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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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Investigating Rurality as a Risk Factor for State and Trait Hopelessness in Hospitalized Patients With Ischemic Heart Disease

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021
Background Rurality and hopelessness are each associated with increased mortality in adults with ischemic heart disease (IHD), yet there is no known research examining rurality as a risk factor for hopelessness in patients with IHD.
Deb Bomgaars, Gwenneth A. Jensen, Lynn L. White, Kristin M. Van De Griend, Angela K. Visser, Madison P. Goodyke, Anna Luong, Nathan L. Tintle, Susan L. Dunn   +8 more
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RURALITY AND POPULARITY OF VILLAGE TOURISM RELATION ON SUMENEP VILLAGE TOURISM - INDONESIA [PDF]

Geo Journal of Tourism and Geosites
Rurality is a measurement to differentiate a rural from an urban; the lower the level of Rurality, the closer it is to urban characteristics, and vice versa.
Valdi FIRSTIANTO, Wido Prananing TYAS, Maya DAMAYANTI   +2 more
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Disentangling Social Determinants of Health and Rurality in Head and Neck Cancer 2‐Year Mortality

OTO Open, 2023
Social determinants of health (SDoH) and rurality are known factors that may influence outcomes in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).
Celina Virgen, Bryan Renslo, Tuleen Sawaf, Yelizaveta Shnayder, Kiran Kakarala, Andrés M. Bur, Kevin J. Sykes   +6 more
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Manufacturing Specialization in the Southeast: Rural Necessity, Rural Possibility, or Rural Vestige? [PDF]

Review of Regional Studies, 2000
This paper examines the validity of three alternative rationales for industrial specialization in rural areas. Manufacturing specialization can be explained by 1) the greater efficiency of very large plants; 2) the “localization” advantages identified with a number of firms in the same industry locating near each other; or 3) a strategy to gain ...
Lackey, Steven Brent, Wojan, Timothy R.
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Spatiotemporal discordance in five common measures of rurality for US counties and applications for health disparities research in older adults

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, Lauren eKelley, Allison E. Bell   +2 more
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71016 Defining "rurality": Rural-urban disparities among COPD patients in national VA data

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2021
IMPACT: Our research focuses on determining rural-urban disparities in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) management to improve COPD health outcomes in rural areas.
Arianne Baldomero, Ken M. Kunisaki, Patrick Hammett, David Nelson, Carrie Henning-Smith, Ann Bangerter, Chris H. Wendt, R. Adams Dudley   +7 more
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Multilevel modeling of county-level excessive alcohol use, rurality, and COVID-19 case fatality rates in the US.

PLoS ONE, 2021
ObjectiveReports of disparities in COVID-19 mortality rates are emerging in the public health literature as the pandemic continues to unfold. Alcohol misuse varies across the US and is related to poorer health and comorbidities that likely affect the ...
George Pro, Paul A Gilbert, Julie A Baldwin, Clare C Brown, Sean Young, Nickolas Zaller   +5 more
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The Role of Geography and Territorial Planning in the Spreading of SARS-CoV-2. A Case Study on the Peculiarities of the Swedish Rurality

Geography Notebooks, 2023
This article studies the spread of SARS-CoV-2 at a local level in Sweden and the role of geographic features that might have influenced the path of the virus. Then, the differences between rural and urban contexts have been analyzed.
Carlo Giunchi
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