Rural Health Provisioning

Author : Aderemi Suleiman Ajala
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Child health services
ISBN : 3631590237

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The slow response of maternal and child health care problems to control strategies in Nigeria suggests that the health sector requires more holistic study. This study focuses on case-specifics of the affected communities and examines the incidence of maternal and child health care from entire cultural domain of the focused communities. The rural communities of Osun state in Nigeria are the object of the study, where the local conception of maternal and child health was examined. Similarly, the local people's perception of maternal and child health was identified and various attitudes and practices affecting health care provisioning in the rural communities of Osun state were similarly analysed. Relying on ethnographic methods of data collection, the text establishes that certain local attitudes are constraints against equitable access to maternal and child health care facilities. It also establishes that there are some other local practices which promote good health of the rural mothers and their children. Specific findings show that illiteracy and low level of economic activities suffered by mothers were the major causes of maternal and child health care problems in rural communities.

Author : LaVonne Straub,Norman Walzer
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0275943151

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Rural Health Care by LaVonne Straub,Norman Walzer Pdf

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the current rural health environment by sorting topics into coverage of the demand for rural health, the supply of resources (facilities and personnel), the broad application of technology, and the roles of government policies and rural sociology. A major purpose is to guide those involved in decision making and planning to insure continued provision of health care for rural residents. A unique feature is the integration of innovative approaches throughout the work; there is a recognition that several rural institutions are undergoing transition and that fresh approaches are critical. This work will be of interest to scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners in rural health care, health care facilities, and health care management.

Author : Carol Adaire Jones
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781437921540

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Health Status and Health Care Access of Farm and Rural Populations by Carol Adaire Jones Pdf

Rural residents have higher rates of age-adjusted mortality, disability, and chronic disease than their urban counterparts. Contributing negatively to the health status of rural residents are their lower socioeconomic status, higher incidence of both smoking and obesity, and lower levels of physical activity. Contributing negatively to the health status of farmers are the high risks from workplace hazards; contributing positively are farmers¿ higher socioeconomic status, lower incidence of smoking, and more active lifestyle. Both farm and rural populations experience lower access to health care along the dimensions of affordability, proximity, and quality, compared with their non-farm and urban counterparts. Charts and graphs.

Author : Beverly Leipert,Belinda Leach,Wilfreda Thurston
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781442662520

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Rural Women's Health by Beverly Leipert,Belinda Leach,Wilfreda Thurston Pdf

The well-being of rural communities affects the well-being of those who reside in towns and cities because of rural-urban connections through food, drinking water, infectious disease, extreme environmental events, recreation, and for many, retirement residence. In rural areas themselves, women play a critical role in the health of their families and communities, yet women’s health is often marginalized or ignored. There have been limited studies to date about rural women and health in Canada. Filling an important gap in scholarship, this collection identifies priority issues that must be addressed to ensure these women’s well-being and offers innovative theoretical and methodological ideas for improvement. Rural Women’s Health integrates perspectives from rural practitioners, residents, and scholars in a variety of fields, including nursing, sociology, anthropology, and geography, to tackle issues relevant to diverse settings across the country. As such, it presents a national perspective on the nature of women’s health while respecting internal and regional diversity, as well as viewpoints from international scholarship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Rural health services
ISBN : OCLC:506287285

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Author : MUTEL
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781475718041

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Medical Practice in Rural Communities by MUTEL Pdf

Despite the urbanization of the United States, the rural population exceeds 60 million, and the provision of health services to these people remains a difficult problem. This volume addresses one crucial aspect of that problem-the task of attracting physicians to rural medical practice. It does this by carefully analyzing the special health problems and the general features of rural society in which the young doctor would be working. Rural health needs have been recognized in America for wen over a century. In response, many organized health programs have, in fact, improved the situation. Compared to 1930, the present coverage of rural counties by public health agencies has been greatly extended. Thanks to the Hill-Burton Act of 1946, the availability of general hospital beds has become virtually equalized among the states with varying degrees of rurality. Federally subsidized and locally organized health programs are serving migratory workers, American Indians, the people of Appalachia, and other rural groups. Voluntary health insurance covers millions of rural families, even though the extent of this economic protection is less than among urban families. Medicare helps to protect the rural aged, as it does the urban. Medicaid finances health services for the rural poor far more effectively than the purely local welfare programs of 1930. There is no question, then, about the improvement in rural health resources and services in America over the last 50 years.

