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Creator:: Terhes, Amanda Foshay
Abstract:: This thesis evaluates the programs, activities, and relationships of Enfoque Ixcan, a non-profit eye care project providing services to a rural area of Guatemala. I conducted ethnographic interviews with key stakeholders of the organization and carried out participant observation in the Ixcan region of Guatemala in February 2006. The research...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Barriers and Avenues for Providing Eye Care Services to Rural Guatemala Abstract approved

Creator:: Hiraiwa, Yuri
Abstract:: In this study, the level of drug. knowledge was assessed among a sample of village practitioners in three villages of Bangladesh by means of interviews using questionnaires over a period of three months. The objective was to find out how the type of training, medical registration, source of background drug...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: practitioners as health care providers to the rural population is closely examined. HEALTH STATUS IN THE THIRD

Creator:: Larson, Annie E.
Abstract:: Research Objective: Nearly 60 million people in the United States reside in a rural area. Residents in rural areas have higher rates of chronic disease, risky health behaviors, disability, infant mortality, and age-adjusted mortality than their urban counterparts. Health insurance and access to care mitigate those risks, in part because...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: !presented!on!May! 22,!2018.! ! Title:!Health!Service!Utilization!among!Medicaid!Enrollees!in!Oregon

Creator:: Okoye, Peter Iloabuchi
Abstract:: The primary purpose of this study was to identify the competencies essential for effective performance as a rural public health sanitarian in developing countries. The need to identify rural sanitarian competencies in developing countries is closely related to the World Health Organization's goal of "Health for all by the year...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: The identification of rural public health sanitarian

Creator:: Harding, Anna K. Williamson
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: and Perception 68 Characteristics of the Health Service (Enabling and System Factors) 71 Summary 76

Creator:: Bodison, Chantelle
Abstract:: This study was unique in that it focused on the rural elderly of both Black and White ethnicity's, explored differences between groups by comparing use and knowledge of health services, and controlled for gender, income, educational attainment, health status, age, and health beliefs - the independent variables of the study....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: health service use by older individuals, with the exception of one rural county. In the one site which

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