Time geography approach provides quantifiable measures in the form of Time-space prisms which are used for analyzing individual activity spaces resulting from household activity-travel decisions. In the recent concerns to improve accessibility of rural households in developing countries, the need to develop a framework to study economics of household decision-making in the light of their timesp...

If a pediatric abdominal mass is not organomegaly or colonic stool, narrowing the diagnostic possibilities may be difficult, especially in resource-poor areas where ancillary tests and treatment options may be limited. A 2-year-old girl was brought to the rural Kintampo Municipal Hospital in Ghana with a freely moveable, non-tender abdominal mass. A huge mesenteric dermoid cyst was surgically r...

Here, we present the findings of our field study conducted on 39 breast cancer patients in rural Bangladesh. Lack of motivation to go to health centers on patients’ side due to financial, social and transportation hazards result in inadequate data for proper assessment. In this scenario a mobile phone based remote symptom monitoring system (RSMS) with inspirational videos can serve the purpose ...

Historically, the number of public school districts in the United States has decreased despite a dramatic increase in the number of students enrolled. Although public school district consolidation has impacted districts of all sizes, since the late 1930’s smaller rural districts facing dwindling community resources have merged or consolidated with each other, resulting in fewer school districts...

Redistributive objectives influence the optimal provision of a pure public good— such as air quality— only if costless transfers are not available. In an urban program, the emphasis in the control strategy will shift somewhat toward goods and services consumed predominantly by the wealthier, such as transportation services, vehicles and fuels. If instruments affect rural areas as well, optimal ...

Private schools serve a significant section of the Indian student population in the K-12 market. This share is likely to increase with the country's growth as households-both rich and poor clamor for quality education. This paper seeks to understand the determinants of schooling (public and private) in rural India. We present and estimate a discretecontinuous model of household school choice an...

OBJECTIVE To assess the geographic distribution of healthy food retailers in Washington State and estimate the number of Washington State residents with restricted availability of healthy food. METHODS Street network service areas were drawn around Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infant, and Children retailers for multiple drive times and walking distances in urban and rural...

The purpose of this review is to address the global incidence and management of snakebite envenomation and to describe the clinical characteristics and pathogenesis of envenomation by species of the family Viperidae, genera Bothrops and Crotalus, the most common venomous snakes in Brazil. We focus on the pathogenesis of the acute renal failure induced by these snakes. Envenomation after snakebi...

a survey on the detection of scalp ringworm, its prevalence and etiological agents, was carried out in 12 different localities in the bandar abbas area, southern iran, in february 1970. two thousand one hundred fifty-three subjects consisting of 1,275 school children from 3 primary schools and one secondary school in the town and 689 rural school children from 6 different villages, together wit...