scholarly journals Turning rural villages into the home front for social stability—Examination of coronavirus disease 2019 control experiences in rural areas in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 1250-1256
Author(s):  
Xiaoyan Zhang ◽  
Chen Xiang
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Stability Examination

Entrepreneurship Problems and its remedies for Rural Villages in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-210
Author(s):  
Dileep N ◽  
Bhavani
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Rural Livelihood ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Financial Growth ◽  
Marketing Methods

India’s most of the population lives in rural villages, approximately 73%  (SandeepSaxena) of the population held up with agriculture and associated works as their main stream of income resources. The Countries economic development and financial growth fundamentally depends on the rural area and their living standards of rural population. Entrepreneurship in rural areas is one of the utmost important initiate towards economic development of county and its constituencies. Rural Entrepreneurship facilitates to uses the scarce resources in most effective manner thus increasing profits and rural livelihood. Due to lack of educational knowledge gap most of the rural entrepreneurs are unaware of the innovative development techniques and modern marketing methods etc. The main problem faced by rural entrepreneurs is raw materials and financial investments. Commonly rural entrepreneurs face the strange problems like, lack of training and development programs, fear of risk, and lack of experience in business, illiteracy, limited market scope and competition from the city entrepreneurs.

scholarly journals COPD awareness in the urban slums and rural areas around Pune city in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deesha Deepak Ghorpade ◽  
Anchala Raghupathy ◽  
Jyoti Deepak Londhe ◽  
Sapna Jitendra Madas ◽  
Nisha Vijay Kale ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tobacco Smoking ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Urban Slum ◽  
Urban Slums ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Disability Adjusted Life ◽  
Life Years

AbstractCOPD is the second leading cause of death and disability adjusted life years (DALYs) in India, yet, it remains poorly recognized. We aimed to study the level of awareness of COPD in urban slums of Pune city in India and its neighboring rural areas. All male and female subjects above the age of 30 years residing in 13 randomly selected slums of Pune city (total population of 3000) and 7 randomly selected neighboring rural villages (total population of 3000) were invited to participate in this cross-sectional community survey. After obtaining written informed consent, 13 trained community health workers (CHWs) administered a questionnaire that captured their level of awareness of COPD. Of the 6000 subjects approached, 5420 residents (mean age ± SD = 48.0 ± 13.5 years; 38% males) consented and answered all questions. The number of people who had ever heard the word COPD was 49/5420 [0.9% (0.6–1.1%); 0.7% (0.5–1.3%) of the urban slum dwellers and 1.15% (0.5–1.3%) of rural residents]. Among those who had never heard the word COPD (n = 5371), when asked what was the name of the disease caused by long-term tobacco smoking, 38% said cancer, 16.7% said asthma, and 4.4% said TB. Among those who had heard the word COPD (n = 49), 6.1% said it was a disease of the heart, and 61% attributed COPD to smoke and dust pollution and 20% to tobacco smoking. The level of awareness of COPD in the Indian community is extremely low, highlighting the need to have nationwide mass awareness programs in India.

scholarly journals Development and testing of a quantitative food frequency questionnaire for use in Kerala, India

1998 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R Hebert ◽  
Prakash C Gupta ◽  
Ramesh B Bhonsle ◽  
PR Murti ◽  
Hemali Mehta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Frequency Questionnaire ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Food Frequency ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Head Of Household ◽  
Male Head ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Study Population

AbstractObjective:To develop and test a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) for use in rural areas of Kerala, India.Design:Based on food use and market surveys of the study area, a quantitative 81-item interviewer-administered FFQ was developed. A validation study was conducted consisting of 24-h diet recalls (24HR) administered on 8 days randomly selected over an entire year and two administrations of the FFQ, one at the beginning of the l-year period and the other at the end. FFQ and 24HR-derived nutrient scores were compared using correlation and regression analyses and by examining differences in the nutrient scores.Setting:Rural villages in Ernakulum district, Kerala, South India.Subjects:In each of 30 households, the male head of household and female food preparer were enrolled.Results:Pearson (parametric) correlation coefficients (rp) averaged about 0.50 in comparing nutrient scores derived from the 24HR with those from the first FFQ and about 0.55 in comparing the second FFQ. On average, Spearman correlation coefficients (rs) were slightly lower than the rp in comparing the scores derived from the first FFQ, but virtually identical for the second FFQ. Regression analyses indicated better agreement in the comparison of the 24HR-derived scores with the first FFQ than the second FFQ. Difference scores, however, tended to be larger in comparing the first FFQ scores with the 24HR.Conclusions:This FFQ produces results broadly comparable to those used in Europe and North America, indicating its suitability for comparing exposures within a study population in reference to health-related endpoints.

