Introduction Psychology workforce shortages in geographically rural or remote contexts have highlighted the need to understand supervisory experiences of psychologists practising these locations, and models supervision employed support their practice improve client safety. Objective To review professional locations. Design Using Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for mixed-methods systematic r...

BACKGROUND General surgeons form a crucial component of the medical workforce in rural areas of the United States. Any decline in their numbers could have profound effects on access to adequate health care in such areas. HYPOTHESIS We hypothesize that the rural areas of the United States are relatively undersupplied with general surgeons. DESIGN AND SETTING The American Medical Association'...

OBJECTIVE Urbanization is an important determinant of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. To determine location-based differences in CVD risk factors in India we performed studies among women in rural, urban-poor and urban middle-class locations. METHODS Population-based cross-sectional studies in rural, urban-poor, and urban-middle class women (35-70 y) were performed at multiple sites. We ev...

BACKGROUND Fecal calprotectin (FC) is an established simple biomarker of gut inflammation. To examine a possible relationship between linear growth and gut inflammation, we compared fecal calprotectin levels in 6 month old infants from poor rural vs affluent urban families. METHODS The project was a cross-sectional comparison of FC from rural and urban populations in China. The relationship b...

BACKGROUND Rural and urban differences in the effects of care-giving are not well documented. This paper reports data on 122 carers for people with stroke or dementia living in rural and urban settings in Wales. METHOD Carers completed a postal questionnaire, including the SF-12v2 Health Survey. Definitions of rural and urban were based on the Urban/Rural Indicator from the Office of National...

CONTEXT This article explores the relevance of the body of military psychology knowledge to the management and support of those living and working in rural/remote industries and locations, particularly within Australia. ISSUES For those who live and work in rural/remote settings, there are social, occupational, health and environmental challenges. Some of these are shared with families and in...

In modern society, even if rural people are no longer strangers to computer, the problems concerning the service efficiency of Computer in rural areas and the Computer use education for peasants also arise accordingly. By combining macro-level sampling questionnaire survey and micro-level observational interview with regular evaluation, this study places the interviewees from rural areas in the...