had unsafe water, 50 per cent, used common drinking cups, and only 1 per cent. had sanitary toilets. Since 1910 in New York State the rural death rate has exceeded the urban rate. Draper,3 of the U. S. Public Health Service, says: "It is a well known fact that the natural ...
INTRODUCTION: Previous research has reported rural-urban differences in health concerns and access issues. However, very little of this has concerned young people, and what has been published has been mainly from countries other than Aus... S Quine,D Bernard,M Booth,... - 《Rural & Remote ...
This paper presents the results of a longitudinal analysis of differences between urban and rural elderly persons in the use of hospital, nursing home, and physician services. Multivariate logistic and Tobit utilization models were estimated with data from the National Center for Health Statistics' Lon...
Morbidities showed few urban/rural differences. Concerns were mainly related to academic pressure. Respondents were eager users of health services; 73% were taking regular medication, but 52% had never attended a dentist. Previous article in issue Next article in issue Keywords Adolescence Health ...
Urbanization is found to have no effects on physical health, but it does have an adverse impact on the level of pleasure among Thai people. However, overall happiness levels of those who live in urban areas and those who live in rural areas are not statistically different....
Adolescence is an important stage of life when health behaviors and attitudes are established. The purpose of this research was to assess health risk behaviors among Guatemalan students in both an urban and rural school. Items were adapted from the Globa
The objective of the study was to examine and compare health status between rural and urban adults. The data are from a 1993 statewide probability-based te
Spatial inequalities in publicly provided goods such as healthcare facilities have substantial socioeconomic effects. Little is known, however, about why publicly provided goods diverge among urban and rural regions. This study exploits narrow parliamentary majorities in German states between 1950 and ...
While much literature reported the access of Chinese older migrants to health services, little was known about the differences among sub-groups of older adults, including urban-to-urban and rural-to-urban migrants, and urban and rural permanent residents. This study aimed to examine the access of...
BEIJING, May 19 (Xinhua) -- China has allocated 47 billion yuan (6.8 billion U.S. dollars) for building 1,390 county-level hospitals since 2016, in a bid to ensure that every county and urban district has at least one county-level hospital, Health News reported. ...