scholarly journals PHLEBOTOMINE SANDFLIES IN RURAL LOCATIONS IN THE STATE OF PARANA, SOUTHERN BRAZIL

2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 407-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Cristina Castanho Sabaini de Melo ◽  
Wilsandrei Cella ◽  
Rubens Massafera ◽  
Natalia Maria Maciel Guerra Silva ◽  
Reinaldo Marqui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Domestic Animal ◽  
The State ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Environmental Characteristics ◽  
Animal Shelters ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Tegumentary Leishmaniasis ◽  
Phlebotomine Sandflies ◽  
American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis

SUMMARY This study reports the fauna and frequency of sandflies in domestic animal shelters, residences and other ecotopes in rural areas of the municipality of Bandeirantes, Paraná State. Sandflies were collected twice in eight rural villages by using Falcon traps from 8pm to 6am in 2008. In these localities 4,790 sandflies were collected, which were represented by ten sandfly species, prevailing of Nyssomyia neivai and Nyssomyia whitmani species. It was observed that animal shelters are the domestic ecotopes where there is the greatest frequency of these insects. The localities where the collections were made had the environmental characteristics that allow the persistence of transmission of parasites from the American tegumentary leishmaniasis. Although the fauna and the behavior of sandflies species are similar in different localities, the method of controlling these insects should be adjusted to the environmental characteristics of each one of the most diverse endemic areas of American tegumentary leishmaniasis in the municipalities of Paraná State.

A quantitative comparison of frugivorous tephritids (Diptera: Tephritidae) in tropical forests and rural areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo

2011 ◽  
Vol 101 (5) ◽  
pp. 591-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Virgilio ◽  
T. Backeljau ◽  
R. Emeleme ◽  
J.L. Juakali ◽  
M. De Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Congo River ◽  
Disturbed Habitats

AbstractMost of the current knowledge about African tephritids originates from studies performed in agricultural areas, while information about their distribution in pristine or moderately disturbed environments is extremely scarce. This study aims at (i) describing levels of spatial variability of frugivorous tephritids in tropical forests and small rural villages of the Congo River basin and (ii) verifying if human-mediated activities, such as small-scale agriculture and trade, can affect their distribution patterns. Four locations were sampled along a 250 km stretch of the Congo River. At each location, pristine and disturbed habitats (i.e. tropical forests and small rural villages, respectively) were sampled, with three replicate sites in each combination of habitat and location. Sampling with modified McPhail traps baited with four different attractants yielded 819 tephritid specimens of 29 species from seven genera (Bactrocera, Carpophthoromyia, Ceratitis, Dacus, Celidodacus, Perilampsis, Trirhithrum). The three most abundant species sampled (Dacus bivittatus, D. punctatifrons, Bactrocera invadens) showed significant variations in abundance across locations and sites and accounted for 98.29% of the overall dissimilarity between habitats. Assemblages differed among locations and sites while they showed significant differences between pristine and disturbed habitats in two out of the four locations. This study shows that frugivorous tephritids in central Congo have remarkably patchy distributions with differences among locations and sites representing the main source of variability. Our data show that, in rural villages of central Democratic Republic of Congo, human activities, such as small-scale agriculture and local commerce, are not always sufficient to promote differences between the tephritid assemblages of villages and those of the surrounding tropical forests.

scholarly journals Food Security is one of the Most Important Conditions for Economic Development

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kasira Nazarmatova ◽  
Saule Ermekbaeva
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Practical Interest ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Social Stability

