Biographical Sketch

Dr. Susan Dollar is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. She earned her M.S.W. in 1990 from the University of Missouri in Columbia and was awarded her Ph.D. in Social Work from Tulane University in 1998. While in Louisiana, she worked for the Southeast Louisiana Area Health Education Center on a number of rural health-related projects. Dr. Dollar’s current research interests include rural mental health, HIV prevention among high-risk populations, and Hispanic health issues.

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Social and Health Implications

Suggestions for interventions and how they relate to empowerment