Living with increasing urbanisation and human populations requires resourcefulness flexibility in wild animals' behaviour. Animals have to adapt anthropogenic novelty habitat structure resources that may not resemble, or be as beneficial as, natural resources. Herring gulls Larus argentatus increasingly reside towns cities breed forage, yet how are adjusting their behaviour life urban areas is ...

INTRODUCTION Rural residents generally experience a higher rate of injury than residents in urban settings. This article sought to identify and compare the pattern of injury mortality and hospitalised injury morbidity for urban and rural residents in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. METHOD Hospitalisation data for 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2005 and Australian Bureau of Statistics mortality data...

In rural health settings, patients with trauma who initially are transported to a community hospital often require transfer to a designated trauma center. Rural hospitals typically are not equipped or properly staffed to treat severely injured patients. When trauma occurs, transport time longer than 60 minutes from an accident scene to a place of definitive care can have detrimental effects on ...

A number of studies have compared general medical practices in rural locations with those in urban locations. Some of these studies have concentrated on the reasons why a GP might choose to work in a rural or urban setting. Others have examined the type of work required to be undertaken by medical professionals. Increasing use of information and communications technology (ICT) in medical practi...

INTRODUCTION For many rural Canadians nursing care is the primary and often the sole access point to health care. As such, rural nurses are an invaluable resource to the health and wellbeing of rural populations. However, due to a nursing workforce that is aging and retiring, limited resources and support, healthcare reform issues, and other factors, these rural professionals are in short suppl...

As known, to finish this book, you may not need to get it at once in a day. Doing the activities along the day may make you feel so bored. If you try to force reading, you may prefer to do other entertaining activities. But, one of concepts we want you to have this book is that it will not make you feel bored. Feeling bored when reading will be only unless you don't like the book. the rural hos...

Research on the problem of decreasing numbers of rural veterinarians has identified that rural practice employment periods following graduation are getting shorter and replacing the graduates who leave is becoming increasingly difficult. One way of addressing these problems would be to develop a Bachelor of Veterinary Science (BVSc) curriculum that motivates young graduates to seek work in rura...

Existing research suggests that victimization risk is higher among urban residents. Violence against women a notable exception in this trend. While the literature does indicate rural are at equal for violent victimization, it not differentiate between types of non-urban spaces (exurbs, suburbs, small towns, dispersed rural). We use five-category measure rural-urban location articulated land to ...