Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) comprise a significant portion of the infectious-disease burden among rural people in the Global South. Particular characteristics of ruralness-low-density settlements and poor infrastructure-make healthcare provision difficult, and remoteness, typically a characteristic of ruralness, often compounds the difficultly. Remoteness may also accelerate STI tran...

OBJECTIVES To determine disparities in rates, length of stay (LOS) and hospital costs of potentially preventable hospitalisations (PPH) for selected chronic conditions among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal South Australians (SA), then examine associations with area-level socioeconomic disadvantage and remoteness. SETTING Period prevalence study using linked, administrative public hospital recor...

Let $G$ be a connected graph. The Wiener index of graph is the sum distances between all unordered pairs vertices. We provide asymptotic formulae for maximum simple triangulations and quadrangulations with given connectivity, as order increases, make conjectures extremal based on computational evidence. If $\overline{\sigma}(v)$ denotes arithmetic mean from $v$ to other vertices $G$, then remot...

OBJECTIVE: Little is known about community remoteness in relation to birth outcomes among Indigenous populations. We assessed whether community remoteness matters for perinatal outcomes and infant mortality in Quebec First Nations communities. STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective cohort study of all births (n=11,033) to residents of First Nations communities in Quebec 1991-2000, using linked vital st...

INTRODUCTION There is growing evidence in Australia and elsewhere to indicate that prevalence rates of mental illness are no higher in rural and remote areas than in urban areas. However, it is generally perceived that people from rural and remote areas are at heightened risk of mental illness, because many psychosocial determinants of health are magnified by factors related to remoteness. In t...

OBJECTIVES To assess differentials in the poisoning rates of children aged 0-4 years according to residential location and geographical remoteness. DESIGN Cross sectional study based on hospitalizations. SETTING Australia. SUBJECTS Children aged 0-4 years admitted to hospital due to poisoning during the financial year 1996-97. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Crude rates of hospitalization. RESU...

A profile on a graph G is a finite sequence of vertices of G. The remoteness of a vertex u is the sum of distances to the vertices of the profile. The set of vertices that maximize (minimize) the remoteness is the antimedian (median) set of the profile. It is proved that for every connected graph G there exists a graph H such that G is a convex subgraph of H and V (G) is the antimedian set of t...