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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...
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...
Female Genital Cutting, Women's Health, and Development
World Bank Publications 2007; US$ 9.99This strategy paper provides a comprehensive understanding of the issue of female genital mutilation/cuttingscope,challenges, opportunities, best practices, and how communities, development agencies, and national governments can work together to eliminate the practices on the ground. The World Bank is committed to assisting governments in ending... 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Rural Health
eContent Management Pty Ltd 2010; US$ 126.50?Rural Health? presents a range of analyses that question how well rural health models, services and knowledge improve health and wellbeing. It highlights the complexity of Aboriginal health, reiterating that there are no quick answers but a long process of developing cultural security and inclusion is required. In doing so, this title acknowledge... more...
Rural Health Symposium: Patients and Practitioners
eContent Management Pty Ltd 2004; US$ 99.00This Symposium on Rural Health: Patients and Practitioners offers an important sociological analysis of issues peculiar to rural health and health care and contains important implications for the issue of how to sustain rural medical practices. more...









