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Rural second homes and their impacts on rural development : a case study in East Iran Ghent University University of Antwerp
Integration of private firms in rural development strategies : the case of rural communities from the Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico Ghent University
Increasing the availability of health workers in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review of rural pipeline programmes Institute of Tropical Medicine
Introduction
Rural pipeline approach has recently gain prominent recognition in improving the availability of health workers in hard-to-reach areas such as rural and poor regions. Understanding implications for its successful implementation is important to guide health policy and decision-makers in Sub-Saharan Africa. This review aims to synthesize the evidence on rural pipeline implementation and impacts in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Rural pipeline approach has recently gain prominent recognition in improving the availability of health workers in hard-to-reach areas such as rural and poor regions. Understanding implications for its successful implementation is important to guide health policy and decision-makers in Sub-Saharan Africa. This review aims to synthesize the evidence on rural pipeline implementation and impacts in sub-Saharan Africa.
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The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of community-based lay distribution of HIV self-tests in increasing uptake of HIV testing among adults in rural Malawi and rural and peri-urban Zambia: protocol for STAR (self-testing for Africa) cluster randomized Institute of Tropical Medicine
Background: Knowledge of HIV status remains below target in sub-Saharan Africa, especially among men and adolescents. HIV self-testing (HIVST) is a novel approach that enables unique distribution strategies, with potential to be highly decentralised and to provide complementary coverage to facility-based testing approaches. However, substantial gaps in evidence remain on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of HIVST, particularly in rural ...
Rural crisis and rural exodus? Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
This article analyses the migration dynamics in the wake of the 1845–1847 subsistence crisis in Flanders by means of a quantitative analysis of key demographic and economic data at municipal level. The data are unique in that they allow to directly measure in-migration and out-migration at the level of individual villages and towns. The results show that contrary to the powerful image of a push-driven rural exodus, it was not the villages ...
The Great Rural Transformation: Land Reform and Rural livelihoods in China KU Leuven
The second half of the 21st century has witnessed China’s economic miracle and social transformation. Peasants, however, have experienced a complicated transformation process with both triumph and suffering. On one hand, the decentralisation of the previous plan system stimulated agricultural growth; on the other, the surplus extraction from agriculture first by the state industry from the 1950s to the 1970s, then by the urban expansion of ...
HIV/AIDS-related information needs of urban and rural residents of northwest Ethiopia: Alerting the rural populace and meeting the progressive needs of the urban populace KU Leuven
Urban and rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa are characterized by different HIV/AIDS epidemiological and socio-ecological contexts. Against a backdrop of such variations, the present study assessed the impacts of urbanity vs. rurality on HIV/AIDS-related information needs. Cross-sectional survey data were gathered from 995 respondents in northwest Ethiopia. The findings indicated that urban residents’ concern about and information needs on ...
Making a Rural Movement. A Farmers' Union's answer to a changing rural world (Flanders, 1960s-1970s) KU Leuven
Recently, there has been growing interest in the emergence of rural movements in response to rapid changes in the post war countryside. However, little attention has been paid to the reaction of the old social movements to this transformation in rural society. In this paper, I concentrate on the reaction of the Boerenbond (Farmers’ Union) to the altering Flemish countryside in the 1960s and 1970s. The transformation of the Boerenbond in 1971 ...