Millions of people in our country went without a paycheck last month. My partners and I were among them. However, unlike the majority, who received no paycheck due to unemployment, we are busy family physicians in a rural private practice. Ours is not a story of insurance denials or inadequate Medicare reimbursement. Rather, it is a tale of unfortunate circumstances both within and outside our ...

The bulk of research on labour market conditions in Pakistan has concentrated on the economic activity rate, the number of employed persons or the unemployment rate at a particular point in time (Nasir, 2001). These stock measures of labour market situation are useful from a policy viewpoint as they give a broad indication of the dimension of the problem. For instance, the recent labour force s...

with respect to many problems in rural areas such as poverty, inequality, migration, vulnerability and unemployment, the rural entrepreneurship is of great importance. doubtless entrepreneurship can increase the level of employment and income and play an important role for sustainable development in rural areas. in this article, through a behavioral approach and based on a procedural model indi...

The objective of the paper is to analyses premises development e-commerce and other various online services possible be provided by rural people. As far as our former researches show that community concerned about its environment do best preserve nature cultural heritage, but lack resources make obstacles stop some natural problems. Moreover, people suffer from unemployment, so their priority f...

BACKGROUND There are many factors underlying trends in prescribing levels in England. AIM This study set out to examine prescribing trends and their relationship with three measures of morbidity. METHOD A study was undertaken examining the interrelations between basic prescribing parameters for the 90 family health services authorities in England for the year 1 April 1989 to 31 March 1990. ...

Employment is one of the bread-and –butter issues requiring urgent attention and careful handling. With the accelerating of the urbanization, a large number of surplus labors have appeared in rural areas of China. At the same time, in the course of the deepening reform of state-owned enterprises, there are more and more laid-off workers, so the problem of unemployment sticks out. In this paper,...

This paper analyses the determinants of happiness in seven Eastern European transition countries during the early phase of economic transition. The analysis of representative survey data in an ordered logit model shows that those core socio-demographic and economic variables known to be relevant from studies on the US and Western European countries have a similar impact on happiness in Eastern ...

The village fund allocation is a policy strategy of the government Indonesia for development in rural areas. Each has funds sourced from State Revenue and Expenditure Budget. uniqueness this community’s involvement determining expenditure funds. Therefore, program carried out line with needs community. Rural areas generally rely on agriculture, which lower productivity than other sectors, so th...

BACKGROUND The Second China National Sample Survey on Disability in 2006 showed that the participation rate of disabled Chinese rural individuals in social medical insurance participation was less than 30%. However, there has been limited number of studies on the influencing factors, especially contextual factors, affecting their participation in social medical insurance. Therefore, this study ...