The cooperative movement on the Canadian prairies is a major element in the region's social and economic history. The main impetus behind the creation of the movement was the successive agrarian revolts that occurred between 1895 and 1945. Those revolts significantly disrupted the national Canadian political process, both directly by producing the Progressive movement, and indirectly by contrib...

China: Policy and Practice of MCH since the Early 1990s Youde Guo, David Zakus and Hong Liang (1 School of Social Develoment and Public Policy, Fudan University, China 2 Centre for International Health, University of Toronto, Canada) Abstract Since the socioeconomic reforms in China in the late 1970s the improvement of maternal and child health (MCH), which was once considered one of the great ...

This study was funded under a cooperative agreement with the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP), Health Resources and Services Administration, DHHS, Grant Number 1U1CRH03715. The conclusions and opinions expressed in this report are the author's alone; no endorsement by NORC, ORHP, or other sources of information is intended or should be inferred. The Walsh Center's mission is to cond...

Rural entrepreneurship in the developing world has long been hailed as a powerful tool for promoting socioeconomic integration of young people and key to avoiding rural depopulation well ensuring these areas remain attractive places youth. However, there have no efforts investigate role collective creation management new businesses Morocco. Furthermore, we build on theory planned behavior (TPB)...

INTRODUCTION Migrants are a vulnerable population and could experience various challenges and barriers to accessing health insurance. Health insurance coverage protects migrants from financial loss related to illness and death. We assessed social health insurance (SHI) coverage and its financial protection effect among rural-to-urban internal migrants (IMs) in China. METHODS Data from the '20...

The incidence of post-operative wound infections in Belize in 1986 and 1987 was studied. Both military practice in the military hospital and civilian practice in the rural hospitals of the local towns were included. Despite previous misgivings and sub-optimal conditions in the rural hospitals an acceptably low incidence was found in both areas of work.

People living in rural and remote communities often have among the greatest health needs but the most limited access to healthcare services, including specialist care. One solution for increasing access to specialist services is visiting-specialist services or specialist outreach clinics - that is, planned, regular visits by specialist physicians from their usual practice location to see patien...

This article summarizes the perspectives gained in the course of evaluating a 4-year demonstration program that supported rural hospital networks as mechanisms for improving rural health care delivery. Findings include: (1) joining a network is a popular, low-cost strategic response for rural hospitals in an uncertain environment; (2) rural hospital network survival is enhanced by the mutual re...

INTRODUCTION Improved HIV outcomes as a result of expanded antiretroviral therapy (ART) access is threatened by increasing rates of loss to follow up (LTFU) among those on ART, largely reported in urban populations. Some reports suggest that LTFU rates are overestimated due to patient movement to other facilities and inadequate medical records. STUDY OBJECTIVE To define the proportion disenga...