Food security is one of the most important aspects of socio-economic development in Kyrgyzstan. Therefore, studies done in this field of research are of significant theoretical and practical interest. Resolutions of food security issues are one of the conditions for the preservation of state sovereignty, economic security and social stability in society, ultimately, national security. Food safety is important, in terms of strategic interests of the country, and its solution requires: to satisfy public demand for food products; providing industry with raw materials of local manufacture; preservation of social, political and social stability in society; to prevent dependency of the national economy on changes; conditions related to the world markets, the development of internal agricultural production, food and processing industry; neutralization of some import to ensure stable employment and income in rural areas; preservation of ethnic - national characteristics of the local population by creating opportunities for 'survival' of the village: prevention of major foreign exchange expenditure on food imports: the neutralization of the negative impact on the local food market crises in foreign countries - exporters and importers of food products.

scholarly journals Komunikasi Sosial Capital Sebagai Dakwah Kultural pada Masyarakat Islam di Pelosok Desa

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
Supriyo Wira
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Village Community ◽  
The Status ◽  
Village Communities ◽  
The Village

Indonesia needs to have social capital so that groups living in a society consisting of approximately 500 ethnic groups can unite. Every ethnicity has the potential to maintain its culture and territory. Moreover, Indonesia is a country where most of the population lives in rural areas and only a small part lives in urban areas. With the lack of economic development and education in the rural villages, the information flowing in the villages is not as fast and significant as in the cities. Even the da'i (preachers) have to fight harder to gain trust, so that they can provide precise and accurate religious information to the village community. This study discusses deeper on how Social Capital communication as a cultural da'wah can touch the community, especially in rural areas, to absorb religious information properly and correctly. This case study employs literature review method in collecting the data. The descriptive approach employed in this study also helps investigate the status of the existing factors and then looks at the relationship between one factor and another. Human resources or human capital is a very important and strategic capital in the life of a community organization. This is especially in terms of how a preacher as a communicator can convey his da'wah message to the village community, with a cultural and belief approach. Such way of communication is what makes the village communities easier to accept the da'wah activities since they are based on trust, mutual understanding and shared values. In addition, the communicators also convey all information about religion according to the existing culture and beliefs.

scholarly journals Factors influencing sustainability of open defecation free (ODF) status in rural India: A cross sectional study

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 116-125
Author(s):  
P S Janaki Krishna ◽  
R K Mishra ◽  
Maschendar Goud
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression Model ◽  
Open Defecation ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Free Status

Tackling a simple and sensitive concern of ‘Open Defecation (OD)’ is such a compounded and righteous challenge that enormous efforts and resources are needed to bring in the desired changes in the villages. Towards this, attaining open defecation free (ODF) status by providing toilet facilities to every household is the foremost step in rural sanitation programme under Swachh Bharat Mission – Gramin (SBM –G) being implemented by the Government of India. The present paper aims to examine the factors that have influence in attaining ODF status in rural areas. In this study, various parameters that contribute to attaining ODF status in the villages were identified and an extensive primary survey was conducted in 32,390 households across 686 rural villages in Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh, India. The empirical analysis of the data using a multinomial logistic regression model revealed that the factors such as water availability, safe excreta disposal, technology used for toilet construction and awareness on Swachh Bharat have an influence in achieving the open defecation free status in the villages to a greater extent.

scholarly journals Agro-tourism and Rural Development in Nepal

Patan Pragya ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-109
Author(s):  
Malati Kaini
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Close Link ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Review Study

In this paper more focus towards the rural areas development is given. Remarkable agricultural production is being gained by active involvement of rural population in available agricultural land. In this article the review is focused on agro-tourism. The main purpose of this paper is to know the situation of rural areas in the context of agro-tourism. Tanahun district has been selected for this review study where 1.22% of the total population is working within 1.05% agricultural land of the country. Agro tourism allows close link of outsiders with the inhabitants of rural villages where small farmers have been involved in traditional way of agriculture. This type of integration surely helps for running home stay and employing rural youth. Thus, agro-tourism can become the best option for socio-economic promotion of rural areas in the district. This type of development model will certainly be helpful for the development of rural areas in other Provinces.  

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