OBJECTIVES To elucidate current trends and geographical patterns in the sex ratio at birth and in the population aged under 20 in China and to determine the roles played by sex selective abortion and the one child policy. DESIGN Analysis of household based cross sectional population survey done in November 2005. SETTING All of China's 2861 counties. Population 1% of the total population, se...

nowadays the growth of deserts is one the most important problems in iran. this phenomenon has many reasons such as growth of population, global changes in the climates and many undesirable consequences such as the erosion of agricultural soils and immigration of rural people to urban regions mainly to the capital of iran, tehran. isfahan province is one of the semi-arid and desert regions in t...

rural sustainable development will be obtained through sound exploitation of environmental resources with an appropriate theoretical emphasis with protection and improvement of them for next generations. rural people behavior has important role in quality of these resources. this study was designed to develop a model of rural people environmental behavior. this study implemented in the west pro...

methodsusing time series data of national level (1967 to 2012 years), we explored the association between total fertility rate, gdp per capita, number of physician per 1000 populations, female labor force participation rate, percentage of people living in rural regions and mean years schooling for each people with infant mortality rate of iran. these data were obtained from central bank of isla...

Background: Noma is a disease of early childhood and is unknown to the health staff and community. Prevention and care become difficult. To help eliminate this disease in the population of Senegal, we conducted a study, which aim was to improve the fight against noma in our country. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted from 2012 to 2014 at the district level health, regions of Saint-L...

• People who live in rural and remote communities in Australia are more likely to be • Indigenous, particularly in the more remote areas. • Rural populations tend to have more children but fewer young adults. • More remote communities, many with significant Indigenous populations and a focus on the mining industry, tend to have more children, more people of working age (especially males) and fe...

INTRODUCTION People with intellectual disability (ID) comprise 2-3% of the Australian population. They mostly rely on their GP for primary health care. In rural areas where there are issues with health workforce shortages, there is a risk that people with ID may not get timely access to primary care or may not be aware of the range of healthcare services available to support them. International...

Telemedicine is one of the latest evolutions of ICT. Telemedicine can be used as the effective means of delivering the quality healthcare to the rural people. The resource availability is comparatively less for making the healthcare to reach rural masses. Telemedicine helps the rural people access the expert advice and reducing their health risks. Andhra Pradesh Vaidhya Vidhana Parishad (APVVP)...

CONTEXT HIV/AIDS is occurring with increasing frequency in rural areas of the United States, and people living with HIV/AIDS in rural communities report higher levels of perceived stigma than their more urban counterparts. The extent to which stigmatized individuals perceive stigma could be influenced, in part, by prevailing community attitudes. Differences between rural and more metropolitan c...

Dengue is one of the most important arthropod-borne viral infections affecting humans. Worldwide, an estimated 2.5 billion people are at risk of infection, approximately 975 million of whom live in urban and rural areas in tropical and sub-tropical countries[1]. In Thailand, dengue has been a significant public health problem for the past fifty years. Although the mortality rate has decreased i...