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...

PURPOSE To describe the development and application of an evidence-based rural health framework to guide rural health program, policy and service planning. METHODS A literature review of rural health programs, focusing on health promotion, chronic disease prevention and population health, was conducted using several bibliographic databases. FINDINGS Thirty papers met the criteria for review...

comparative study of food consumption patterns in urban and rural elderly population in urmia     amirzadeh j [1] , amirzadeh n [2] , rasoli j [3] *     received: 10 sep, 2011 accepted: 22 nov, 2011     abstract   background & aims : as elderly population is growing fast, it is vital to pay more attention to elevating elderly health care. since aging is accompanied by specific diseases, nutriti...

introductionrural areas have an important role in the development of countries. while rural areas by implementing a detailed plan developed in accordance with the characteristics of the villages in the area certainly play a pivotal role in national development if required. this small rural city located in fars province to eliminate inequalities in the distribution of resources and services to t...

more than 80 percent of the china's population is located in the rural areas, 95 percent of which use coal, wood etc for cooking and heating. limited by data availability, the association between household solid fuels and cardiovascular diseases (cvds) in china's rural areas is ignored in prior studies.this cross sectional study was conducted from 2010-2012 and carried out on rural population a...

The paper discusses the institutional reforms for rural electrification (RE) in Thailand and Bangladesh and analyses the impacts of private sector participation in electricity generation and tariff reforms on the poor in Thailand. RE program in Thailand, initiated in 1977, increased electricity access by rural households from 7% in early 70s to 97% by 2000. In Bangladesh the RE program, initiat...

Socioeconomic trends and developments within the U.S. healthcare system have challenged rural hospitals' ability to maintain adequate operating margins and offer needed services. However, some hospitals have fared better in this negative environment than have others. To clarify factors that distinguish the most viable rural Catholic hospitals from the least viable, our study identified a group ...

The New South Wales Department of Health (NSW Health) wishes to make appropriate use of casemix data as inputs to the determination of funding levels for small rural hospitals. However, other factors such as hospital size and degree of isolation might need to be taken into account. The study reported here involved correlation of actual expenditures with those predicted by use of a casemix model...