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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 Transformations and Rural Crime

2022
This book explicates the many ways that rural societies experience change: whether that be social change wrought by new economic ordering of the globe centring on technology; or institutional change resulting in the way in which the state and market penetrate civil society in rural areas.
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Rural Reading or Reading the Rural

Queensland Review, 2001
This article derives from an ongoing project to map regional print culture in twentieth-century Queensland. An essentially qualitative methodology combined survey questionnaires with selected follow-up interviews. Conscious of the focus on metropolitan reading within existing Australia Council studies (1990, 1995), we were keen to explore issues of ...
Cryle, Denis., Cosgrove, Betty, 1930-
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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, Paul Milbourne, Rebekah Widdowfield   +2 more
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Beyond rural clinical schools to “by rural, in rural, for rural”: immersive community engaged rural education and training pathways

Medical Journal of Australia, 2022
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Rural youths’ images of the rural

Journal of Rural Studies, 2006
Abstract Following the cultural turn within the social sciences, recent debates on how to conceptualise ‘the rural’ have focused on ‘rurality’ as a phenomenon produced by processes of social construction. This paper presents an empirical account of the outcome of these social construction processes through an analysis of how teenagers in a remote ...
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Definitions, measures, and uses of rurality: A systematic review of the empirical and quantitative literature

Journal of Rural Studies, 2021
Katherine S Nelson, Tuan D Nguyen, Jordan T Watson   +2 more
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