Author : Lois Wright,Nan E. Johnson
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0813800102

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Critical Issues In Rural Health by Lois Wright,Nan E. Johnson Pdf

A large sector of the United States (U.S.) population. About 22 percent of Americans, approximately 55 million people, are considered “rural” residents. Rural people have a unique set of health issues; they experience social, cultural, and economic disadvantages that can increase their risk for adverse health consequences. The first text of its kind, Critical Issues in Rural Health, provides comprehensive sociological study of rural health and health care trends in the United States, by examining the health and well-being of rural populations at all stages of life. Editors Glasgow, Morton, and Johnson present integrative reviews of theory and research on rural health issues, with the most up-to-date statistics of empirical research. This informative and groundbreaking text goes beyond the scope of previous studies and emphasizes differences between rural and urban areas in health and health care. Surprisingly little research has examined the differences in disability and morality rates by residence or degree of rurality-this book does. In additon, contributing authors report on the impact of age or life stage, race and ethnicity, social class, rural occupations, and community structure on various health issues.

Author : Beverly D. Leipert,Belinda Leach,Wilfreda E. Thurston
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781442613485

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Rural Women's Health by Beverly D. Leipert,Belinda Leach,Wilfreda E. Thurston Pdf

The well-being of rural communities affects the well-being of those who reside in towns and cities because of rural-urban connections through food, drinking water, infectious disease, extreme environmental events, recreation, and for many, retirement residence. In rural areas themselves, women play a critical role in the health of their families and communities, yet women's health is often marginalized or ignored. There have been limited studies to date about rural women and health in Canada. Filling an important gap in scholarship, this collection identifies priority issues that must be addressed to ensure these women's well-being and offers innovative theoretical and methodological ideas for improvement. Rural Women's Health integrates perspectives from rural practitioners, residents, and scholars in a variety of fields, including nursing, sociology, anthropology, and geography, to tackle issues relevant to diverse settings across the country. As such, it presents a national perspective on the nature of women's health while respecting internal and regional diversity, as well as viewpoints from international scholarship.

Author : Joseph N. Inungu,Mark J. Minelli
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781284229899

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Foundations of Rural Public Health in America by Joseph N. Inungu,Mark J. Minelli Pdf

Foundations of Rural Public Health in America spans a wide variety of important issues affecting rural public health, including consumer and family health, environmental and occupational health, mental health, substance abuse, disease prevention and control, rural health care delivery systems, and health disparities. Divided into five sections, the book covers understanding rural communities, public health systems and policies for rural communities, health disparities in rural communities and among special populations, and advancing rural health including assessment, planning and intervention. Written by a multidisciplinary team of experienced scholars and practitioners, this authoritative text comprehensively covers rural health issues today.

Author : Jacob C. Warren,K. Bryant Smalley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1785393103

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Rural Public Health by Jacob C. Warren,K. Bryant Smalley Pdf

Rural residents face distinct health challenges due to economic conditions, cultural/behavioral factors, and health provider shortages that combine to impose striking disparities in health outcomes among rural populations. This comprehensive text about the issues of rural public health is the only book to focus on rural health from the perspectives of public health and prevention.

