This article comes out of many discussions I have had lately with Kansans as well as other colleagues around the country about the applicability of implementing the evidence-based practice of supported employment in rural and frontier areas. There are special challenges in rural areas, but so are there special challenges in urban areas. However, there appears to be some misconceptions regarding...

Rural America’s real estate market has remained strong during the recession. While there is no comprehensive statistic to summarize the overall market for rural real estate, a variety of indicators indicate healthy demand. Farmland values rose throughout the year. Rural housing activity remained robust in the face of an economic downturn. Suburban growth and the increasing use of rural areas as...

Abstract Background The Kentucky Income Reinvestment Program (KIRP) is a statewide reinvestment of income generated by the Ryan White HIV/AIDS (RWHAP) AIDS Drug Assistance Program, which provides comprehensive early intervention services targeting those at highest risk for HIV infection. objective this study was to compare screening rates in persons who inject drugs (PWID) Syringe Service Progr...

INTRODUCTION Physician shortages in rural areas remain severe but may be ameliorated by recent expansions in medical school class sizes. Expanding student exposure to rural medicine by increasing the amount of prolonged clinical experiences in rural areas may increase the likelihood of students pursuing a career in rural medicine. This research sought to investigate the perspective of rural phy...

nowadays the growth of deserts is one the most important problems in iran. this phenomenon has many reasons such as growth of population, global changes in the climates and many undesirable consequences such as the erosion of agricultural soils and immigration of rural people to urban regions mainly to the capital of iran, tehran. isfahan province is one of the semi-arid and desert regions in t...

The crux of this paper is to examine rural development programme implementation in developing countries with China and India as case studies. The paper examines various strategies adopted by these countries in the implementation of rural development policies and programmes. The study adopts desk research as its methodological orientation. The result of the analysis reveals that the Chinese and ...

OBJECTIVES Understanding recent trends in cigarette smoking among adolescents is important in order to develop strategies to prevent cigarette smoking. The aim of this study was to compare recent trends in cigarette smoking for adolescents living in rural areas, small towns and metropolitan cities in Korea. METHODS The raw data from the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey (KYRBWS) from...

With the reforms of the Chinese economy, an enormous new moving population of rural-urban migrants is transforming the rural and urban labor force. Expected rural-urban income differences are used instead of absolute income diversity, namely the migrant is motivated by predictable income streams over time rather than by current earnings. Also, the employment opportunity is not exclusive determi...