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1.4.1 Training for Healthcare Practitioners1.4.2 Training Full-time Agriculture Health and Safety Specialists ; 1.5 Demographics of the Agricultural Workforce; 1.6 The Evolution of Production Agricultural, Workforce, and Types of Farms; 1.6.1 Family Farms; 1.6.2 Principal Operator; 1.6.3 Farm Family Members; 1.6.4 Farm Workers; 1.6.5 Indigenous Farm Workers; 1.6.6 Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers; 1.6.7 Large Farms and Industrial-style Farms ; 1.6.8 Family Corporations; 1.7 Other Occupations Exposed to the Agricultural Environment; 1.8 General Health Status of the Agricultural Population.

Andean traditional medicines in rural settings and community exchange networks -- Traditional medicines in new contexts: old cultural practices in new venues -- Women's roles in Andean marketplaces: shopping in the Andes -- Marketing medicines in rural Bolivia: San Pedro de Condo -- Selling medicines at Condo's regional marketplaces: Huari, Challapata, and Oruro -- Bolivian traditional medicines and urban commercialization: medicine vendors in Cochabamba -- Coca, coca medicines, and the dilemma of coca in the Andes and beyond -- Natural medicine and naturopaths in Bolivia: a new twist on traditional medicine -- Traditional medicines and intellectural property rights -- The future of traditional medicines in Bolivia

FrontMatter -- Reviewers -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Official U.S. Rural Area Classification Systems -- 3 Other Rural Area Classification Systems Used in the United States and Internationally -- 4 Changes in Society and Economy and Their Impact on Rural Area Classifications -- 5 Different Ways to Conceptualize Rural Areas in Metropolitan Society -- 6 Uses of Current Rural Classification Systems -- 7 Changes in Social Science Data and Methods -- 8 Evaluating the Reliability and Validity of Rural Area Classifications -- 9 Closing Remarks -- Bibliography

Intro -- RURAL TELEMEDICINE AND HOMELESSNESS ASSESSMENTS OF SERVICES -- RURAL TELEMEDICINE AND HOMELESSNESS ASSESSMENTS OF SERVICES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 TELECOMMUNICATIONS: FCC'S PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT WEAKNESSES COULD JEOPARDIZE PROPOSED REFORMS OF THE RURAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAM -- WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY -- WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS -- WHAT GAO FOUND -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BACKGROUND -- FCC HAS NOT PERFORMED THE ANALYSIS NECESSARY TO ENSURE THAT THE PRIMARY RURAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAM MEETS THE NEEDS OF RURAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS -- Participation in the Program, Although Increasing, Has Not Met FCC Projections and over Half of All Program Funds Are Used in Alaska -- FCC Has Not Assessed the Telecommunications Needs of Rural Health Care Providers to Guide the Evolution of the Rural Health Care Program -- FCC'S POOR PLANNING AND COMMUNICATION DURING THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PILOT PROGRAM CAUSED DELAYS AND DIFFICULTIES -- FCC's Limited Collaboration with USAC, Federal Agencies, and Other Knowledgeable Stakeholders Affected Pilot Program Design -- Pilot Participants Have Experienced Delays and Difficulties, in Part, Because FCC Did Not Fully Establish Requirements Prior to Calling for Applications and Did Not Provide Effective Program Guidance -- Pilot Participants Have Experienced Delays and Difficulties for Many Reasons -- FCC's Call for Applications Did Not Include Needed Information about the Eligibility of Entities, Expenses, and How to Meet the Match Requirement -- FCC Introduced New Requirements after Its Call for Applications and Selection of Pilot Participants -- Program Guidance Is Not Provided in an Effective Manner -- Program Guidance Is Not Provided in an Effective Manner

Introduction -- Potential challenges and opportunities in rural communities -- Leveraging resources to advance equity in rural areas -- Building greater prosperity in rural communities -- Equitable access to health and health care -- Final reflections

This monograph, a coherent and consistent historical narrative about Romania's modernization, focuses on one section of the country's elites of the late nineteenth century, namely the health professionals, and on the imagery they constructed as they interacted with the peasant and his world. Doctors ventured out of cities and became a familiar sight on dusty country roads in of Moldavia and Wallachia. Beyond a charitable impulse they did so thru patriotism as the rural world became ever more prominent within the national ideology. Furthermore, new health legislation required the district general practitioner (medicul de plasă) to visit the villages in his catchment area twice a month. Based on solid original research, the book describes rural conditions of the time and the efforts aiming to improve peasants' way of life with abundant "es from doctors' public health reports and memoirs. The book sheds light on a variety of microscale realities of social life in the medical discourse on the peasant and the rural world in the mirror of medical discourse. Themes include general hygiene, clothing, dwellings, nutrition, drinking habits and healing practices of the peasantry, in the eye of medical specialists. Related official measures, laws, regulations, norms about public health are also discussed in the frame of wider modernizing processes

From the pioneering Danville surgeon Ephraim McDowell, the first doctor to successfully perform abdominal surgery, and Luke Blackburn, dubbed the "Hero of Hickman" and elected governor in 1879 after his efforts to combat yellow fever, to contemporary Kentucky doctors performing groundbreaking reconstructive surgery and artificial heart implants, Healing Kentucky tells the story of the two-hundred-year struggle to provide good health care to all Kentuckians. Nancy Disher Baird describes Lexington schoolteacher Linda Neville's mission to treat the eye disease trachoma in rural Kentucky, Louise C

This insightful work on rural health in the United States examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United States. Since 1990, immigration to the United States has risen sharply, and rural areas have seen the highest increases. Thurka Sangaramoorthy reveals that that the corporatization of health care delivery and immigration policies are deeply connected in rural America. Drawing from fieldwork that centers on Maryland's sparsely populated Eastern Shore, Sangaramoorthy shows how longstanding issues of precarity among rural health systems along with the exclusionary logics of immigration have mutually fashioned a "landscape of care" in which shared conditions of physical suffering and emotional anxiety among immigrants and rural residents generate powerful forms of regional vitality and social inclusion. Sangaramoorthy connects the Eastern Shore and its immigrant populations to many other places around the world that are struggling with the challenges of global migration, rural precarity, and health governance. Her extensive ethnographic and policy research shows the personal stories behind health inequity data and helps to give readers a human entry point into the enormous challenges of immigration and rural health.

"This insightful work on rural health in the United States examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United States. Since 1990, immigration to the United States has risen sharply, and rural areas have seen the highest increases. Thurka Sangaramoorthy reveals that that the corporatization of health care delivery and immigration policies are deeply connected in rural America. Drawing from fieldwork that centers on Maryland's sparsely populated Eastern Shore, Sangaramoorthy shows how longstanding issues of precarity among rural health systems along with the exclusionary logics of immigration have mutually fashioned a 'landscape of care' in which shared conditions of physical suffering and emotional anxiety among immigrants and rural residents generate powerful forms of regional vitality and social inclusion"--