BACKGROUND Although outcomes among people with schizophrenia differ by social context, this has rarely been examined across rural v. urban settings. For individuals with schizophrenia, employment is widely recognised as a critical ingredient of social integration. AIMS To compare employment for people with schizophrenia in rural v. urban settings in China. METHOD In a large community-based ...

This review examines existing research on the issues raised by the presence of internally displaced people (IDPs) in an urban context such as that of Nairobi, Kenya. The review explores historical and present patterns of displacement in the broader context of Nairobi’s urbanisation processes. It aims to build on the current understanding of how IDPs live in the urban environment and relate with...

INTRODUCTION Respiratory illness is a leading cause of death worldwide, with rates that will continue to escalate into the foreseeable future. Rural residents have an increased risk of dying from some forms of respiratory disease, although little is known about the healthcare utilization or location of death for persons with advanced respiratory illness in rural settings. The purpose of this st...

BACKGROUND China had 236 million internal migrants in 2012 and the majority of them migrated from rural to urban areas. The research based on medical and epidemical records found that the migrants had worse health than the urban residents, but the household and working place investigations reported better health status. The sick or unhealthy migrants are likely to return to their hometowns, whi...

OBJECTIVES To determine the extent of all forms of tobacco usage in adult Bangladeshis in relation to gender and locality. METHODS Three annual urban and rural cross-sectional surveys were carried out between 2001 and 2003 involving a total of 35,446 adults, of whom 54.3% were female and 51.0% were rural dwellers. Data were collected through interview using a structured questionnaire. RESUL...

the goals of sustainable development. The transformation of land and ecological processes resulting from development is a driving force behind the lost ecological services that concern the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. A quick glance at just a few global trends suggests why urbanization has quickly become an issue in need of deeper understanding. Whereas less than 30 percent of the global po...

Rural sports is one of important part in Chinese sports, it affects Chinese sports overall development at every turn. In current stage, Chinese rural sports have many problems, insufficient investment, and imperfect structure, non-deepen sports awareness and others are factors restrict its development, so research on rural sports optimization countermeasures has become presently Chinese rural s...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY This study examines urban-rural differences in end-of-life (EOL) quality of care provided to nursing home (NH) residents. DATA AND METHODS We constructed 3 risk-adjusted EOL quality measures (QMs) for long-term decedent residents: in-hospital death, hospice referral before death, and presence of severe pain. We used CY2005-2007 100% Minimum Data Set, Medicare beneficiary ...

This study aimed to describe the socio-demographic variables and to compare the morbidities and the quality of life (QoL) of elderly individuals with diabetes mellitus (DM) residing in urban and rural areas. The sample consisted of 271 elderly individuals from urban areas and 104 from rural areas with self-reported DM. A descriptive analysis was used, and in the location comparison, an age adju...

Like other major cities, Brisbane (Australia) has adopted policies to increase residential densities to meet the liveability goal of decreasing car dependence. This objective hinges on urban neighbourhoods being amenity-rich spaces, reducing the need for residents to leave their neighbourhood for everyday living. While older people are attracted to urban settings, there has been little empirica...