background: brucellosis as a zoonosis is still a public health problem in many countries such as iran. to perform preventive, control, and eradication policies about the disease, we need the exact epidemiologic information and patterns of brucellosis in the country. in this study, we investigated the epidemiological, clinical, and treatment aspects of diseases in patients who had a record in sh...

today, health-related quality of life (hrqol) is an important indicator of development; however, due to the greater vulnerability, hrqol level of women is lower than men, especially in rural regions. this problem has doubled the necessity to investigate and identify the factors affecting hrqol. given the importance of the issue, the purpose of this descriptive- correlative research was to study...

the political and social revolutions during recent years have made rapid changes in urban and rural life. these have created inequality in the distribution of resources and lack of congruent development among cities and rural migration in third world countries. herein, there are various techniques for assessing the rate of development in different regions one of which is analytical hierarchy me...

While a dairy cooperative provided the bylaws, managing a cooperative of rural hospitals has been a learn-as-you-go experience. This article presents the management principles that have been learned over the last 13 years. Its experience suggests that developing and managing partnerships requires behaviors different from those typically associated with the management of individual organizations.

INTRODUCTION 'Belonging' is a universal characteristic of human beings and is a basic human need. Rural nurses describe the nature of their practice as being embedded in working as a team where belonging is central to the success of the team and the individual nurse. As a result they form close professional and personal ties. The challenge for nursing students is to develop a sense of belonging...

The purpose of this study is to identify barriers to the adoption of new technology in rural settings. Specifically, this paper focuses on identifying and overcoming barriers to the adoption of a medication error reporting system in eight rural hospitals. Prior research has generally focused on barriers to the adoption of new technology in urban areas, medical centers, or large hospitals. The l...

INTRODUCTION Regional or state studies in the USA have documented shortages of rural physicians and other healthcare professionals that can impact on access to health services. The purpose of this study was to determine whether rural hospital chief executive officers (CEOs) in the USA report shortages of health professions and to obtain perceptions about factors influencing recruiting and reten...

This article studies the causes of China’s Great Famine, during which 16.5 to 45 million individuals perished in rural areas. We document that average rural food retention during the famine was too high to generate a severe famine without rural inequality in food availability; that there was significant variance in famine mortality rates across rural regions; and that rural mortality rates were...

amoebiasis is one of the most important human diseases in many countries especially in tropical and sub-tropical regions. this study was carried out from august 1999 to february 2002 in order to determine the ratio of entamoeba histolytica / entamoeba dispar in some regions of iran. a total of 16,592 stool samples were randomly collected from different agegroups in central, northern and souther...

This paper studies the causes of China’s Great Famine, during which 16.5 to 45 million individuals perished in rural areas. We document that average rural food retention during the famine was too high to generate a severe famine without rural inequality in food availability; that there was significant variance in famine mortality rates across rural regions; and that rural mortality rates were p...