Abstract Background Many challenges exist in providing equitable access to rural healthcare the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). WHO recommends student exposure clinical rotations promote interest healthcare. Challenges engagement include lack adequate infrastructure and staff lead education. This case report highlights key steps developing a rotation program for DRC nursing students. Case p...

the health of the world rural community has become the focus of attention during the past several years. realizing the future of the traditional system of medical practice many countries have initiated specific public health programmes in order to alleviate the plight of this group of people. however, in their effort to establish such programmes the medical community must not be oblivious of th...

Sanjoy Chakravorty ([email protected]) is at Temple University. Land prices in urban and rural India have increased rapidly in the last decade – fivefold in urban areas and possibly more in some rural settings. Using comparable international data, this paper shows that urban prices are significantly higher than is commensurate with income and that the peaks of these prices are extraordinarily h...

India lives in its villages, nearly 73 % of the total population live in rural areas where agriculture and allied activities are the main stay of their lives. The economic development of our country largely depends on the development of rural areas and the standard of living of its rural mass. Rural entrepreneur is one of the most important inputs in the economic development of a country and of...

With Chinese economic rapidly development, urban and rural difference are also increasing, no matter in living standards, living conditions or spiritual life pursuit, cultural quality, all have obvious differences. It also causes urban and rural sports to have bigger differences in development process. The paper researches on Chinese urban and rural sports development basic status, makes concre...

BACKGROUND The Physician Shortage Area Program (PSAP) of Jefferson Medical College (JMC) is one of a small number of comprehensive medical school rural programs that has been successful in increasing the supply of family physicians practicing in rural areas. Although retention is a critical component of the rural physician supply, published long-term outcomes are limited. METHODS Of the 1937 ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to investigate differences in organ-specific cancer incidence according to the region and population size in Korea. MATERIALS AND METHODS We reviewed the data of the cancer registration program of Gyeongnam Regional Cancer Center between 2008 and 2011. Age-standardized rates of cancer incidence were analyzed according to population size of the region and a...

regarding the undeniable role of women in the process of rural development on the one hand and their inappropriate situation in terms of the most indices of rural development on the other hands, rural women’s empowerment is essential. meanwhile, many researchers and scholars believe that social capital and its components play a key role. thus, the main purpose of this descriptive- correlative r...

The study focused on the perceptions to climate change among rural farming households in the Niger Delta Area, Nigeria. The basic objective was to determine the rural farming household’s perception to climate change in the Area and the specific objective was to determine the direction of change of the climate change indicators (whether increasing, decreasing or constant). Multistage sampling pr...

School-to-school collaboration as a school improvement method has grown in importance in England in recent years, and there is some evidence that such collaboration can have a positive impact on both capacity to change and student attainment. Most previous work in the area has focused on the urban context, however, despite the fact that increasing numbers of underperforming rural schools might ...