With China's urbanization continuing to accelerate, a amount of rural people flood into China's cities in recent years, and the issue of agriculture, rural areas and farmers is getting more and more serious. In 2005, the Chinese government put forward a plan for “the construction of new rural village”, in order to coordinate the development of both urban and rural areas. The planning method of ...

Objective To assess rural – urban differences in electronic medical record (EMR) adoption among office-based physician practices in the U.S. Methods Survey data on over 270,000 office-based physician sites (representing over 1,280,000 physicians) in the U.S. collected by SK&A Information Services in 2012 was used to assess differences in EMR adoption rates between practices in rural and urban a...

In 2014, the all-cause age-adjusted death rate in the United States reached a historic low of 724.6 per 100,000 population (1). However, mortality in rural (nonmetropolitan) areas of the United States has decreased at a much slower pace, resulting in a widening gap between rural mortality rates (830.5) and urban mortality rates (704.3) (1). During 1999–2014, annual age-adjusted death rates for ...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the relationship of gender with cocaine use in rural areas. This study describes these relationships among stimulant users residing in rural areas of Arkansas, Kentucky, and Ohio. OBJECTIVES Understanding the characteristics of crack and powder cocaine users in rural areas may help inform prevention, education, and treatment efforts to address rural stimulant ...

INTRODUCTION Differences in health between urban and rural areas of Canada are well documented. Canadian rural communities are remarkably heterogeneous in terms of social, economic, and geographic characteristics. There is reason to believe that there is also considerable heterogeneity in health within rural Canada but existing literature has not given this adequate consideration. This article ...

 Aims of the Study: The objective of this study was to appraise wastewater management approaches in rural areas of Iran, restrictions, effects on environment and also definition of suitable management approaches in wastewater for future. Materials & Methods: This descriptive study was performed in 2010 in rural areas of Iran. A questionnaire was prepared with subjects such as availa...

CONTEXT Throughout its history, the main problem for Thailand's health system in has been an inadequate number of physicians and other healthcare workers in rural areas. Due to this, for decades in Thailand, rural service has been mandatory for healthcare workers. ISSUE Thailand's mandatory health service system commenced in 1889 and has been continuous until the present (2010). Under this sy...

extended abstract 1. introduction rural areas are environments that consist of different multiple sources and villagers use many assets and resources that shape their livelihood procedure. however, in most cases, incomplete and unconscious usage of sources is more destructive than uncontrolled industrial exploitation. for this reason, nowadays, rural poverty due to excessive pressure on resourc...

extended abstract 1. introduction today, villages with the notion of changes by particular social, cultural and economic factors. sum of these factors influence on the living style of residences in these areas, and at the end, they make a new life style. according to the given information, the main purpose of this research is to investigate the impacts of social, cultural, and economic factors ...

BACKGROUND Studies in the United States show that rural persons with HIV are more likely than their urban counterparts to be diagnosed at a late stage of infection, suggesting missed opportunities for HIV testing in rural areas. To inform discussion of HIV testing policies in rural areas, we generated nationally representative, population-based estimates of HIV testing frequencies in urban vs. ...