Much of the ICT interventions for rural transformation are exogenous in nature (development from outside), in the sense that they use a “push” approach towards development, without considering the nature and problems of an individual member of the rural community. Information and knowledge transactions, especially with dis-empowered people and groups, are a complex process and ICT needs to be a...

background: almost one third of the global population is living in developing south asia where disease occurrence is high especially in rural areas and people are unaware of water-borne diseases and cost of illness. methods: the quantitative approach involved questionnaire based study (n=50 households). the community awareness, the occurrence of water-borne diseases with related cost of illness...

The development of a community is reflected in the efforts designed to improve the economic and social atmosphere, and the quality of life of the community. Nevertheless, community development specialists have focused on economics, ignoring other aspects of development and the interrelation of such. The goals of this proposal are: 1) To study how the design of robotic artifacts and the use of o...

OBJECTIVES To characterize rural health care and pharmacy recruitment and retention issues explored in Canadian pharmacy strategic guidelines and Canadian Faculties of Pharmacy curricula; compare the availability of pharmacy workforce across Canadian jurisdictions; and identify models for potential collaborations between universities and rural pharmacies in the North. METHODS Review of Canadi...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to investigate the health effects of economic changes in a rural and industrial community. DESIGN This was a historical cohort study with retrospective information on exposure and information on health outcome from a mailed questionnaire (response rate 82.5%). SETTING An industrial and a rural community in northern Sweden. PARTICIPANTS Participants included all...

Three strategies designed to maximize attendance at educational sessions on chronic disease medication safety in older adults in rural areas were implemented sequentially and compared for cost-effectiveness: 1) existing community groups and events, 2) formal advertisement, and 3) employer-based outreach. Cost-effectiveness was measured by comparing overall cost per attendee recruited and number...

6 10 16 23 28 36 44 56 64 4 T here continues to be considerable discussion regarding the vital roles that good schools and a well-educated population play in promoting sound, local economic and community development activities. Certainly, it is commonsense that quality schools produce good citizens and skilled workers, and that employers are attracted to places having highly-educated labor. Rec...

BACKGROUND The economic impact of a family physician practicing family medicine in rural Alabama is $1,000,000 a year in economic benefit to the community. The economic benefit of those rural family physicians practicing obstetrics has not been studied. This study was designed to determine whether there was any added economic benefit of rural family physicians practicing obstetrics in rural, un...