Rural health services

Employment of Health Care Services by Rural Inhabitants

Considering conflicting reports on the success efficacy of health services, this study was carried out to determine the sty le of utilization of health and treatment services in health centers of rural areas in 1996. The descriptive and cross-sectional strategy of this research study was performed in health centers of 11 provinces and their villages were classified into high, intermediate, and...

HEALTH, HEALTH CARE, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Wealth, Health, and Health Services in Rural Rajasthan.

What are the determinants of health and of well-being? Income and wealth are clearly part of the story, but does access to health care have a large independent effect, as the advocates of more investment in health care, such as the World Health Organization’s Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, 2001), have argued? This paper reports on a recent surv...

Developing Social Capital: Community Participation in Rural Health Services

Prospective payment for home health services in rural areas

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 ...