All authors are with the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation. Direct correspondence to Dr Catherine McCarty, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, 1000 North Oak Avenue (ML1) Marshfield, WI 54449, 715.389.3120, fax 715.389.4950, e-mail mccarty. [email protected]. The Rural Women’s Health Study was funded in part by Cooperative Agreement grant number UO7/CCU5O7126 from the Centers f...

Rural and remote places like Sable Island (Nova Scotia) or François (Newfoundland) pose a challenge in delivering both health care and appropriate education that today's learners need to practice in a rural setting. This education can be difficult to deliver to students far from academic centers. This is especially true for learners and practitioners at offshore locations like ships, oil instal...

BACKGROUND China has been experiencing the largest rural to urban migration in history. Rural-to-urban migrants are those who leave their hometown for another place in order to work or live without changing their hukou status, which is a household registration system in China, categorizing people as either rural residents or urban residents. Rural-to-urban migrants typically find better job opp...

Only radically lower cost service delivery models can close the growing “broadband gap that characterizes much of the developing world. Inveneo’s Haiti Rural Broadband Initiative seeks to demonstrate one such model by combining low-cost wireless technologies, shared infrastructure and local IT capacity building to extend broadband to 22 un-served population centers in Haiti. While progress is p...

This study examines the effect of 13 strategic management activities on the financial performance of a national sample of 797 U.S. rural hospitals during the period of 1983-1988. Controlled for environment-market, geographic-region, and hospital-related variables, the results show almost no measurable effect of strategic adoption on rural hospital profitability and liquidity. Where statisticall...

Perinatal mortality is high in rural hospitals in South Africa. In part this is due to less than optimal care. This study determined the perinatal mortality experienced by a rural hospital and its clinics. Avoidable causes of death are described and various intervention strategies that effectively and rapidly prevented such deaths, reducing perinatal mortality by one-third, are outlined.

INTRODUCTION An estimated 2.8 million cancer survivors reside in rural areas in the United States. We compared the risk behaviors, psychosocial factors, health outcomes, quality of life, and follow-up care of rural and urban cancer survivors in Missouri. METHODS We used 2009-2010 Missouri Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data to examine various health outcomes, behaviors, and psycho...

BACKGROUND There is a discernible, often ignored under-evaluated care-management gap in supportive cancer care, where the estimated clinical outcome is seldom translated into patient-centered benefit. METHODS The present research is an exploratory cross-sectional quantitative questionnaire survey study done in rural regions of Australia with the sole purpose of evaluating the care-management ...

This overview discusses articles published in this issue of the Health Care Financing Review, entitled "Access to Health Care Services in Rural Areas: Delivery and Financing Issues." These articles focus on the following topics: rural hospitals (including closures, the impact of Federal grants, network development, and costs), managed care in rural areas, telemedicine, and the delivery of menta...

This article examined the impact of managed care involvement on vulnerable populations served by community health centers (CHCs), while controlling for center rural-urban location and size, and found that centers involved in managed care have served a significantly smaller proportion of uninsured patients but a higher proportion of Medicaid users than those not involved in managed care. The res...