Improving the Rural-Urban Balance in Cambodia’s Health Services

Rural and urban disparity in health services utilization in China.

OBJECTIVES To describe patterns in physician and hospital utilization among rural and urban populations in China and to determine factors associated with any differences. METHODS In 2003, the Third National Health Services Survey in China was conducted to collect information about health services utilization from randomly selected residents. Of the 193,689 respondents to the survey (response ...

Improving access to eye health services in rural Timor-Leste.

CONTEXT Delivering eye health services to people in rural areas, especially in fragile, post-conflict countries, is a major challenge. This article reports on the implementation and evaluation of an innovative district-based outreach service. The main project partners were the Timor-Leste Ministry of Health and an international non-government organization, with assistance from a local non-gover...

Urban Health Services

This book is a collection of essays prepared as reports of studies by the staff of the Conservation of Human Resources Project at Coluimbia University. It is fleshedI out witlh introdluctory comments and conclusions by the director of the project, Professor Eli Ginzberg. It is Ginzberg's unifying conceptualization that binds the essays togetlher: "An evaluative review of efforts to improve heal...

Norc Walsh Center for Rural Health Performance of Rural and Urban Home Health Agencies in Improving Patient Outcomes

An evaluation of access to health care services along the rural-urban continuum in Canada

BACKGROUND Studies comparing the access to health care of rural and urban populations have been contradictory and inconclusive. These studies are complicated by the influence of other factor which have been shown to be related to access and utilization. This study assesses the equity of access to health care services across the rural-urban continuum in Canada before and after taking other deter...