With the ever-deepening economic reform and international trend of ICT application in education, the Chinese government is strengthening its basic education curriculum reform and actively facilitating the application of ICT in education. Given the achievement gap of ICT infrastructure and its application in middle and primary schools between urban and rural areas, a divide exists between the ne...

The rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT) provides an opportunity to improve the quality of patient life. The availability of sustainable telecardiology system in Malaysia is essential to overcome shortage of cardiology services in rural area. This paper elaborates the framework including requirements of telecardiology technology to meet the current condition of te...

the rural tourism as the most popular forms of tourism can be regarded as a policy to reduce the problems of rural areas. rural tourism, is a risk factor for the development of rural areas, including most the effects of its population stable, solve unemployment, reduced migration and more. this study aimed to detection effects of tourism in myshkhas rural center development in ilam province. a ...

We examined the relationship between race-specific rural mortality and the health infrastructure of rural counties in light of America's recent emergence of a rural mortality penalty. Using the Compressed Mortality File from National Center for Health Statistics (2008-2012) and county-level demographic, socioeconomic, and health care indicators from the Area Health Resource File and the US Cens...

During the last decade, pilot studies and focused projects have established the efficacy of the Internet in developing nations;1 however, connectivity remains uncommon and it is generally slow and unreliable.2 The developing nations are too poor to attract sufficient capital to build modern Internet infrastructure.3 The activity of the past decade has had positive results. All governments are n...

This article presents a study identifying benefits and challenges of a novel hospital-to-hospital information technology (IT) outsourcing partnership (HHP). The partnership is an innovative response to the problem that many smaller, rural hospitals face: to modernize their IT infrastructure in spite of a severe shortage of resources. The investigators studied three rural hospitals that outsourc...

This research uses the production function theoretical framework and an extensive, exchangelevel database on telephone usage and infrastructure, employment and population, to clarify the relationships between rural economic activities and telecommunications. Relationships are estimated through regression analysis, linking telephone usage, measured in aggregate conversation seconds, by each of e...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Immunization coverage in India is far from complete with a disproportionately large number of rural children not being immunized. We carried out this study to examine the role of health infrastructure and community health workers in expanding immunization coverage in rural India. METHODS The sample consisted of 43,416 children aged 2-35 months residing in rural India fr...

The rural tourism as the most popular forms of tourism can be regarded as a policy to reduce the problems of rural areas. Rural tourism, is a risk factor for the development of rural areas, including most the effects of its population stable, solve unemployment, reduced migration and more. This study aimed to detection effects of tourism in Myshkhas Rural Center development in Ilam Province. A ...