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Rural area

About: Rural area is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 54441 publications have been published within this topic receiving 815420 citations. The topic is also known as: countryside & rural place.


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TL;DR: This study illustrates the use of systematic elicitation techniques for cultural domain analysis, including free listing, pile sorting and severity ratings to identify salient illness categories and perceptions of illness severity among rural Bangladeshi women.
Abstract: This study illustrates the use of systematic elicitation techniques for cultural domain analysis, including free listing, pile sorting and severity ratings to identify salient illness categories and perceptions of illness severity among rural Bangladeshi women. The complementary strategies of in-depth interviewing and collecting of case studies were also employed for delineating explanatory models. Illnesses in the domain of women's reproductive health-for example, reproductive tract infections (RTI)-were found to be among the most salient and serious health problems for which care is sought. Data gathered through pile sorting demonstrate that women in this rural community have clear conceptions of illness groups, with different strategies of treatment for various categories. While concerns relating to reproductive tract infections, including those attributed to sexual transmission, and vaginal discharge are important to women, none of the available health facilities is particularly attuned to addressing ...

23 citations

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TL;DR: Differences between urban and rural areas, northern and southern provinces and by education of the women were analysed, finding that women with secondary education had a significantly higher age at first birth than those with little or no education.
Abstract: Data from the 4172 women aged 15-49 interviewed in the 1988 Vietnamese Demographic and Health Survey were used to examine age at marriage, marriage to first birth intervals and age at first birth. Differences between urban and rural areas, northern and southern provinces and by education of the women were analysed. The majority of the women had their first birth before age 20, but women with secondary education had a significantly higher age at first birth than those with little or no education, and women from the north had a significantly higher age at first birth than women from the south. Rural women and those with little or no education married at significantly younger ages than urban women and those with secondary education; these education effects were confirmed in a rural subsample of women. Women from rural areas and from the north had significantly shorter marriage to first birth intervals than urban women and those from the south, but there were no significant effects related to education.

23 citations

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TL;DR: Rural Iowa general surgeons perform a large volume of surgery and more subspecialty procedures than do their non-rural counterparts, and surgical residency programs need to more adequately train residents interested in rural general surgery in an effort to reduce the shortage of rural general surgeons.

23 citations

01 May 2004
TL;DR: In the early 1980s, when fast rural growth emerged from institutional reforms, including institutional changes in land holding, production, distribution and procurement prices, the poverty rate in China rapidly halved from 49 to 24 percent at the $1/day income level, and the number of rural poor declined from 250 million in 1978 to 125 million in 1985, measured at the official poverty line as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: During the post-1978 reform period, China dramatically reduced large-scale poverty through specific government reform policies and rapid economic growth. Using the official poverty line, the number of poor people is estimated to have fallen from about 200 million in 1981 to 28 million in 2002. Alternatively, using the World Bank's $1/day income measure, the number of poor is estimated to have dropped from about 490 million to 88 million over the same period, a decline in poverty incidence from 49 percent in 1981 to 6.9 percent in 2002. China's large-scale poverty reduction has been achieved mainly through rapid economic growth. Real GDP grew at an average of 9.4 percent per year in the period 1979.2003. This increase was realized through continuous reform and structural changes that included shifts from central planning to markets and from agriculture to manufacturing and services, and opening up to international trade and knowledge transfer. Poverty in China is a rural phenomenon (at the beginning of the 1980s, absolute poverty in the urban population was 0.3 percent vs. 28 percent of the rural population.) Because rural-urban migration is limited, growth in rural areas has been most important to reducing poverty. In the early 1980s, when fast rural growth emerged from institutional reforms-including institutional changes in land holding, production, distribution and procurement prices-the poverty rate in China rapidly halved from 49 to 24 percent at the $1/day income level, and the number of rural poor declined from 250 million in 1978 to 125 million in 1985, measured at the official poverty line.

23 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20241
20231,155
20222,344
20212,209
20202,709
20192,619