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Rural Caregiving in the United States
Springer 2011; US$ 99.99Caregivers living in rural areas face daunting obstacles. In addition to the isolation and anxiety that many caregivers across the country experience, rural caregivers must also cope with limited access to uncoordinated resources and severe shortages of trained professionals. Although many research, policy, and practice upgrades have been made in response... more...
Increasing Access to Health Workers in Remote and Rural Areas through Improved Retention
World Health Organization 2010; US$ 25.00Half the world's people currently live in rural and remote areas. The problem is that most health workers live and work in cities. This imbalance is common to almost all countries and poses a major challenge to the nationwide provision of health services. Its impact, however, is most severe in low income countries. There are two reasons for this.... more...
Rural Populations and Health
Wiley 2012; US$ 90.00Health-related disparities remain a persistent, serious problem across the nation's more than 60 million rural residents. Rural Populations and Health provides an overview of the critical issues surrounding rural health and offers a strong theoretical and evidence-based rationale for rectifying rural health disparities in the United States. This... more...
Country Doctor
Constable & Robinson 2013; US$ 11.65Have you ever had to decide what to do with a very large dead body on a Mexican beach, or an unidentified corpse by a Devonian cowshed when the herd is due in for milking? How should you deal with a drug runner rescued from the Caribbean Sea when he pulls a gun on you? And how would you react if one of your patients was abducted by aliens?If you are... more...
Improving Access and Efficiency in Public Health Services
SAGE India 2010; US$ 25.95This book presents a systematic mid-term evaluation of the processes of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Indias biggest rural health programme. Data from District Level Health Surveys (DLHS), National Family Health Surveys (NFHS), and Sample Registration System (SRS) as well as primary data collected from field surveys and interviews... more...
Appalachian Health and Well-Being
The University Press of Kentucky 2012; US$ 50.00Appalachians have been characterized as a population with numerous disparities in health and limited access to medical services and infrastructures, leading to inaccurate generalizations that inhibit their healthcare progress. Appalachians face significant challenges in obtaining effective care, and the public lacks information about both their healthcare... more...
Policies, Plans, and People
University of California Press 1989; US$ 31.95Judith Justice uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how anthropologists and planners can combine their expertise to make health care programs culturally compatible with the populations they serve. more...
Healthy Villages
World Health Organization 2002; US$ 19.80Health is determined by many factors, including income, environmental conditions - such as access to adequate sanitation and safe water supplies - individual behaviour, and health services. More than half of the world's population lives in villages and rural areas and most of those without access to safe water sources or basic sanitation are rural... more...
Social Determinants of Indigenous Health
Allen & Unwin 2007; US$ 45.40A systematic overview of the impact of social and political factors on the health of Australia's Indigenous population. Australia's Aboriginal and Islander groups suffer ?Fourth World' standards of health: this book explains the causes for such poor healt more...
Rural Women's Health
Springer Publishing Company 2005; US$ 79.00Rural Women's Health encompasses the breadth and depth of the unique physical and psychological needs facing rural women throughout the United States and Canada, and identifies positive interventions and outcomes. Raymond T. Coward, founding editor of The Journal of Rural Health , along with five leading practitioners and researchers with contributions... more...









