Letteratura scientifica selezionata sul tema "Mississippi-Alabama Fair"

Abstract The United States imported $1.01 billion in lamb and goat meat in 2018, which was 5.94% higher than in 2017. However, local sheep and goat farmers are facing challenges for getting fair prices for their animals. The objective of this study was to evaluate the market price of lamb and goat meat in the Southeast United States. The surveys were introduced to 15 cities of Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and Tennessee. The price for lamb and goat meat was collected for three years (2017–2019). Of the 360 price observations (n = 360) collected from these cities, 290 were for lamb and 70 for goat meat. The price consisted of 27 and 12 different types of lamb and goat meat, respectively, from the selected retail and ethnic stores. Data were analyzed for descriptive statistics. The mean price for lamb ranged from $50.58/kg for rack lamb to $10.98/kg for stew bone. Similarly, the most expensive goat meat type was leg stew ($26.38/kg), followed by the whole goat leg ($24.18/kg), and the regular meat was the least expensive ($10.32/kg). The mean price of lamb and goat meat varied as per the type of meat in each state and city. The majority of stores predominantly sold imported lamb and goat meat from Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Mexico, China, and Uruguay. The study revealed that the different types of lamb and goat meatare selling for good prices, thereby indicating a promising market for the domestic lamb and goat meat in the Southeast.

Background: The voice of the community is powerful in suggesting strategies for engaging in research. Members of Oktibbeha and Panola County, Mississippi Advisory Boards affiliated with the Risks Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal (RURAL) Study suggested that a health fair would spread the word throughout their communities about participating in the Study. The objective is to tell the story of how a County-wide community health fair can encourage those who attend to consider participating or not participating in the RURAL Study. The RURAL Study is an observational, population-based study focusing on heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders in 10 rural counties in four southern states: Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi. Methods: To engage the communities with the RURAL Study, Health Fairs were implemented in Panola and Oktibbeha Counties in Mississippi. Following the Health Fairs, Investigators conducted focus group interviews with four groups of attendees in each County to explore the success of the Health Fair and the attendees’ willingness to participate or not participate in the RURAL Study. Focus group interviewees were RURAL Study Community Advisory Board (CAB) members, local community engagement consultants, men, and participants at-large. Investigators conducted focus group interviews following the June 11, 2022, Oktibbeha County Community Health Fair and following the Panola County Community Health Fair held on April 29, 2023. Interviews were digitally recorded and transcribed. The transcripts were analyzed using thematic analysis. Results: Thirty-two individuals were interviewed representing Oktibbeha (17) and Panola (15) counties. Two main themes arose from the focus group interviews: giving and gathering information/getting the word out and enlightened awareness of requirements for and benefits of participation. Giving and gathering information/getting the word out included dissemination of information through promotional material, word of mouth, social media, flyers to churches, and presentations by the RURAL Study Principal Investigator. Attendees could gather information and be assisted in signing up to be a participant. Enlightened awareness of the requirements for and the benefits of participation included the realization that participation in the RURAL Study provides free screening, allows participants to keep up with their health, helps the individual participant and his/her kids, and benefits the community. Health Fair attendees who didn’t know that they could participate learned that they could. Conclusions: Providing detailed information through many channels and engaging the community can help to promote interest in a research study. A County Community Health Fair served as a community engagement strategy to encourage attendees to consider participating in the RURAL Study.

Introduction: Cholesterol screening at health fairs in underserved urban communities is becoming common, though little evidence guides these efforts. We sought to describe the proportion of patients identified with elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL) and reduced high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) at such fairs and the changes in LDL and HDL over time for returning patients. We hypothesized that patients would reduce their LDL in association with weight loss. Methods: DOCS is a medical student run service organization providing free screening services, health education, and when indicated referrals to low cost clinics. We reviewed the records of new patients receiving cholesterol screening at an annual DOCS fair in an underserved urban community in South Florida (Little Haiti, Hialeah, and Pompano Beach) in 2007 and any future visits. Results: In 2007, 223 new patients received cholesterol screening, of whom 111 (50%) were 45 to 64 yrs old, 136 (61%) Hispanic, 50 (22%) Haitian, and 142 (80%) uninsured. Of the 221 new patients, 102 (46%) had an LDL above 129 mg/dL (59 from 130-159, 30 from 160−189, and 13 >189) and 82 (37%) had an HDL below 40 mg/dL for males or 50 for females. An LDL above 129 mg/dL was common across all ages, sexes, and BMIs ( Figure ) and not associated with age (Spearman’s rho=.08, P=.22), BMI (rho=.08, P=.27), or sex (P=.38). Among patients with an LDL above 129 mg/dL, 14 (14%) returned for a screening in 2008 or 2009 and 9 (64%) reduced their LDL by at least 20 mg/dL (6 by >30) though only 2 (14%) increased HDL by at least 5 mg/dL. LDL and BMI reductions were not associated (rho = .10, P=.77). Conclusions: Cholesterol screening at fairs in underserved urban communities identified patients with elevated LDL and reduced HDL across all ages, sexes, and BMIs. While few patients returned to a subsequent fair, most who did lowered their LDL substantially without a change in BMI or HDL. This may suggest that referrals to low cost clinics and pharmacotherapy play an important role in the potential of fairs to reduce LDL. Funding(This research has received full or partial funding support from the American Heart Association, Greater Southeast Affiliate (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Puerto Rico&Tennessee)

Abstract In the South, the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) proved particularly ineffectual in bringing about change. White Southerners had created a system of racial apartheid designed to legally enshrine social, legal, and economic discrimination against its Black population. FDR’s Executive Order 8802, which created the FEPC, endorsed nondiscrimination but provided few mechanisms to enforce it. The South had Black citizens who pressed for change, although challenging White supremacy in the region entailed personal risks. Most employers in the Deep South maintained discriminatory employment practices throughout the war. This chapter looks closely at three examples of how employers in the Deep South that made major contributions to war production managed to evade the requirements of Executive Order 8802 and limit Black industrial employment in the region: the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company in Mobile, Alabama; the Bell Bomber Plant in Marietta, Georgia; and the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

Abstract Church was a graduate student at Atlanta University; he was writing his Master’s thesis on some aspect of romantic poetry. Though young, he had taught in three Southern states: North Carolina, Mississippi, and Alabama. He believed that his experiences would make a good book, and this is the story as he told it. His first teaching job was in a North Carolina community of about six or seven hundred people. It was in tobacco and cotton country, not really near anywhere, well the nearest place that might be known was Hamlet on the Seaboard. There were more whites there than Negroes. The cracker class was numerous and ignorant; the whites of power treated them as badly as they did Negroes. There was a beautiful school for whites in the community. The Negro school, though brick, was only fair: there were no lights, the toilets were open earth, and a pump furnished the water. In the community itself only two Negroes had electric lights, and there were no such things as bathtubs or commodes. There was no Negro doctor, nothing like that, and no Negroes of any wealth. The one educated Negro there was an ex-policeman from Chicago, who came back to retire. As far as the morals of the Negro community were concerned, the people did anything they wanted to do, anything they were big enough to do.