Uncovering the Disparities in Educational Attainment across Urban and Rural Locations in Northern Ireland

From Urban and Rural Locations

Background. After discharge from an acute care setting, elderly cardiac patients take a variety of medications in the horne setting. Their pharmacologic regimens are often quite complex, and may involve drugs from several therapeutic categories. Patterns of medication use can be one measure of patient status after discharge because they can indicate whether medical conditions are stabilized. A ...

Urban and rural variations in morbidity and mortality in Northern Ireland

BACKGROUND From a public health perspective and for the appropriate allocation of resources it is important to understand the differences in health between areas. This paper examines the variations in morbidity and mortality between urban and rural areas. METHODS This is a cohort study looking at morbidity levels of the population of Northern Ireland at the time of the 2001 census, and subseq...

(NIPAD) study: effectiveness in urban and rural The Northern Ireland Public Access Defibrillation

Urban Bias in Development and Educational Attainment in Brazil

The main goal of this study is to investigate the role of the urban bias in the Brazilian development on the educational attainment process. Theories of educational inequality and socioeconomic development and modernization are considered to construct the hypotheses. The study is based on a nation-wide probability sample survey (the 1988 PNAD). OLS regression models are estimated to assess the ...

Comparative Benefits of Mobile Telephone in Selected Rural and Urban Locations of Obio/Akpor Local Government

The study comparatively identified the benefits of mobile telephone to users in selected rural and urban locations in Obio/Akpor local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used in selecting 60 rural and 60 urban phone users to have a total sample size of 120 respondents. Structured questionnaire was used to generate data that were analy...