The difficulties of meeting the medical and psychological needs of individuals living in rural areas have long been recognized. In Pre-Colonial days, a network of native healers attempted to meet the needs of rural populations, and when the Colonists arrived from England, the first formally trained physicians arrived in America as well. As the colonists moved westward, physicians followed, faci...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To assess and compare the tobacco use prevalence; to understand and compare attitudes and knowledge related to tobacco use and its health impact among urban and rural students; and to assess urban and rural disparity in the use of tobacco among 12 and 15-year-old adolescents in the urban and rural schools in Chhattisgarh, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional stud...

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...

This study was designed to investigate if the working memory profiles of children living in rural poverty are distinct from the working memory profiles of children living in urban poverty. Verbal and visuospatial working memory tasks were administered to sixth-grade students living in low-income rural, low-income urban, high-income rural, and high-income urban developmental contexts. Both low-i...

BACKGROUND Studies on stunting in children have largely focused on the underfive, establishing it as a strong predictor of mortality in these children. Few studies have documented the prevalence or determinants of stunting among school children in southwestern Nigeria. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence and predictors of stunting among selected primary school children in rural...

BACKGROUND A large proportion of the 340,000 HIV-positive children in South Africa live in rural areas, yet there is little sub-Saharan data comparing rural paediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme outcomes with urban facilities. We compared clinical, immunological and virological outcomes between children at seven rural and 37 urban facilities across four provinces in South Africa. ...

Background: Since 1980s migrant peasant workers in China have migrated from rural areas to urban areas to seek for employment opportunities. More and more of migrant peasant workers’ children accompanied their parents to the cities and became another special population in modern Chinese urban areas. This study aimed to discuss the association between socioeconomic and lifestyle behavioral facto...

BACKGROUND A sedentary lifestyle among children is becoming increasingly common and has been linked to future risk of degenerative diseases. Urban residence has been suggested to be a contributing factor to a less active lifestyle; however, not all available studies support this link. In the present study we examined the physical activity patterns and sedentary behaviours of children living in ...

background: pediculus capitis or head louse infestation affects millions of children worldwide, especially those in the 5-11 years age group. this study aimed to determine the prevalence of head pediculosis among school children in ur­ban and rural areas of fars province, southern iran. methods: all school children of age 6-11 yr from both genders in all urban and rural areas of the province we...