PROBLEM The Chinese central government launched the Health System Reform Plan in 2009 to strengthen disease control and health promotion and provide a package of basic public health services. Village doctors receive a modest subsidy for providing public health services associated with the package. Their beliefs about this subsidy and providing public health services could influence the quality ...

Introduction: Rodents are the primary source of several zoonotic infectious diseases. The upsurge of rodents’ population in Najaf Abad Village of Nishapur County, northeastern Iran in February 2014 raised the concerns about the outbreak of diseases such as plague and tularemia. This report discusses the lessons learned from the outburst of rodents’ population in that village and rep...

Paper-based village registers were introduced 5 years ago in Malawi as a tool to measure vital statistics of births and deaths at the population level. However, usage, completeness and accuracy of their content have never been formally evaluated. In Traditional Authority Mwambo, Zomba district, Malawi, we assessed 280 of the 325 village registers with respect to (i) characteristics of village h...

The Indian village has often been seen as the ultimate signifier of " authentic native life " , a place where one could see or observe the " real " India and develop an understanding of the way local people organised their social life. Though it was during the colonial period that the Indian society was first essentialised as a land of 'village republics', the later traditions of scholarship to...

gel sefid village is in mashayekh village in central part of ardal city of chahar mahal and bakhtiari province. in the research, quickbird satellite image in google earth software was used to introduce the landscape of this village and to recognize the whole human uses and natural spots in the study area. then the resulting map was transferred to arcgis 3.1 software and the area land use map wa...

Telecommunications has had a powerful impact on development in rural areas of Peru and Indonesia. The AID Rural Satellite Pro­ gram demonstrated new ways of providing telephone service and transformed the telephonce into an educational tool through the addition of simple audioconferencing equipment. INTRODUCTION The tremendous growthi in worldwide telecommunications services in the last few dec...

There has been little research on the differential aspects of local/global dichotomy, yet there is every suggestion that such a distinction could be crucially important in terms of understanding the public’s perception and attitudes towards environmental problems as well as understanding their subsequent behaviour. This research sought to address three questions. First, are people only able to ...