INTRODUCTION People with intellectual disability (ID) comprise 2-3% of the Australian population. They mostly rely on their GP for primary health care. In rural areas where there are issues with health workforce shortages, there is a risk that people with ID may not get timely access to primary care or may not be aware of the range of healthcare services available to support them. International...

Telemedicine is one of the latest evolutions of ICT. Telemedicine can be used as the effective means of delivering the quality healthcare to the rural people. The resource availability is comparatively less for making the healthcare to reach rural masses. Telemedicine helps the rural people access the expert advice and reducing their health risks. Andhra Pradesh Vaidhya Vidhana Parishad (APVVP)...

CONTEXT HIV/AIDS is occurring with increasing frequency in rural areas of the United States, and people living with HIV/AIDS in rural communities report higher levels of perceived stigma than their more urban counterparts. The extent to which stigmatized individuals perceive stigma could be influenced, in part, by prevailing community attitudes. Differences between rural and more metropolitan c...

The main objective of the study was the analysis of types, causes and consequences of head injuries among patients treated in the Ward for Multi-Organ Injuries during the period 1999-2002. The study aimed at the recognition of the health situation and selected demographic traits of people who had sustained head injuries. The authors' research tool - a Scientific-Research Protocol - was applied ...

The main objective of this work is to review the recent achievements on mechanisms explaining local and rural development, which underpin current definition areas in European literature. analysis carried out article acknowledges a gap between development processes representation diversity by international organisations national/regional authorities. New concepts can be drawn from comparative an...

This study aims to examine the village funds and village-owned enterprises in reducing poverty Indonesia. The fund has been rolled out since 2015 by government of Republic data used is panel combining time series from 2021. population this consists all villages 23 districts/cities Aceh propince, with total 6.497 villages, using regression as an analytical tool. result showed that although do ha...

In order to properly evaluate physical health status of adults in Weifang city, shape, physique, physical function and physical quality indicators of adults and the differences between urban people and rural people were probed by means of random sampling, measurement and comparative analysis. The results show that: urban non-manual adults were higher and heavier than urban manual ones and rural...

Health researchers have paid scant attention towards the health of rural areas. Most of the times, changing lifestyles and the altering environments of a rural setting may modify the health scenario of the rural inhabitants. In the present study we investigate the influence of living in a rural area as described by rural from different parts of the Northern Province of central India. Our analys...