The purpose of the present study was to compare the incidence of childhood meningitis in regions with fewer than 2,000 inhabitants (rural regions) and regions with more than 2,000 inhabitants (urban regions) in the prefecture of Achaia in Western Greece during 1991-2005. Included were all 555 children hospitalized for meningitis. The criteria for bacterial meningitis were (i) positive blood/cer...

Through interpreting Landsat TM images, this study analyzes the spatial distribution of rural settlements in China in 2000. It calculates rural residential land percentage for every 1-km(2) cell. The entire country is divided into 33 regions to investigate the spatio-temporal dynamic patterns of rural residential land during the 1990s. According to the remote sensing survey, the rural residenti...

background : inequality in households’ payments on food and health expenditures presents the accessibility and utili-zation patterns between them. this study investigated the iranian rural and urban households’ inequality in payments on food and out-of-pocket health expenditures from 1998 to 2012. methods : this descriptive study was conducted through the analysis of iranian statistics centre d...

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extended abstract 1. introduction recent century has witnessed a more growing interest in the concept of “sustainability”. the impetus for this interest arises from a number of factors including awareness of worsening social, economic, and environmental conditions and lack of ability on the part of the present economic and social systems in most developing countries to keep population especiall...

objectives: to investigate the differences in death after receiving emergency services in traffic accidents between urban and rural regions, and decompose factors of the gap in langerood, northern iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in langrood, northern iran during a 1-year period from 2013 to 2014. the hospital data of traffic crashes were used. data contained those patien...

Options for a New Rural America, revealed important insights into the theoretical foundation for analyzing rural economic issues (Barca) and provided focus for new public policies for rural and urban regions (Stauber, Rosenfeld). Indeed, viable regions, by necessity, contain both rural and urban areas; else the “region” is conceived too narrowly. My comments will focus attention on several of t...

This paper explores the role of local context on the effectiveness of overall employment strategy in reducing rural labor forces through non-agricultural rural employment. Compared to other regions in China, rural labor migration in Pingliang city, Gansu has owned unique characteristics. In the light of rural labor resource status, local government adjusts measures to particular conditions and ...