Assessing the variation in workload among general practitioners in urban and rural areas: An analysis based on SMS time sampling data

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniël Hassel ◽  
Robert Verheij ◽  
Ronald Batenburg
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioners ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Time Sampling ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

Doctor supply in Australia: rural - urban imbalances and regulated supply

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhaya Kamalakanthan ◽  
Sukhan Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Community Pharmacy ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Physician Assistants ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
Poor Access ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas ◽  
Foreign Doctors

We review the debate on the supply of doctors in Australia from an economic perspective. We focus on the supply between urban and rural areas and on Australia’s reliance on foreign-born overseas-trained doctors. Documented evidence shows that doctors are concentrated in cities and rural Australians have relatively poor access; and there is heavy reliance on the recruitment of foreign doctors. We suggest that besides training more local doctors, policy-making should include innovations to resolve the supply imbalance such as physician assistants and community pharmacy care in areas where access to general practitioners is often limited.

General Practice in Australia

1972 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-284
Author(s):  
J. G. P. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
General Practitioner ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Community Health Centers ◽  
Work Load ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Royal Australian College ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

A personal view of the state of general practice in Australia and likely trends in the future is presented in this article. The effects of falling recruitment and increasing community demand for service have not yet produced serious effects in this country. A comparison of the effects on urban and rural areas is made. The general practitioner must relinquish some of his traditional roles, especially in surgery and anesthesia, and adopt new ones. To cope with an increasing work load more use must be made by general practitioners of associated health personnel. Community health centers should be developed in Australia and they may be the key to the viability of general practice. The National Health Service as it applies to general practice is discussed especially in relation to the recent introduction of the most common fee concept. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is active in preparing a vocational training program. Excerpts from the preliminary report of the Australian Medical Association Study Group on Medical Planning are given. Future medical manpower should be adequate to maintain present standards if recruitment to general practice can be maintained at a satisfactory level. The general practitioner must redefine his role in the medical community. Departments of general practice or community medicine should be established in all universities.

Three hundred years of House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) persecution in Germany

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. SEITZ
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
House Sparrow ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Passer Domesticus ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Population Increase ◽  
World War ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas ◽  
Second World

Modernization of agriculture, economic development and population increase after the end of the Thirty Years' War caused authorities in many parts of Germany to decree the eradication of so-called pest animals, including the House Sparrow. Farmers were given targets, and had to deliver the heads of sparrows in proportion to the size of their farms or pay fines. At the end of the eighteenth century German ornithologists argued against the eradication of the sparrows. During the mid-nineteenth century, C. L. Gloger, the pioneer of bird protection in Germany, emphasized the value of the House Sparrow in controlling insect plagues. Many decrees were abolished because either they had not been obeyed, or had resulted in people protecting sparrows so that they always had enough for their “deliveries”. Surprisingly, various ornithologists, including Ernst Hartert and the most famous German bird conservationist Freiherr Berlepsch, joined in the war against sparrows at the beginning of the twentieth century, because sparrows were regarded as competitors of more useful bird species. After the Second World War, sparrows were poisoned in large numbers. Persecution of sparrows ended in Germany in the 1970s. The long period of persecution had a significant but not long-lasting impact on House Sparrow populations, and therefore cannot be regarded as a factor in the recent decline of this species in urban and rural areas of western and central Europe.

Association of Age, Birth order and Family Income with Psycho-social problems in Rural Adolescents

JMS SKIMS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-95
Author(s):  
Noorul Amin
Keyword(s):  
Birth Order ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Psychosocial Problems ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Rural Adolescents ◽  
Youth Self Report ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

Background: The present age is the age of stress. Everybody is disturbed due to one or the other reason irrespective of their age. However, adolescents are more prone to psychological and sociological disturbances.Objectives:To assess the psychosocial problems in adolescents.Methods: The study was conducted in selected schools of urban and rural areas taking 100 participants each for boys and girls using convenient sampling method. The tool used was youth self report. The data collected was analyzed using appropriate statistical methods.Results: The study revealed that 48.5% adolescents were well adjusted; 47% were having mild psychosocial problems; 4% had moderate psychosocial problems and 0.5% had severe psychosocial problems.Conclusion: Adolescents irrespective of their living places had varying degrees of psychosocial problems. JMS 2017; 20 (2):90-95

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