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RURALITY AND POPULARITY OF VILLAGE TOURISM RELATION ON SUMENEP VILLAGE TOURISM - INDONESIA [PDF]

open access: yesGeo 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rurality, Locality and Industrial Change: A Micro-scale Investigation of Manufacturing Growth in the District of Leominster [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Geographers have recently sought to understand countryside change by examining economic restructuring and its impact on local social coherences. However, despite renewed interest in the locale, many investigations of the rural economy have been at a ...
Yarwood, R
core   +2 more sources

Disentangling Social Determinants of Health and Rurality in Head and Neck Cancer 2‐Year Mortality

open access: yesOTO 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   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rurality or distance to care and the risk of homelessness among Afghanistan and Iraq veterans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
INTRODUCTION: To date, no studies have examined the relationship of rurality and distance to nearest VA facility to risk of homelessness. METHODS: We examined differences in the rate of homelessness within a year of a Veteran's first encounter with
Brignone, Emily   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Caregiving burden of informal caregivers of older adults with advanced cancer: The effects of rurality and education.

open access: yesJournal of Geriatric Oncology, 2021
OBJECTIVES Rural-urban disparities in the experiences of caregivers of older adults with advanced cancer may exist. This study examined factors associated with caregiver mastery and burden and explored whether rural-urban disparities in caregiver ...
Huiwen Xu   +19 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Malnutrition Risk, Rurality, and Falls among Community-Dwelling Older Adults

open access: yesThe Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging, 2021
We aimed to evaluate if malnutrition and rurality are associated with fall risk and future falls in community-dwelling older adults. Prospective Cohort. Community, Vermont.
C. Eckert   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An exclusive countryside? Crime concern, social exclusion and community policing in two English villages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Using the example of two English villages, this paper examines whether rural crime concern is evidence of an 'exclusive society' in the countryside. Specific attention is given to concerns expressed by residents as part of a consultation exercise to ...
Yarwood, R
core   +2 more sources

US trends in mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic depend on rurality.

open access: yesRural and remote health, 2021
INTRODUCTION Face masks are widely recommended as a COVID-19 prevention strategy. State mask mandates have generally reduced the spread of the disease, but decisions to wear a mask depend on many factors.
George Pro   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal discordance in five common measures of rurality for US counties and applications for health disparities research in older adults

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

On making disability in rural places more visible: challenges and opportunities [Introduction to a special issue] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This essay prefaces a special issue of the Journal of Rural Studies (JRS) concerned with a sub-field of inquiry that might be termed the rural geography of disability, addressing multiple dimensions of disability, physical and mental, associated with ...
Chouinard, Vera   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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