The present study measures levels of stigma within health care settings in urban and rural Gujarat, in an attempt to understand how this may have contributed to the state's increasing HIV incidence. Two sites were studied: a rural hospital in Bardoli and an urban hospital in Surat. HIV-associated stigma among healthcare workers (N=170) was assessed using a Stigma Index. Overall, analyses sugges...

objectives: to investigate the differences in death after receiving emergency services in traffic accidents between urban and rural regions, and decompose factors of the gap in langerood, northern iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in langrood, northern iran during a 1-year period from 2013 to 2014. the hospital data of traffic crashes were used. data contained those patien...

The difficulties of meeting the medical and psychological needs of individuals living in rural areas have long been recognized. In Pre-Colonial days, a network of native healers attempted to meet the needs of rural populations, and when the Colonists arrived from England, the first formally trained physicians arrived in America as well. As the colonists moved westward, physicians followed, faci...

background: helicobacter pylori ( h. pylori ) is a global pathogen with a widely varied prevalence (30%-80%) among different countries and populations. this study aims to determine the prevalence of h. pylori in the population of arak, iran. materials and methods: this was an epidemiologic cross-sectional population-based study with multistage sampling. the population of arak according to the 2...

in this study myer index was calculated for six groups of a sample of urban and rural population of iran, classified by population size. the data used were information collected on 146116 urban and 158124 rural populations, for estimation of death, birth and growth rates in iran. the results indicate: the range of the index varies between 23.14-68.06 for women and 28.41-69.62 for men (urban or ...

OBJECTIVES China is facing the unprecedented challenge of rapidly increasing rural-to-urban migration. Migrants are in a vulnerable state when they attempt to access to primary care services. This study was designed to explore rural-to-urban migrants' experiences in primary care, comparing their quality of primary care experiences under different types of medical institutions in Guangzhou, Chin...