The New South Wales Department of Health (NSW Health) wishes to make appropriate use of casemix data as inputs to the determination of funding levels for small rural hospitals. However, other factors such as hospital size and degree of isolation might need to be taken into account. The study reported here involved correlation of actual expenditures with those predicted by use of a casemix model...

Beginning with a brief overview of national health care quality improvement efforts, this article describes national initiatives to improve the quality of care and patient safety, along with the challenges of measuring quality of care in rural settings. Next, the article analyzes the performance of rural Minnesota hospitals in the Hospital Compare and Leapfrog initiatives and compares the resul...

nigeria represents one of the paradoxes of development in which case the nation is rich but her people are poor. this study examines the rate of poverty among rural households in south western, nigeria. a random multistage sampling was employed for the study. ekiti and osun states were randomly selected from the six states in south-western nigeria. this was followed by random selection of two l...

In Lithuania, as in the most societies around the world, the Internet and other information communication technologies (ICT) are mainly used by young, educated, well paid and urban consumers. Elderly, low-educated, low-paid and rural residents are among those who use the Internet the least. In our post-modern network society they are at the risk of social exclusion. This paper is aimed at the a...

objective: iran society also has been changing in different social, cultural, economical etc dimensions. rural society of iran, because of the achievement to new technological products, and communicative facilities is shifting from traditional period to a modern one. this study deals with this transmission on the generation viewpoint, in rural society of iran. method: in this paper, the changes...

the backwardness of the countryside is most important issues of developing countries. the result of this study, based on descriptive - analysis studies, shows that revive traditional arts and crafts with much charm with planning and organizing on development stimulus projects, can direct influence on the villager’s empowerment. of course, the existence of such attractions, itself, without provi...

this study focuses on the level of suffering from social problems and tests the moderator role of community size in relation with suffering from social problems. our study was conducted in gharbia governorate, egypt. two contrasting villages were chosen as the highest and lowest on human development index (hdi). a purposive sample of inhabitants in the age category 18-40 years was chosen. sampl...