At the core of the current agricultural system is a clear focus on increasedproduction, with increased intensification as the answer to current global societal andenvironmental issues. It is clear to many however that following a business as usual pathwill put increased tension on the already stressed planetary boundaries. Climate change,economic and demographic evolutions w...

INTRODUCTION General public views and expectations around the use of antibiotics can influence general practitioners' antibiotic prescribing decisions. We set out to describe the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about the use of antibiotics for respiratory tract infections in adults in Poland, and explore differences according to where people live in an urban-rural continuum. MATERIAL AND MET...

The economic and social development of nations relies on their population having physical access to services employment opportunities. For the vast majority 3.4 billion people living in rural locations, this largely depends urban centers different sizes. Similarly, depend hinterlands. Building literature functional areas/territories rural-urban continuum as well insights from central place theo...

There has been little work relating food flows with insecurity, and how inter-county trading can drive differences across the rural/urban divide. Using rural–urban continuum codes in combination a new data set on at county level we examine correlation between insecurity trade. Results indicate heterogeneous impacts of trade types rates. From Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions find that rural metropo...

AbstractThis is a case study of the development rural continuum care (CoC) program funded by US Department Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to create coherent system services...

BACKGROUND Comprehensive and timely rehabilitation for total joint arthroplasty (TJA) is needed to maximize recovery from this elective surgical procedure for hip and knee arthritis. Administrative data do not capture the variation of treatment for rehabilitation across the continuum of care for TJA, so we conducted a survey for physiotherapists to report practice for TJA across the continuum o...

Urban population scaling of resource use, creativity metrics, and human behaviors has been widely studied. These studies have not looked in detail at the full range of human environments which represent a continuum from the most rural to heavily urban. We examined monthly police crime reports and property transaction values across all 573 Parliamentary Constituencies in England and Wales, findi...

Urban population scaling of resource use, creativity metrics, and human behaviors has been widely studied. These studies have not looked in detail at the full range of human environments which represent a continuum from the most rural to heavily urban. We examined monthly police crime reports and property transaction values across all 573 Parliamentary Constituencies in England and Wales, findi...

OBJECTIVES To identify factors associated with the use of selected medical services near the end of life in cognitively impaired residents of rural and urban nursing homes. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study using Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrative data for 1998 through 2002. SETTING Minnesota and Texas nursing homes. PARTICIPANTS Nursing home residents aged 65 and o...