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Being rural in rural health research

Health & Place, 2012
This paper explores ways that being from a rural background might influence the health research process and why this might occur. It draws on the research experiences of three 'generations' of rural health researchers to suggest rural background affects how researchers approach and conduct study, and how they interpret findings.
Farmer Jane   +2 more
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Education for rural practice in rural practice

Education for Primary Care, 2016
Despite the substantial differences between developing and developed countries, access is the major rural health issue. Studies in many countries have shown that the three factors most strongly associated with entering rural practice are: (1) a rural upbringing; (2) positive clinical and educational experiences in rural settings as part of ...
Strasser, Roger   +5 more
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URBAN EXODUS URBAN‐RURAL AND RURAL‐RURAL MIGRATION IN GOBIR (NIGER)*

Sociologia Ruralis, 1977
SUMMARYDuring the colonial period not the well known phenomenon of rural exodus but migration from town to country was typical for the province of Gobir and for Niger as a whole. We can as well observe considerable migration between villages. It is the aim of this article to analyze the political reasons for this phenomenon.
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Rural Families and Rural Health⋆

Journal of Family Studies, 2000
The role of the family in maintaining and promoting the health of rural Australians has been largely overlooked on the rural health research agenda. This article reports the results of a major study of 112 families from four small communities in the Mallee region in north-west Victoria.
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Rural Practitioner, Rural Practice

1983
We embrace conflicting images of the traditional rural physician. On the one hand, the old-time country doctor in solo practice symbolizes the idyllic, pastoral life we associate with our nation’s agricultural past. The horse-and-buggy doctor, the dependable general practitioner who delivered babies, kept their parents healthy, and comforted dying ...
Cornelia F. Mutel, Kelley J. Donham
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Rural Telepsychiatry

Psychiatric Services, 1998
Telepsychiatry is the use of telecommunications technology to connect patients and health care providers, permitting effective diagnosis, education, treatment, consultation, transfer of medical data, research, and other health care activities. Telepsychiatry has been used as a partial solution to the problem of limited psychiatric services for clinics ...
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Rural homelessness

2002
<i>Rural Homelessness</i> explores the shifting policy context of homelessness and social exclusion in relation to rural areas in the UK and other countries in the developed world. Drawing on the first comprehensive survey of rural homelessness in the UK, the book positions these findings within a wider international context.
Paul Cloke   +2 more
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Definitions, measures, and uses of rurality: A systematic review of the empirical and quantitative literature

Journal of Rural Studies, 2021
Jordan T Watson   +2 more
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Community assets and relative rurality index: A multi-dimensional measure of rurality

Journal of Rural Studies, 2023
Tuan Nguyen, Katherine Nelson
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