An imponant aspect of the ongoing debate on rural health policy is how to deliver inpatient care in sparsely populated rural areas. One alternative is to create a new classification of rural inpatient facility that would deliver more limited services than available in a rural hospital, have more flexibility in staffing requirements, and possibly be reimbursed differently. The support of the Hea...

i Contents Executive Summary iii 1. Introduction 1 1.1 The origins of agri-environment policy in England 1 1.2 The England Rural Development Programme 2 1.3 The context of this evaluation 3 2.

Post-modernity has led to a re-evaluation of tradition. This paper considers one aspect of this re-evaluation — the role of traditional cultures and their implications for a rural development process which is economically, socially and environmentally sustainable in the marginal regions of Europe. The links between traditional cultures, territoriality and sustainability suggest that a culturall...

ing on the study, must have problems with its health care delivery. Rural areas began to lose their share of physicians with the surge in medical specialization in the 1940s and 1950s and continue to suffer today, despite federal and state programs designed to assist rural practitioners (such as the National Health Service Corps, Rural Health Initiative, Appalachian Regional Commission, etc.) a...

While “agricultural and rural development” is one of the key policy areas, there is no universally accepted way on how to classify the urban and rural. On one hand, dissatisfied with the OECD approach in which a “rural area” is defined merely based on the population density, there has been a rich literature in the statistical discourse and policy debate on what other variables should be conside...

For decades, rapid urban expansion has led to concerns over the loss of cultivated land in rural China. Less well known is the fact that development of newly cultivated land has in fact consistently exceeded land conversion from 1999-2006. This paper provides an analytical model that makes sense of this observation, featuring fiscal decentralization, local governments as custodians of land use ...

Using a policy analysis framework, we analyzed the implementation and perceived effectiveness of a rural allowance policy and its influence on the motivation and retention of health professionals in rural hospitals in the North West province of South Africa. We conducted 40 in-depth interviews with policy-makers, hospital managers, nurses, and doctors at five rural hospitals and found weaknesse...