: Underdeveloped Areas . Lyle W. Shannon.

Adam Lyle Hickenbotham

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Regional Inequality in Underdeveloped Areas: A Case Study of Guizhou Province in China

This study analyzes regional development in one of the poorest provinces in China, Guizhou Province, between 2000 and 2012 using a multiscale and multi-mechanism framework. In general, regional inequality has been declining since 2000. In addition, economic development in Guizhou Province presented spatial agglomeration and club convergence, which shows how the development pattern of core-perip...

Physician scarcity in underdeveloped areas of Turkey: what do new graduate physicians think?

INTRODUCTION A sufficient and balanced distribution of physicians plays a key role in access to high quality healthcare services. However, this issue presents serious problems globally. Turkey is currently experiencing physician shortages, with insufficient numbers of physicians in its rural and underdeveloped areas. The objectives of this study were to identify the views of new graduate physic...

An equity analysis of health examination service utilization by women from underdeveloped areas in western China

OBJECTIVE This study sought to examine the sources of inequity in health examination service utilization by women from underdeveloped areas in western China. METHODS Based on data from the 5th National Health Service Survey in Shaanxi province, women's utilization of health examination services was examined according to gynecological, cervical smear, and breast examination rates. The equity o...

Underdeveloped Diagnoses : Questioning Infant Mental