Socioeconomic trends and developments within the U.S. healthcare system have challenged rural hospitals' ability to maintain adequate operating margins and offer needed services. However, some hospitals have fared better in this negative environment than have others. To clarify factors that distinguish the most viable rural Catholic hospitals from the least viable, our study identified a group ...

The New South Wales Department of Health (NSW Health) wishes to make appropriate use of casemix data as inputs to the determination of funding levels for small rural hospitals. However, other factors such as hospital size and degree of isolation might need to be taken into account. The study reported here involved correlation of actual expenditures with those predicted by use of a casemix model...

Purpose: Considering the importance of rural entrepreneurship development, the aim of this study was identifying the effective components on rural entrepreneurship development of Kurdistan handicrafts. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was qualitative. The research population was of rural entrepreneurship development documents of the ...

introduction: several strategies have been raised and studied for rural development including the development and fortification of small towns. researchers believe that small cities as a chain ring between cities and villages, provided their development and fortification, can lead to development in their surrounding rural areas in various aspects.  so, the strength and growth of small towns cou...

the information and communication technologies (icts) are being increasingly used by the governments to deliver its services to both rural and urban people. obviously, access and application of ict will provide services to improve the income and welfare of rural poor. this will help reducing rural poverty and improve quality of life. in iran, importance of using rural ict benefits and advantage...

Satellite imagery is a form of big data that can be harnessed for many social good applications, especially those focusing on rural areas. In this article, we describe the common problem of selecting sites for and planning rural development activities as informed by remote sensing and satellite image analysis. Effective planning in poor rural areas benefits from information that is not availabl...

While a country is surging ahead from a developing country to the status of a developed nation, the term "Development" has a connotation, both in terms of macro-level or micro-level development. When referred at the country level it becomes macro-level development, while at districts, it becomes microlevel development. At the sub-state level, “District” is the basic unit for all administrative ...

conservation and sustainability of natural ecosystems and sustainability of rural communities by good linking between communities and ecosystems through developing of alternative lifestyles are essential. inthisregard based on the ecovillage model as a model of sustainable lifestyle was paid to provide appropriate strategies for sustainable living in rural societies around wetland with identify...