Rust College Health Literacy Campaign
Rust College and The University of Mississippi Medical Center
Rust College and The University of Mississippi Medical Center 
Families First Resource Center
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Project Objectives:
>To improve the quality of health and healthcare for minorities and rural disadvantaged in Mississippi.
>To promote health literacy initiative including health fairs, health conferences, and health screening for local residents.
>To encourage student participation in health literacy campaign, health career interest, and shadowing health professionals in health workshop presentations.
Click the following links for Alliance Charitable Foundation Healthy Living Series:
I. Cardiovascular Disease
II. Marshall County Public Health Statistics
III. State of the Child
IV. State of the Child-2
Click here to take
The PRE-TEST Health Survey:000
Click here to take
The POST-TEST Health Survey:000-2
Did You Know That...
>Mississippians, particularly minorities, have some of the poorest health outcomes in the nation?>In 1996, the cardiovascular disease death rate among African-Americans in the state was 37 percent higher than in whites and was 60 percent higher than the national average?
>African-Americans account for 75 percent of the state’s reported new AIDS cases?
>Mississippi has the nation’s highest percentage of African-Americans, with 37 percent?
>Infant mortality rates among minorities in some areas of Mississippi are three times higher than the national average?
>Almost one-fourth of the state’s population between the ages of 18-64 doesn’t have health insurance?
>Sixty-two of the state’s 82 counties are designated as medically underservedcommunities?
>Fifty-one percent of the state’s 2.9 million people live in rural areas. Mississippi is the fourth-largest rural state in the nation?
HEALTHY START - A program for Pregnant Teens/Single Mothers (up to age 21) & Teen Fathers. {Sponsored by: Rust College Families First Resource Center/Social Work Department & Mississippi Institute for Improvement of Geographic Minority Health and Health Disparities.}
CLICK THE LINKS BELOW FOR POWERPOINT ON:
HEALTHY START-TEEN PREGNANCY- part1
HEALTHY START-TEEN PREGNANCY- part2
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES- part1
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES- part2
Project Director:
Dr. Gemma D. Beckley
Chair, Department of Social Work
Rust College, Holly Springs, MS 38635
662-252-8000 ext. 4360
gbeckley@rustcollege.edu