objective: to assess the prevalence and practice of fertility regulation methods among remote ethiopian communities of the hamer district, southern ethiopia. materials and methods: community-based cross sectional study was conducted in hamer district of south regional state of ethiopia. the study populations were women of reproductive age group residing in the district and purposively identifie...

A music drama, drunken queen, was definitely another climax maker in the night, dressing in Tan Dynasty robes, the queen and maid’s breath-taking beauty was stunning and led entire audience into another wonderland. Another highlight is the HIV-prevention theme game, which successfully intrigued most audience in HIV/AIDS awareness. ―Does HIV equals to AIDS?‖ This quiz led to many discussions and...

In recent years telecommunications services in remote Australia have received considerable attention, with services for indigenous desert communities a key focus. This project, known as Desert Interactive Remote Television (DIRT), uses existing community rebroadcast TV infrastructure to provide low cost multimedia messaging services for remote desert communities. The system architecture, key ap...

This paper gives a brief survey of remote sensing techniques from a viewpoint of pattern recongition and media understanding (PRMU). First we give a brief summary of remote sensing, and then introduce related work on both remote sensing image processing and some unique issues in remote sensing image processing. We moreover point out that the future direction of remote sensing is expected to be ...

OBJECTIVE To understand how community members of a remote First Nations community respond to an emergency first aid education programme. STUDY DESIGN A qualitative study involving focus groups and participant observation as part of a community-based participatory research project, which involved the development and implementation of a wilderness first aid course in collaboration with the comm...

This paper is an interview between Carrielynn Lund and Cree Elder Ruth Gladue on research and community resilience in her semi-remote, northern Alberta community. Ruth is a Cree Elder born "during the war years." She is married and has two girls, one boy, and "a few grandchildren." Ruth has worked as a Community Health Representative (CHR) and Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) for over forty years...

Recent pockets of rural innovation illustrate the mutual benefits that result when rural and remote (rural/remote) health researchers enter into active collaborations with decision-makers and other community-based stakeholders (eg advocacy groups) to address the health needs of rural/remote communities. Ideally, collaborations bring together ‘different perspectives and competencies to produce n...

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...