This article wants to propose this theory that Farm Corporations are agropolitan development models in Iran. As over-concentrating investments to the urban areas did not lead to a trickledown effect to the rural areas. To the extreme, there are ideas to minimize linkages with the urban economy, and to make the rural areas pursue self-sufficiency by maximizing its potentials. However, against th...

CME (continuing medical education) is a key concept of national strategies in health. A study was undertaken of the current knowledge and continuing future training requirements of nurses, Inspectors CME to inform policy to meet national goals of healthcare. Questionnaire distributed to nurses, pharmacist, doctors and health inspectors in rural hospital who practice Traditional Indian Medicine ...

maternal nutritional status and weight gain throughout pregnancy affect the outcome of pregnancy. the objective of this study was to determine prepregnancy body mass index and total weight gain during pregnancy in women from rural areas of guilan province, iran. prenatal and obstetrical records of 480 pregnant women who attended rural health centers between 2002 and 2003 including prepregnancy ...

introduction knowledge is continuously being produced in the process of formulating and implementing rural development projects. the capital is available without any cost, but it is neglected. knowledge has been distributed along the extensive network through the country. if knowledge management is recorded and exploited, it could lead to dramatic changes as a result of the butterfly approach. ...

INTRODUCTION Both socioeconomic status and travel time to cancer treatment have been associated with treatment choice and patient outcomes. An improved understanding of the relationship between these two dimensions of access may enable cancer control experts to better target patients with poor access, particularly in isolated suburban and rural communities. METHODS Using geographical informat...

Local information and communication resource centers, usually called telecenters, are springing up in developing countries with the objective of bringing the beneats of new communication technologies to the rural poor. Rural telecenters are calling the attention of academic and nonacademic researchers, but there is no theoretical framework to help understand the process of diffusion and adoptio...

INTRODUCTION Numerous strategies have been suggested to increase recruitment of family physicians to rural communities and smaller regional centers. One approach has been to implement distributed postgraduate education programs where trainees spend substantial time in such communities. The purpose of the current study was to compare the eventual practice location of family physicians who undert...

BACKGROUND The primary health care has notable effects on community health and accreditation is one of the appropriate evaluation methods that led to health system performance improvement, therefore, this study aims to developing of national accreditation model for rural health centers in Iran Health System. METHODS Firstly the suitable accreditation models selected to benchmarking worldwide ...