A study suggests that Jamaican sickle cell patients living in rural areas enjoy a higher quality of life than their urban counterparts.
... province, where rates of depression are twice that of their urban counterparts (though still much lower than in the West). They found that "instrumental support" – such as personal care and household ...
... of poverty and unemployment rates that are nearly double that of their urban counterparts, working families in rural Oregon tend to make less use of public assistance, especially ...
... at implementing surgical safety initiatives than their larger, urban counterparts, and are capable of providing a standard of surgical ... of care to their patients, equal to that given at urban and tertiary counterparts," Polk said. "The hospitals' willingness to commit ...
... at implementing surgical safety initiatives than their larger, urban counterparts, and are capable of providing a standard of surgical care that is at par with major hospitals that provide a comprehensive ...
... fell further behind their larger, private, and urban counterparts in adopting EHRs, further widening the gap between the two groups in receiving the benefits of health ...
... much larger service delivery areas than their urban counterparts," Allard said. The study found that 60 percent of the agencies administered programs in more than one community, which led to fragmentation ...
... teamed up to investigate the role of vegetation in the lives of urban and rural children. "We were interested in finding out if it is true ... in rural surroundings had closer contact with nature than their urban counterparts. For example, more rural children considered ...
... are less likely to have paid sick days than their urban counterparts. Rural workers who agree that workers ... have less access to paid sick days than their urban counterparts. Increasing access to paid sick ...
... neighborhoods.'" Suburban schools have not always had advantages over their urban counterparts. Rury and Saatcioglu studied census ... organization of suburban school districts, distinct from their urban counterparts, permitted exclusion of children without ...
... more diverse. And rural communities are following the lead of their urban counterparts, according to a U.S. 2010 policy brief. "What really stands out is the near-universal nature ...
... of a town without one." The research demonstrated that the rural-urban obesity disparity existed in younger Americans ...
