the greatest health inequities. Dr. Schoenberg, a medical anthropologist and gerontologist, maintains research interests in explanatory models of chronic diseases and their prevention and management, self-care decision-making and formal health care use, and qualitative and complementary methodology. Her research projects include a study of lifestyle management of rural women with diabetes and coronary heart disease; an investigation of the determinants of adherence to dietary recommendations among African-American elders with hypertension; ethnographic approaches toward cardiac decision-making; survey research into the characteristics associated with elders at risk of inadequate nutritional intake; and in-depth interviews on determinants of cancer screening. Throughout Dr. Schoenberg's work, there is an emphasis on the cultural context of health decisions and community-based participatory approaches. Recently, Dr. Schoenberg has begun to focus on the application of basic science findings toward the administration of interventions. Currently, Dr. Schoenberg is involved in several intervention projects to encourage cancer screening in the rural underserved region of Appalachia. |
