OBJECTIVES As part of a larger case study exploring physician retention factors and strategies employed by rural communities, the objective of this analysis was to explore the community factors that promoted physician retention. METHODS A qualitative, collective case study design was employed to study four rural communities (cases) in Alberta that retained family physicians for four years or ...

BACKGROUND Over the past decade, visitors to Alaska have spent increasing amounts of time engaged in water-based recreational activities aboard vessels of various sizes. Serious vessel-related injuries to travelers in Alaska involve not only medical care from unfamiliar health care providers and facilities but also entail the loss of vacation time and the need for injured travelers to return to...

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This article begins a new six-part series in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association devoted to medical ethics. Each issue, a case will be presented from the Ethics committee at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged (HRCA) in Boston, Massachusetts. Following a description of the case and a discussion of the ethical issues that the case raises, Dr. Steven Levenson will disc...

BACKGROUND Preliminary evidence suggests that recreational walking has different environmental determinants than utilitarian walking. However, previous studies are limited in their assessment of environmental exposures and recreational walking and in the applied modeling strategies. Accounting for individual sociodemographic profiles and weather over the walking assessment period, the study exa...

BACKGROUND The transition from active employment to retirement is a potentially critical period for promoting maintenance or development of recreational physical activity in older age. Park proximity and quality might be important correlates of recreational physical activity in this age group. However, research on park-physical activity relationships among mid-older aged adults is limited and i...

Abstract: This study was conducted to find out the perception of local community towards Rajang Esplanade Sibu, Sarawak. The also aims identify causes sound pollution, unsatisfactory hygiene problems and analyze community's assessment facilities at Sibu. In conducting this study, researcher used quantitative methods obtain data. A total 384 respondents from Sibu were involved in answering quest...

Abstract Recreational cannabis markets possibly increase labor demand through investments in facilities for growing, processing, and retail sales of cannabis, as well other industries such manufacturing, leisure, hospitality. However, this may vary substantially across counties within a state most states with legal recreational allow individual to ban commercial sales. Meanwhile, supply change ...