Rural Health Services
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Improving quality in resource poor settings: observational study from rural Rwanda.

28 Oct 2009 PROBLEM: Hospitals in rural Africa, such as in Rwanda, often lack electricity, supplies, and staff. In our setting, basic care processes, such monitoring vital signs, giving drugs, and laboratory testing, were performed unreliably, resulting in ... Read more...

High-resolution sonography is effective in detection of soft tissue foreign bodies: experience from a rural Indian center.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: Patients with penetrating trauma or field injuries are commonly encountered by emergency physicians. Clinical examination by inspection or palpation can detect superficial foreign bodies (FBs), and radiographs can detect radiopaque FBs. ... Read more...

Increasing the medical school applicant pool: a key to training more rural physicians.

30 Aug 2009 CONTEXT: Workforce studies show shortages of physicians in many areas of the United States. These shortages are especially severe in states such as Kentucky with many rural counties and are predicted to worsen in the future unless there are changes ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Rural Health Services'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Improving quality in resource poor settings: observational study from rural Rwanda. 28 Oct 2009
• Addressing physician specialty maldistribution. 21 Sep 2009
• China's health system reform and medical education. 21 Sep 2009
• High-resolution sonography is effective in detection of soft tissue foreign bodies: experience from a rural Indian center. 30 Aug 2009
• Increasing the medical school applicant pool: a key to training more rural physicians. 30 Aug 2009
• Evaluation of an outside-the-cold-chain vaccine delivery strategy in remote regions of western China. 30 Aug 2009
• Rural surgery rotation during surgical residency. 30 Aug 2009
• Improving poor women's access to maternity care: Findings from a primary care intervention in Burkina Faso. 30 Aug 2009
• Evaluating the views of paramedics, cardiologists, emergency department physicians and nurses on advanced prehospital management of acute ST elevation myocardial infarction. 30 Aug 2009
• The impact of TennCare on hospital efficiency. 30 Aug 2009
• Bridging the gap: knowledge seeking and sharing in a virtual community of emergency practice. 18 Aug 2009
• Public health systems: a social networks perspective. 15 Aug 2009
• Politicians in apron: case study of rebel health services in Nepal. 8 Aug 2009
• Health staff priorities for the future development of telehealth in Western Australia. 5 Aug 2009
• Medicare program; inpatient rehabilitation facility prospective payment system for federal fiscal year 2010. Final rule. 5 Aug 2009
• Medicare program; hospice wage index for fiscal year 2010. Final rule. 4 Aug 2009
• "Women's autonomy and pregnancy care in rural India: a contextual analysis". Aug 2009
• Rural pathology under the microscope. 30 Jul 2009
• Identifying and addressing barriers to the use of enhanced primary care plans for chronic disease in rural practices. 30 Jul 2009
• What stresses remote area nurses? Current knowledge and future action. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Rural Health Services'

Definition: Health services, public or private, in rural areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care.

Descriptor UI: D019035

Alternative terms: Rural Health Services; Services, Rural Health; Health Services, Rural; Health Service, Rural; Rural Health Service; Service, Rural Health; Rural Health Center; Center, Rural Health; Centers, Rural Health; Health Center, Rural; Health Centers, Rural; Rural Health Centers;

Related Mesh Headings: Suburban Health Services;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.421.816;

History Note: 96

Technical Notes: IM; coord with specific health serv (IM); DF: RURAL HEALTH SERV