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Involving consumers in health research through the use of consumer panels: a scoping review

open access: yesResearch Involvement and Engagement
Background The importance of involving the lived experience of consumers in health research is increasingly well recognised. There are multiple models of consumer involvement, with consumer panels one way of efficiently organising the involvement of ...
Fiona Dangerfield   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do Patients Bypass Rural Hospitals? Determinants of Inpatient Hospital Choice in Rural California [PDF]

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Rural hospitals play a crucial role in providing healthcare to rural Americans, a vulnerable and underserved population; however, rural hospitals have faced threats to their financial viability and many have closed as a result.
José J Escarce, Kanika Kapur
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Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Canadian Rural Women’s Experiences with Rural Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioners

open access: yesOnline Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 2011
Background: In Canada, one in five women lives in a rural area. These rural women often experience different health challenges than urban women, including lower life expectancy, higher rates of disability and cancer, fewer available health care resources
Beverly D Leipert   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Utility-Theoretic Approach to Measuring Changes in US Rural Residents' Access to Hospital Services from 1980 to 1999 [PDF]

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Questions of access to hospital services figure centrally in rural-health policy debates, yet few analyses exist that measure the importance of changes in hospital access in rural areas of the US. Of the studies that measure changes in access to hospital
McNamara, Paul E.
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Predictors of incomplete immunisation in Victorian children

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2004
Objective: Using probabilistic record linkage, this study aimed to determine the predictors of incomplete immunisation in Victorian children. Methods: Records of all births in Victoria in 1998 were link ed with records from the Australian Childhood ...
Kerry Haynes, Christine Stone
doaj   +1 more source

Growth and poverty in rural India [PDF]

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Unlike most developing countries, consistent poverty measures for India can be tracked over a long time. The authors used 20 household surveys for rural India for the years 1958-90 to measure the effects of agricultural growth on rural poverty and on the
Datt, Gaurav, Ravallion, Martin
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