The development of local community associations in small rural towns in Victoria has engendered a sense of local self-governing that can be described as a shift from government to governance. This 'more flexible' approach extends beyond government, and the place of its agencies, to a greater ...
Not understanding how country towns operate or a country town under great strains of a resource boom” Rural community representative. This quote illustrates the mismatch in housing resources to population and community needs. Another participant commented about the importance of environmental and social...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook RUF (redirected fromRural-urban fringe) Wikipedia AcronymDefinition RUFRevolutionary United Front(Sierra Leone) RUFReformed University Fellowship(USA, Presbyterian Church in America campus ministry) ...
People in rural areas are generally more dependent on public and other health care services than on private services, compared with people living in urban areas. There is limited evidence of substantial intra-urban disparities, with inequality being worse in smaller urban settlements (i.e. towns)...
Hodge A, Patterson A, Brown W, Ireland P, Giles G: The Anti Cancer Council of Victoria FFQ: relative validity of nutrient intakes compared with weighed food records in young to middle‒aged women in a study of iron supplementation. Aust NZ J Publ Heal. 2000, 24 (6): 576-583. 10.111...
Place is indeed at the centre of book town tourism, yet in towns like Clunes, whose place is this? We seek to better understand how festivals become a mechanism to address and express community concerns about inclusion, renewal and sustainability. Festivals are inherently about celebrating ...
Mortality–temperature relationships in small regional towns in Victoria, Australia, were used to ascertain whether the effects of high ambient temperatures documented in the literature for major population centres in Europe and America are also noted in small rural communities in Australia. The establish...
There is growing acceptance that the fortunes of the non-metropolitan Australian ecumene are increasingly dependent on the interchanges of population, capital and ideas between cities and rural towns and regions. Yet we know relatively little about the push and pull forces drawing city residents into...
--REGIONAL EVIDENCE FROM VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA This is not the romanticism so often pilloried as some sort of hankering after an idealised past or a ruralised future or as a form of indulgent introspection, but rather the romanticism that consists in the attempt to reconfigure the world through ...
prevalence of diabetes in adults in small and medium sized towns in a part of rural Victoria Participants were usual residents, aged ≥25 years, from randomly selected households in the crossroads undiagnosed disease study (CUDS: six small rural towns and their regional center in rural Victoria)....