This study in 2006 estimated the hepatitis B virus (BHV) vaccination coverage in the Islamic Republic of Iran at the national and district levels in urban, rural and remote populations of 41 university health service areas. Of 21 905 children recruited to the study, vaccination coverage based on vaccination card records was 100% in 14, 15 and 10 of the 41 university areas for the 1st, 2nd and 3...

A cross sectional study was conducted during May-June 2010 among woman of reproductive age group (15-45 years) in the urban and the rural areas of Bareilly District to asses the level of awareness regarding RTIs/STDs. The two stage cluster sampling technique was adopted. A structured questionnaire was used to interview the study participants during the house to house surveys. Each woman of repr...

Findings reported from a survey of 997 people aged 75 years and over living at home in a rural and an urban area showed that the two areas were similar in overall levels of support and in levels of perceived need. The rural area enjoyed rather more generous support from district nurses and health visitors than the urban area, a finding which challenges the widely-held view that rural areas suff...

The study was conducted that educated working mothers of adolescents in teaching profession those belong to urban and rural area have more knowledge about AIDS. The study was delimited to Ludhiana and Gurdapur district of Punjab .The sample consisted of 100 educated working mothers especially in teaching profession out of which 50 in urban areas and 50 in rural areas, were selected on the basis...

Shortage and maldistribution of the health workforce has remained an important concern for health systems in many countries.1-3 In Thailand, different government interventions and efforts mostly through increasing production from major medical schools were successively put in place over the second half of 20th century mainly to address rural-urban uneven distribution and internal brain drain.4 ...

Literacy is the main key factor of development in the society. It creates an important input in overall development of individual and enables them to realize their socio, economic, political responsibility. In India, the overall literacy rate is 74.04 percent whereas male and female literacy rate is 82.14 percent and 65.46 percent respectively. It shows that more than one-fourth of the country’...

Among many agrobased cottage industries in India sericulture has been promoted as an agro-based, labor intensive, rural oriented cottage industry, providing gainful employment mainly to the weaker and marginalized section of the society specially tribal. Sericulture occupies the place of pride in the rural economy can be practiced even with very low land holding, low gestation, high returns mak...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a major cause of enormous disability in both the developed and developing world. The worldwide prevalence estimate for symptomatic OA is 9.6% among men and 18% among women. The present study was undertaken with the objectives: To estimate the prevalence of Knee Osteoarthritis (KOA) in women of rural and urban Hoshiarpur and to elucidate the correlates of KOA in women of r...

AIMS To determine the prevalence, clinical characteristics, and outcome of hypoglycaemia on admission in children at a rural Kenyan district hospital. METHODS Observational study of 3742 children (including 280 neonates) in Kilifi District Hospital, Kenya. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES hypoglycaemia (blood glucose <2.2 mmol/l) and hyperglycaemia (blood glucose >10.0 mmol/l). RESULTS Non-neonates:...

PROBLEM In the 1970s, Thailand was a low-income country with poor health indicators and low health service coverage. The local health infrastructure was especially weak. APPROACH In the 1980s, measures were initiated to reduce geographical barriers to health service access, improve the health infrastructure at the district level, make essential medicines more widely available and develop a co...