The pressures for closer alignment between physicians and hospitals in both rural and urban areas are increasing. This study empirically specifies independent dimensions of physician and clinical integration and compares the extent to which such activities are practiced between rural and urban hospitals and among rural hospitals in different organizational and market contexts. Results suggest t...

The present study measures levels of stigma within health care settings in urban and rural Gujarat, in an attempt to understand how this may have contributed to the state's increasing HIV incidence. Two sites were studied: a rural hospital in Bardoli and an urban hospital in Surat. HIV-associated stigma among healthcare workers (N=170) was assessed using a Stigma Index. Overall, analyses sugges...

With Chinese economic rapidly development, urban and rural difference are also increasing, no matter in living standards, living conditions or spiritual life pursuit, cultural quality, all have obvious differences. It also causes urban and rural sports to have bigger differences in development process. The paper researches on Chinese urban and rural sports development basic status, makes concre...

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 order to properly evaluate physical health status of adults in Weifang city, shape, physique, physical function and physical quality indicators of adults and the differences between urban people and rural people were probed by means of random sampling, measurement and comparative analysis. The results show that: urban non-manual adults were higher and heavier than urban manual ones and rural...

We examined differences in health measures among rural, suburban, and urban residents and factors that contribute to these differences. Whereas differences between rural and urban residents were observed for some health measures, a consistent rural-to-urban gradient was not always found. Often, the most rural and the most urban areas were found to be disadvantaged compared with suburban areas. ...

conclusions efforts to improve vaccination coverage should be taken into account regarding the differences in the factors that contribute to the incomplete vaccination status of children in the rural and urban areas. the current study findings indicate that vaccination services especially in the urban areas need to be reassessed to ensure that all children are covered. to develop and promote ch...

BACKGROUND Whooping cough is a communicable disease whose incidence has increased in recent years in some countries with vaccination. Since 1981, in Catalonia (Spain), cases must be reported to the Public Health Department. In 1997, surveillance changed from aggregated counts to individual report and the surveillance system was improved after 2002. Catalan public health is universal with equal ...

In 1994-1997 we conducted a four-wave longitudinal study of rural and urban problem drinkers in six Southern United States states to examine rural/urban differences in predictors of service use and course of drinking. This report describes early rural/urban differences from a brief interview with over 3,000 community individuals and among 525 identified problem drinkers. Overall, we found rural...

BACKGROUND There is evidence that rural residents experience a health disadvantage compared to urban residents, associated with a greater prevalence of health risk factors and socioeconomic differences. We examined differences between urban and rural Canadians using data from the Canadian Human Activity Pattern Survey (CHAPS) 2. METHODS Data were collected from 1460 respondents in two rural a...