BACKGROUND In countries with high maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality, reliable access to quality healthcare in rural areas is essential to save lives. Health workers who are satisfied with their jobs are more likely to remain in rural posts. Understanding what factors influence health workers' satisfaction can help determine where resources should be focused. Although there is a growi...

the main purpose of this study was to explore factors influencing immigration from rural to urban areas in varkaneh , a famous village and tourist destination located in western part of iran- hamedan. a questionnaire was designed and validated by a panel of experts from extension education dept. of bu-ali sina university and hamadan jihad of agriculture. its reliability was secured by cronbach’...

The paper aims to examine the population ageing as a new phenomenon effecting rural areas in Iran. Population ageing is going up throughout the country especially in the rural areas by 6.8 percent. fertility decline, increase in the youth migration to cities, and coming back to rural areas after retiring are the major factors which involve in rural ageing. This may jeopardize the communities. f...

Private Sector Development Department ▪ Finance, Private Sector, and Infrastructure Network Governments often regulate not only the overall level of prices charged by infrastructure firms but also the relationship between prices for different services or customers. Thus, government-controlled telephone monopolies may keep prices low for local calls and charge more for long-distance calls. Power...

purpose: development inequalities in rural regions, especially in regard to infrastructures and delivery services impose numerous undesired consequences over towns and villages. hence this research attempted to assess the infrastructure – services development level of villages in central district of koohdasht county (lorestan province). methodology: the research is an applied and descriptive- a...

We conducted a qualitative content analysis of barriers to nursing home admission for rural residents. Data came from semi-structured interviews with 23 rural hospital discharge planners across five states (Georgia, Idaho, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin). From those, we identified four themes around nonmedical barriers to rural nursing home placement with particular salience in rural ar...

There is an immediate need to step up the flow of credit to agricultural and other rural activities in India for improving rural productivity and economic welfare. In this context, we propose an ICT-based solution for improving the delivery of credit and other services to the rural areas through unbundling and outsourcing of the rural banking operations. The solution involves setting up of a co...

Network role is vital to transfer benefits of information technology in rural hands to minimize the gap between urban and rural infrastructure. Observations represent coarse relationships to identify and understand possible models based on Network Artifacts (NA) to establish computer network in rural areas. The purpose is to promote such NA which would consume less effort to learn and use new t...

ISSUE ADDRESSED Social-ecological models of health behaviour acknowledge environmental influences, but research examining how the environment shapes physical activity in rural settings is limited. This study aimed to explore the environmental factors that act as barriers or facilitators to physical activity participation among rural adults. METHODS Forty-nine adults from three regions of rura...

We believe that wireless infrastructure can have an unprecedented positive impact on the economic and social development of the rural areas of developing regions. We look at four aspects of rural connectivity that are poorly understood and that should affect both proposed solutions and policy: the limitations of cellular, the need to focus on non-mobile endpoints, the use of unlicensed spectrum...