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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 +4 more
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The planning of rural health research: rurality and rural population issues [PDF]
Rural and Remote Health, 2005 Rurality and rural population issues require special consideration when planning both qualitative and quantitative health research in rural areas. The objective of this article was to explore the issues that require attention when planning the research.
McGrail, Matthew +5 more
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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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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 +6 more
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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 +8 more
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RURALITY AND POPULARITY OF VILLAGE TOURISM RELATION ON SUMENEP VILLAGE TOURISM - INDONESIA [PDF]
Geo Journal of Tourism and GeositesRurality 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
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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 +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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Race and Rurality in the Global Economy [PDF]
, 2018 Issues of migration, environment, rurality, and the visceral "politics of place" and "space" have occupied center stage in recent electoral political struggles in the United States and Europe, suffused by an antiglobalization discourse that has come to ...
Northover, Patricia +2 more
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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 +2 more
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