BACKGROUND Although opioid use rates are comparable in rural and urban counties, rural opioid users tend to be younger, unmarried, have lower incomes, and are more likely to lack health insurance, all vulnerabilities that may negatively impact their ability to seek treatment and recover.1 Little is known about what states with large rural populations are doing to combat opioid use disorders (OU...

The results showed that among the factors affecting entrepreneurship, economic factor is most influential in study area. also rural entrepreneurship one of suitable fields for creating employment agricultural and non-agricultural sectors important achieving sustainable development areas.

—This paper explores new roles that traditionally rural kinship networks organized around the marriage institution might play in improving labor market outcomes in urban Africa. Using new data from Kisumu, Kenya, and controlling for selection into marriage, we find that marriage significantly increases employment levels and incomes in our sample of migrants. At the same time, marriage increases...

objectives thereby the prevalence, distribution characteristics and correlative factors of oa in mongolian middle-aged and senior residents in the inner mongolia autonomous region were investigated in this study. materials and methods rural and urban residents in hohhot, baotou and erdos were selected using stratified, multi-stage and cluster random sampling. 2000 residents aging over 45 filled...

http://www.ruralsociology.org The Situation: • Rural areas risk becoming “food deserts” as young families move away and market pressures continue to squeeze small grocers and retailers. Food deserts are defined as counties in which all residents must drive more than 10 miles to the nearest supermarket chain or supercenter. • The Great Plains are especially lacking in easy-access grocers. • The ...