Australia's rural hospitals face most of the same issues and challenges faced by metropolitan hospitals. However they also face additional challenges around geographic isolation, their iconic status and role as major employers in local communities, and their close relationship with community based health services. Future opportunities include more formal integration with community service throu...

Cooperatives represent an alternative to large-scale corporate farms as well as to independent unaffiliated small private farms. This article presents a comparative modeling narrative on cooperative organizational forms’ potential impact on equitable rural development. This speaks to issues of both increasing the size of the economic pie and how this income is distributed. The case is made that...

Context: China’s New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) aims to provide health insurance to 800 million rural citizens and to correct distortions in rural Chinese health care. However, little is known about the effects of its individual policy features or its impact on village clinics (the primary care backbone of rural China). Objective: The objective of this study is to determine whether...

The paper mentioned using SOA framework and the technology of Web Service, aiming at the problem of "Information Isolated Island", specifically for rural information resources, an agricultural information service platform is constructed based on SOA and Web Service. This platform integrates distributed systems and service platforms and it deals with agricultural information by cooperative proce...

All authors are with the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation. Direct correspondence to Dr Catherine McCarty, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, 1000 North Oak Avenue (ML1) Marshfield, WI 54449, 715.389.3120, fax 715.389.4950, e-mail mccarty. [email protected]. The Rural Women’s Health Study was funded in part by Cooperative Agreement grant number UO7/CCU5O7126 from the Centers f...

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Chronic shortages of health, social service, and mental health professionals in rural areas necessitate creative partnerships in support of families. Cooperative extension professionals in Family and Consumer Sciences and community health nurses are introduced as trusted professionals in rural communities who can bring critical skills to human services teams. Multidisciplinary prevention progra...

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Biosciences Research Division, Department of Primary Industries, Bundoora 3083, Victoria, Australia, Cooperative Research Centre for Sheep Industry Innovation, Armidale 2351, NSW, Australia, Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit (AGBU), Armidale 2351, NSW, Australia School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale 2351, NSW, Australia,La Trobe University, Bundoora 3086...