(1) The latter group was more diffusely distributed with approximately twice the incidence in nonurban areas compared to urban areas (P less than 0.001).
(2) Throughout the study period and area, nonurban MCD's register more positively than the rural.
(3) The epidemic in the state has grown steadily since 1981, clustering initially in metropolitan South Florida but dispersing to other urban and nonurban areas.
(4) Nonurban schools from eight Indian Health Service areas.
(5) The former group clustered in urban areas with more than twice the incidence compared to nonurban areas (P less than 0.001).
(6) Among those physicians in nonurban locations, those in solo practice adopt significantly fewer procedures than those in other practice modes.
(7) Results of a questionnaire completed by the parents of all 23 patients indicated that they were generally nonindigent, with good access to medical care, and from a nonurban setting.
(8) A program for the prevention of preterm births was developed for use in small, nonurban communities.
(9) From a stratified, random sampling of Southeastern, nonurban high schools, survey data on smokeless tobacco use and potential psychosocial risk factors were obtained from 5683 adolescent females.
(10) The objective of this study was to survey a community hospital residency program in a nonurban area with a perceived low HIV patient seroprevalence.
(11) Patients with disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), while still more commonly treated in urban settings, are being seen in nonurban areas in numbers rapidly outstripping the local availability of specialists with expertise in HIV or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
(12) It was concluded that applicants with high ratings were more likely to acquire a strongly academic, research view of medicine and, as a result, to feel professionally isolated when practicing in nonurban areas.
(13) In selecting interventions, inadequate consideration has been given to the differences in emergency medical services personnel training, frequencies of their exposure to patients, frequencies of skill use, and availabilities of effective continuing education programs in the urban and nonurban environments.
(14) Forty-six physicians practicing in nonurban areas of California were interviewed.
(15) This is in contrast to previous reports of low rates of HIV infection among ED patients in nonurban settings.
(16) The results closely resemble those of studies performed in the United States: the choice of a nonurban practice location is significantly more likely if the physicians and their spouses have nonurban backgrounds and if the physicians have had a nonurban preceptorship during undergraduate medical education.
(17) Higher rates of decay continue in nonurban-area children.
(18) Despite this decrease, both men and women who donated in urban areas had a significantly higher seroprevalence than those in nonurban areas.
(19) A study was carried out to determine community levels of blood pressure and to document the prevalence of hypertension, obesity and cigarette smoking in nonurban Indians in three communities in northwestern Ontario.
(20) A serologic survey for rubella and measles immunity was conducted to determine the immunity levels among a nonurban, relatively isolated pediatric population.
Rural
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect.
(a.) Of or pertaining to agriculture; as, rural economy.
Example Sentences:
(1) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(2) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
(3) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
(4) To evaluate the first full year of operation of the rural registrar scheme by comparing the educational activities undertaken by the participating rural general practitioners with those undertaken in the previous year.
(5) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(6) Since then the intensive development of anti-malaria campaigns in urban areas over about ten years led temporarily to a considerable decrease in the level of endemicity, while in rural areas it remained unchanged.
(7) Stool weights, defecation frequencies, and transit times in this group are much closer to those of westernized whites than to rural blacks.
(8) A nutritional field survey was undertaken in 11 rural districts of Kwazulu.
(9) The dietary information on children with diarrhea came from focus groups with mothers in 3 marginal urban communities, 3 rural indigenous communities, and 4 rural Ladino communities.
(10) Thus, the dental health and dietary habits of the Greek immigrant and the Swedish children were generally very similar, while the Greek rural children showed a less favourable cariological status.
(11) These preliminary results suggest that finger stick blood samples, collected on filter paper, could be used for FTA-ABS testing of remote rural populations--such as in areas where yaws is endemic.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrians queue for water at a shelter in Hirjalleh, a rural area near the capital Damascus.
(13) Chester’s proposal for Hartsuyker to be the next deputy leader excludes other senior Nationals figures who are in the current Turnbull ministry, including assistant infrastructure minister Michael McCormack and rural health minister Fiona Nash.
(14) RPG was prepared as mothers do it in a rural area, according to previous ethnographic work.
(15) Trichotomic classification of communities throws some light on the problem of causes of death of the rural and urban population.
(16) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(17) One chief constable policing a rural area said he would have a copy of the winning candidate's manifesto on his desk when he met the new PCC on their first day of work.
(18) The logistics of maintaining and supplying underground clinics located in war-torn rural Afghanistan are presented.
(19) A 24-year-old man from rural Mississippi had a case of California encephalitis (CE) that evolved as a subacute encephalomyelitis.
(20) Many characteristics of California's counties that correlate with physician-population ratios also correlate with psychiatrist-population ratios, with their changes through time and with rural counties' ability to attract psychiatrists.