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Spatiotemporal discordance in five common measures of rurality for US counties and applications for health disparities research in older adults [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2015 Introduction: Rural populations face numerous barriers to health, including poorer health care infrastructure, access to care, and other sociodemographic factors largely associated with rurality. Multiple measures of rurality used in the biomedical and
Steven A. Cohen +2 more
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Characterizing rurality using the All of Us Research Program data. [PDF]
PLoS ONERural communities experience disproportionately higher rates of chronic diseases, less access to healthcare services, and poorer health outcomes compared to their urban counterparts in the United States.
Michael Bradfield +2 more
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Collecting Older Lesbians' and Gay Men's Stories of Rural Life in South West England and Wales: "We Were Obviously Gay Girls ... (So) He Removed His Cow From Our Field" [PDF]
Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2013 The emerging recollections, perceptions and storied biographies of older lesbians and gay men and their experiences in rural Britain are presented in the article, alongside consideration of the multiple qualitative methodologies used in a unique multi ...
Kip Jones +3 more
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DEFINING AND DEVELOPING A RURALITY INDEX FOR TURKEY [PDF]
Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, 2022 Correctly defining the term “rural” and determining the rurality level of provinces/regions are very important for effective regional/rural planning. A well- defined and consistent rurality index will be useful in putting forward the current rurality
Onur Sungur, Merve Kılınç Yılmaz
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Structural Analysis of Agricultural Rurality Evolution in Isfahan Province [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rūstāyī, 2022 Rural areas have experienced various evolutions in terms of structure and function, causing some vagueness regarding rural conceptions and identities. Agriculture, as the most fundamental rural activity, has had severe evolutions.
Bita Aslani Sangdeh, Abbas Amini
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Redai dili, 2021 With the development of the economy and the improvement in quality of life, the need for leisure tourism is increasing. Rural tourism, which can fulfil people's need to stay away from the city and pursue leisure, has been favored in recent years.
Wang Mingjie +5 more
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Rural perception on tourists’ willingness to revisit in rural tourism: a study of Ma Wei Yi folk culture village, Shaanxi Province, China [PDF]
Ciência Rural, 2023 : The development of rural tourism destinations in China is confronting multiple issues, including blind expansion and a repetitive developmental model, causing the sector to enter a vicious competition cycle.
Xu Ting, Choong Weng Wai, Li Ting
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BMC Health Services Research, 2021 Background Rural-urban health care disparities are an important topic in health services research. Hence, developing valid and reliable tools to measure rurality is needed to support high quality research. However, Japan, has no index to measure rurality
Makoto Kaneko +4 more
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Measuring rurality in health services research: a scoping review
BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Purpose This study is a scoping review of the different methods used to measure rurality in the health services research (HSR) literature. Methods We identified peer-reviewed empirical studies from 2010–2020 from seven leading HSR journals, including the
Robin Danek +4 more
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Complexity, 2020 Rurality highlights the intrinsic differences between urban and rural communities. The comprehensive rurality evaluation index system is difficult to obtain indicators that reflect purely rural or urban characteristics; in addition, most of the data used
Zhiheng Yang, Chenxi Li
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