This article discusses the danger of a growing digital divide between rural and other areas. It presents broadband as increasingly necessary for the delivery of information, health, education, business, social security, public and leisure services. Access to broadband has become vital for rural communities to participate in a progressively digital economy and to overcome problems of physical an...

Assessment of progress towards sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in China requires the consideration of changes in separate health and family planning systems, as well as consideration of the transition from a command economy to a socialist market economy, led by a highly centralised political system, in the last three decades. Reform of the health system in the 1980s and 1990s encouraged ma...

Volume 2, Issue 2 A financially stable hospital is crucial to a community’s health as well as its economy, especially in rural settings. Local hospitals not only provide residents with essential health care services, they are also a major employer and help fuel the local economy. Today, however, many of this country’s 1,600 small rural hospitals struggle to maintain financial stability and resp...

The rural economy in modern conditions of the country’s food security doctrine and import substitution policy is one main directions socio-economic development any society. problems sustainable increase growth indicators subjects agrarian business are particularly interesting as a fundamental direction that ensures socioeconomic stability areas. paper identifies systemic issues restrain impleme...

Concern among state legislators about rural development and rural land use is not new. In many states, agriculture remains an important feature of the economic, cultural, and political landscape. As rural incomes, populations, and prosperity have declined, states have adopted a variety of policies in response. Rural land and development policies in most states, however, are often more symbolic ...