نتایج جستجو برای: rural communities

تعداد نتایج: 247110  

2014
Iman S. Sapru Kelsey Cassidy Shannon L. Sibbald

Background. Rural residents seeking health care face barriers due to a shortage of healthcare professionals and the travel distance required to obtain medical services. This can lead to potentially harmful health outcomes, particularly when these citizens are unable to access specialized medical care. Few studies have specifically evaluated rural residents’ ability to access medical specialists...

2015
Larissa Calancie Jennifer Leeman Stephanie B. Jilcott Pitts Laura Kettel Khan Sheila Fleischhacker Kelly R. Evenson Michelle Schreiner Carmen Byker Clint Owens Jared McGuirt Ellen Barnidge Wesley Dean Donna Johnson Jane Kolodinsky Emily Piltch Courtney Pinard Emilee Quinn Lauren Whetstone Alice Ammerman

INTRODUCTION Residents of rural communities in the United States are at higher risk for obesity than their urban and suburban counterparts. Policy and environmental-change strategies supporting healthier dietary intake can prevent obesity and promote health equity. Evidence in support of these strategies is based largely on urban and suburban studies; little is known about use of these strategi...

2017
Poonam G. Daswani Manasi S. Gholkar Tannaz J. Birdi

The rural population in India faces a number of health problems and often has to rely on local remedies. Psidium guajava Linn. (guava), a tropical plant which is used as food and medicine can be used by rural communities due to its several medicinal properties. A literature search was undertaken to gauge the rural health scenario in India and compile the available literature on guava so as to r...

2009

• People who live in rural and remote communities in Australia are more likely to be • Indigenous, particularly in the more remote areas. • Rural populations tend to have more children but fewer young adults. • More remote communities, many with significant Indigenous populations and a focus on the mining industry, tend to have more children, more people of working age (especially males) and fe...

2006
Deborah M. Tootle

For the past two decades, distressed rural communities throughout the United States have been turning to prisons as a rural development strategy. In many cases, communities have competed fiercely for correctional facilities and have provided costly incentives in the way of tax abatements and infrastructure development. As financially strapped local governments are finding it difficult to fund l...

2006
Peter O. Ogunjuyigbe

This study demonstrates that marital fertility varies according to mode of mate selection among the Yorubas. Data for the study were obtained from a survey conducted in two rural communities in Osun State, Nigeria. The study reveals that (i) the involvement of family in choice of partner is declining in the rural communities just as it is happening among the Yorubas in the urban areas (ii) the ...

Journal: :تحقیقات جغرافیایی 0
مهدی جوانشیری فردوسی مشهد فرهاد عزیزپور خوارزمی علی اکبر عنابستانی فردوسی مشهد

selecting sites for various uses is one of the final stages in land use planning. given the fact that the ‎favorable establishment of uses, which is influenced by a variety of factors, is the main reason that ‎helps lower the costs, the site selection of land uses in rural development plans should be able to ‎maintain its favorable position over time with the minimum changes so as to ensu...

Journal: :MIS Quarterly 2016
Jie-Mein Goh Guodong Gao Ritu Agarwal

The striking growth of online communities in recent years has sparked significant interest in understanding and quantifying benefits of participation. While research has begun to document the economic outcomes associated with online communities, quantifying the social value created in these collectives has been largely overlooked. This study proposes that online health communities create social...

2018
Joy Ebonwu Alexandra Mumbauer Margot Uys Milton L Wainberg Andrew Medina-Marino

OBJECTIVE To investigate and compare determinates for delayed first presentation to antenatal care (ANC) services. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted amongst pregnant women attending their first ANC visit in rural Capricorn District and peri-urban Tlokwe sub-district communities in South Africa. Data collection included questionnaires and medical record abstraction. Bivariate and m...

Journal: :Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie 2005
Andrea Berntson Elliot Goldner John Leverette Pippa Moss Mark Tapper Brian Hodges

R ural or remote communities may be ideal locations to train residents in general psychiatry. In addition, evidence from the rural medical education literature suggests that developing educational experiences in these communities may also improve recruitment and retention. University departments of psychiatry, in partnership with national organizations and underserved communities themselves, ar...

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