The recent closure of rural health services in many developed countries has been a natural experiment as health planners strategically adopt regionalized systems of care to combat staggering healthcare system costs. Regionalization is predicated on offering health services in selected discrete locations (‘referral centers’) as opposed to in every local community of reasonable size. Where comple...

human settlements experience continual change. in recent years, many rural areas have experienced dispersed grow (rural sprawl) and population declines in traditional village centers (hollowing). these paradoxical phenomena have occurred in most developing countries, including rural iran. this study examines this phenomena in three iranian villages of kahak area of qom province, and develops a ...

OBJECTIVE Despite national guidelines recommending early concurrent palliative care for individuals newly diagnosed with metastatic cancer, few community cancer centers, especially those in underserved rural areas do so. We are implementing an early concurrent palliative care model, ENABLE (Educate, Nurture, Advise, Before Life Ends) in four, rural-serving community cancer centers. Our objectiv...

AIMS To estimate differences in the incidence of recorded traumatic head injuries by gender, age, severity, and geographical area. METHODS The study was prospective and nationwide. Data were collected from all hospitals, emergency units and healthcare centers in Iceland regarding all Icelandic children and adolescents 0-19 years old consecutively diagnosed with traumatic head injuries (N = 55...

The paper, according the investigation and research of the requirement of rural grid security risk management, designs a decision support system to assist decision-making of security risk management. System database and knowledge base were built, progress the model of security risk assessment. The application of methods of statistical analysis and reasoning, avoids, prevents and controls the se...

INTRODUCTION Minority populations, including those from rural areas, continue to be underrepresented in medical schools despite increased efforts to recruit them. Although family physicians are more highly represented in rural areas, and medical students from rural areas are more likely to return to rural areas, relatively few medical students enter the specialty of family medicine in the USA. ...