Sustaining access to healthcare in a resourcepoor setting is a key challenge in achieving global health.1 While there exist huge differences in healthcare systems between developing and developed countries, shortages of doctors and other health professionals in rural and remote areas are universal issues.2 In rural areas, both patient-specific and extrinsic factors affect access to healthcare.3...

During investigation into opisthorchiasis and other food-borne helminthiases carried out in Laos, inhabitants of the village of Ban Nanin in central Laos were coprologically examined. Results of this examination have already been published by some of us (Pholsena et aI, 1991). The authors designated all small fluke eggs found in stool samples as Opisthorchis viverrini. However, the subsequent e...

The objective of the project was to create 3D visualization of an extinct village and its evaluation using eye-tracking. As an area of interest, the extinct village of Čistá was selected. The village was located in Karlovy Vary Region in the Czech Republic and was destroyed in 1948. The village was destroyed to primarily to establish a military training area. Secondly, it was destroyed to creat...

Kerala state at the Southern tip of India leads the country in many parameters of human development. Kerala is densely populated and is an almost continuous corridor of towns and villages. Arrikode is a small village in the Malapurram district of Kerala state. Malapurram is populated mainly by Muslims. The village is situated at the district boundary with neighbouring Kozhikode. After finishing...

Introduction Engaging the community in planning and monitoring of health service delivery is central to enhancing the availability, accessibility, quality, and use of the public health system. The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has positioned community ownership as central to its strategy, primarily through the Village Health and Sanitation Committee (VHSC). The VHSCs are village-level bo...

A simple and practicable algorithm for constructing stratum boundaries in such a way that the coefficients of variation are equal in each stratum is derived for positively skewed populations. The new algorithm is shown to compare favourably with the cumulative root frequency method (Dalenius and Hodges 1957) and the Lavallée and Hidiroglou (1988) approximation method for estimating the optimum ...

In “Representations without Rules, Connectionism and the Syntactic Argument”, Kenneth Aizawa argues against the view that connectionist nets can be understood as processing representations without the use of representation-level rules, and he provides a positive characterization of how to interpret connectionist nets as following representation-level rules. He takes Terry Horgan and John Tienso...

BACKGROUND The aging population, rapid urbanization, and epidemiology transition in China call for the improvement and adaptation of the health workforce, especially in underserved rural areas. The aging of village doctors (the former "barefoot doctors") who have served the rural residents for many decades has become a warning signal for the human resources for health in China. This study aims ...