Author : Swarna Sadasivam Vepa,Brinda Viswanathan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000061154

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Undernutrition, Agriculture and Public Provisioning by Swarna Sadasivam Vepa,Brinda Viswanathan Pdf

Using quantitative techniques, this volume provides empirical evidence on the crucial role of public provisioning of food, water, sanitation and health care in reducing undernutrition among women and children in India. The linkages are cogently explored and connected to the sustainable development goals. Key data comes from recent large secondary sources at district, household and individual levels and the econometric methodologies are clearly explained. Taken as a whole, it highlights the effects of public provisioning on malnutrition and identifies the relative importance of agricultural growth in resolving the nutrition problems in rural and semi-urban areas of India. This edited volume will be valuable reading for advanced graduate students, researchers and practitioners in development economics, development studies, and nutrition and public health.

Author : R. C. Annis,Frances Elizabeth Racher,Marian Beattie,Brandon University. Rural Development Institute
Publisher : Brandon, Man. : Rural Development Institute, Brandon University
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Rural health
ISBN : 1895397782

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Rural Community Health and Well-being : a Guide to Action by R. C. Annis,Frances Elizabeth Racher,Marian Beattie,Brandon University. Rural Development Institute Pdf

Author : M.K. Thite,Dr. Jitendra Ahirrao
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312760219

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Agriculture, Cooperative And Rural Development by M.K. Thite,Dr. Jitendra Ahirrao Pdf

Author : Amita Singh,Eduardo T. Gonzalez,Stanley Bruce Thomson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788132207603

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Millennium Development Goals and Community Initiatives in the Asia Pacific by Amita Singh,Eduardo T. Gonzalez,Stanley Bruce Thomson Pdf

The book brings together implementation studies from the Asia Pacific countries in the context of the deadline of 2015 for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The contributors to this volume are scholars belonging to the Network of Asia Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance (NAPSIPAG). NAPSIPAG is the only non-West governance research network presently located at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi after having shifted from its original location at INTAN (Government of Malaysia) at Kuala Lumpur in 2009. ‘Implementation’ is a less understood but a much debated area of governance research. It requires micro-level analysis of government agencies, service delivery departments and stakeholders on one hand and its national and global policy level connections on the other. Implementation studies are above disciplinary divides and subsequent disjunctions which inhibit explorations on policy downslides or failures. The studies relate to the new initiatives which governments across the region have undertaken to reach out to the MDG targets agreed upon in 2000. The focus of analysis is the policy framework, local capacities of both the government agencies and people in drawing partnerships with relevant expert groups, ability to bring transparency and accountability measures in transactions for cost-effective results, leadership and sustainability dimensions which influence the functioning of local agencies. The book is especially important in the background of 15 voluminous Administrative Reforms Commission Reports accumulating dust in India and similar efforts lying unattended in many other countries of this region as well. Countries like Malaysia, which has focused upon ‘implementation strategies’ combined with timely evaluation and supervision of administrative agencies has almost achieved most of their committed MDGs. A special report of Malaysian efforts, initiates the debate of moving beyond the ‘best practice research’ in implementation arena. The central idea of this book is to demonstrate the role of communities in making governance effective and government responsive to the needs of people.

Author : Rajeswari S. Raina,Keshab Das
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788132239291

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Inclusive Innovation by Rajeswari S. Raina,Keshab Das Pdf

This book discusses the role of inclusive innovation for development in rural India. It uses the evidence of innovation in the context of skewed or limited livelihood options and multiple knowledge systems to argue that if inclusive innovation is to happen, the actors and the nature of the innovation system need reform. The book presents cases of substantive technological changes and institutional reforms enabling inclusive innovation in rural manufacturing, sustainable agriculture, health services, and the processes of technological learning in traditional informal networks, as well as in formal modern commodity markets. These cases offer lessons to enable learning and change within the state and formal science and technology (S&T) organizations. By focusing on these actors central to development economics and innovation systems framework, the book bridges the widening conceptual gaps between these two parallel knowledge domains, and offers options for action by several actors to enable inclusive innovation systems. The content is thus of value to a wide audience consisting of researchers, policy makers, NGOs and industry observers.