BACKGROUND Assessment of the availability of essential medicines, in rural areas of countries with free state health care system, is scarce. Dependence on essential medicines among the population in rural sector is considered to be high. Assessing the availability of essential medicines in selected state owned primary and secondary health care institutions of a rural district will help to ident...

or almost impossible to find vacancies in Certified Institutions for low grade or troublesome defectives. Mental Hospitals and Public Assistance Institutions are unwillingly obliged to receive these cases. Local Authorities are well aware of the harm and hardships which ensue from the retention of this type of patient in Public Assistance Institutions. The Board of Control require that Mental D...

In the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet area, Communist Party of China carried out political mobilization through rural tradition. Firstly, by making masses feel improvement their material life, it stimulated traditional ethic gratitude. This prompted them to join Red Army. Secondly, influenced with popular and vivid newspapers according farmers. Thirdly, influence people Army or government was used lead...

This article summarizes the perspectives gained in the course of evaluating a 4-year demonstration program that supported rural hospital networks as mechanisms for improving rural health care delivery. Findings include: (1) joining a network is a popular, low-cost strategic response for rural hospitals in an uncertain environment; (2) rural hospital network survival is enhanced by the mutual re...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Indian Health Service (IHS) is an educational rotation site for numerous medical students and residents. These IHS rotations may be an important factor in recruitment and retention of physicians to the IHS. We describe the combined number of student/resident rotations in the Southwest IHS and their influence on recruitment and retention. We also analyze factors rel...

very poor. Individuals in rural areas have hard time accessing education and health and are outside of the formal pension system. Public assistance safety nets are often implemented through community involvement, which also excludes the rural poor and urban indigents. In the final chapter, Alesina, Carrasquilla, and Roberto Steiner write about the Central Bank, its improvement in terms of indep...

The tremendous increase in motor vehicle usage during recent years in Indiana (7)* and in the United States (1) has greatly affected highway operation. This increase in motor vehicle usage has created an added demand on all components of the highway system resulting in increased operating costs to the motoring public. Inter­ sections are an important component of this system and the increased t...