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Electrifying Rural Guatemala: Central Policy and Rural Reality [PDF]

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 2005
Towards the end of the 20th century Guatemala embarked on an ambitious rural electrification plan: central planners in the Ministry of Energy and Mines hope to connect 90% of homes to the national electricity grid by 2004. Energy for the increased demand comes from floating power plants anchored in Guatemala's Pacific port, a new coal-fired power plant,
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Rural practice. Preference, perception, and reality

Archives of Family Medicine, 1993
Numerous studies have approached the geographic maldistribution of physicians in the United States by evaluating factors associated with rural placement and retention, with "rural" being variably defined. To our knowledge, no one has qualitatively investigated physicians' perceptions of rurality or how closely those perceptions fit commonly used ...
P P, Hartlaub, R L, Gordon
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Realities of Disaster Preparedness in Rural Hospitals

Disaster Management & Response, 2006
Disaster preparedness has always been an area of major concern for the medical community, but recent world events have prompted an increased interest. The health care system must respond to disasters of all types, whether the incidents occur in urban or rural settings.
William G, Manley, Paul M, Furbee, Jeffery H, Coben, Sharon K, Smyth, Daniel E, Summers, Ronald C, Althouse, Rodney L, Kimble, Aaron T, Kocsis, James C, Helmkamp   +8 more
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The reality of rurality: Rural parents' experiences of early years services

Health & Place, 2012
This study examined the experiences of rural parents accessing early years support services through a specific service delivery strategy in Ontario, Canada. Nine focus groups and five interviews were conducted in two rural communities as part of a larger research project exploring parent experiences in both urban and rural communities.
Kerri, Graham, Kathryn, Underwood
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Rural Women's Economic Realities

Journal of Women & Aging, 1998
The economic position of many elders has improved over the past few decades. Several groups of elders remain disadvantaged, however, including nonmetropolitan elders and women in any setting. This study examines differences in household income and poverty rates for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan women ages 55 and over in 1970, 1980 and 1990 ...
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Rural Reality

2016
Appalachian people have faced stereotyping of their culture and region in popular culture, news media, and art for generations. For more than 150 years, images of the region have been extracted by outside media makers and disseminated widely, solidifying the “hillbilly” stereotype in the national lexicon.
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Myth and Reality in Rural Counselling*

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 1996
The authors conduct a dialogue that links three distinctive perspectives on the issues and dilemmas involved in counselling within small/remote communities. The often‐identified issues of survival in isolation, deprivation of resources, visibility, boundary maintenance, rural conservatism, and rigid gender prescriptions are considered from the ...
Hugh Crago, Ruth Sturmey, Jenny Monson
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461 The Reality of Virtual Reality for Rural Surgeon Augmented Reality Training

British Journal of Surgery
Abstract Aim Virtual-reality (VR) and augmented-reality (AR) training workshops were undertaken in New Delhi and new surgical training content generated. This study aimed to gauge the perspective of medical students and rural Indian surgeons regarding VR and AR training.
G Khera, J Gnanaraj, A Mishra, R Vohra, J Dhanda   +4 more
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Rural Realities 

Anesthesiology, 1998
J A, Aldrete, V T, Aldrete
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The Reality of Resistance: The Experiences of Rural Parturient Women

Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 2006
The closure of many local maternity services has given rise to contemporary realities of care for many rural parturient women in Canada, which, in turn, determines their experience of birth. To date, we do not have an understanding of the realities influencing the birthing experiences of rural parturient women.
Jude, Kornelsen, Stefan, Grzybowski
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