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Psychiatric standardized claim ratios by rurality and deprivation in Japan: A nationwide ecological study with contextual suicide mortality [PDF]

PCN Reports
Aim We examined whether rurality was associated with psychiatric standardized claim ratios computed using medical‐institution location, and how these patterns related to area deprivation and residence‐based suicide mortality in Japan.
Masahide Koda, Shuhei Nomura, Makoto Kaneko, Nahoko Harada   +3 more
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Rurality representation and changes in rural tourism destination. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Representation of rurality plays a crucial role in developing rural tourism. However, the connotations of rural destinations and how such representations shift across different social contexts remains unclear.
Xueting Hong, Zhenfang Huang, Xinyi Li, Yechen Zhang   +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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Rurality and Rural Tourism Attraction: Element Structure Identification and Cognitive Mechanism Analysis Based on Tourists' Perception

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, Meng Kai, Zhang Shize, Li Wenjie, Tang Jiaxin, Wang Chenlu   +5 more
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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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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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Systematic scoping review of factors and measures of rurality: toward the development of a rurality index for health care research in Japan

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, Ryuichi Ohta, Evelyn Vingilis, Maria Mathews, Thomas Robert Freeman   +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, Justin Blackburn, Marion Greene, Olena Mazurenko, Nir Menachemi   +4 more
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Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Rurality in Urban Suburb Town and Its Driving Factors Based on Land Use Transformation

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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Differences in depressive symptoms by rurality in Japan: a cross-sectional multilevel study using different aggregation units of municipalities and neighborhoods (JAGES)

International Journal of Health Geographics, 2021
Background Rurality can reflect many aspects of the community, including community characteristics that may be associated with mental health. In this study, we focused on geographical units to address multiple layers of a rural environment. By evaluating
Mariko Kanamori, Masamichi Hanazato, Daisuke Takagi, Katsunori Kondo, Toshiyuki Ojima, Airi Amemiya, Naoki Kondo   +6 more
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