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Health Needs Assessment of Five Pennsylvania Plain Populations

by
Kirk Miller
1,*,
Berwood Yost
2,
Christina Abbott
3,
Scottie Thompson Buckland
2,
Emily Dlugi
4,
Zachary Adams
5,
Varun Rajagopalan
6,
Meryl Schulman
7,
Kimberly Hilfrank
8 and
Mara A. Cohen
1
1
Department of Biology, Franklin & Marshall College, 415 Harrisburg Ave., Lancaster, PA 17603, USA
2
Floyd Institute Center for Opinion Research, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17603, USA
3
Department of Psychology, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17603, USA
4
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
5
U.S. News & World Report, Washington, DC 20007, USA
6
Ernst and Young Advisory Services, New York, NY 10036, USA
7
Center for Health Care Strategies, Trenton, NJ 08619, USA
8
School of Public Health, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16(13), 2378; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16132378
Received: 13 June 2019 / Revised: 1 July 2019 / Accepted: 2 July 2019 / Published: 4 July 2019
(This article belongs to the Section Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion)
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Abstract

We performed a health needs assessment for five Plain communities in Pennsylvania from a random sample of households, comparing them to the general population of Pennsylvania adults. Plain respondents were more likely to drink well water, as likely to eat fruit and vegetables and much more likely to drink raw milk and be exposed to agricultural chemicals. Plain respondents were less likely to receive screening exams compared to the general population and there was variation from settlement to settlement in whether respondents had a regular doctor, whether they received preventive screenings or had their children vaccinated, with Mifflin County Amish generally lowest in these and Plain Mennonites highest. Plain respondents reported good physical and mental health compared to the general population but Groffdale Mennonite respondents had a high proportion of diagnoses of depression and were more likely to be receiving treatment for a mental health condition. Most Plain respondents would want a spouse tested for genetic disease with Mifflin County Amish least in favor of these tests. Despite their geographic and genetic isolation, the health of Plain communities in Pennsylvania is similar to that of other adults in the state. View Full-Text
Keywords: Amish; Old Order Mennonite; health needs; household survey Amish; Old Order Mennonite; health needs; household survey
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Miller, K.; Yost, B.; Abbott, C.; Thompson Buckland, S.; Dlugi, E.; Adams, Z.; Rajagopalan, V.; Schulman, M.; Hilfrank, K.; Cohen, M.A. Health Needs Assessment of Five Pennsylvania Plain Populations. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 2378. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16132378

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Miller K, Yost B, Abbott C, Thompson Buckland S, Dlugi E, Adams Z, Rajagopalan V, Schulman M, Hilfrank K, Cohen MA. Health Needs Assessment of Five Pennsylvania Plain Populations. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16(13):2378. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16132378

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Miller, Kirk, Berwood Yost, Christina Abbott, Scottie Thompson Buckland, Emily Dlugi, Zachary Adams, Varun Rajagopalan, Meryl Schulman, Kimberly Hilfrank, and Mara A. Cohen. 2019. "Health Needs Assessment of Five Pennsylvania Plain Populations" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 13: 2378. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16132378

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