Rural geography

Rural-Community Health Care Professional Health care professionals who choose to practice in rural communities face a series of barriers and sets of opportunities rather than a health care professional who practices in a suburban or urban environment. Regardless of the location of the health centre, it’s essentially crucial to give a patient the required amount of care to nurture them healthy. Unfortunately, health care in rural communities is small but the population of health care professionals is gradually rising. There are many advantages and disadvantages to practicing in a rural community which will be explored in this essay. It’s been said by many health care professionals that working in a rural community is a very rewarding and…

Cedric Deal AP Human Geography P4 1/22/2017 1. A. Folk culture can be defined as culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. B. Pop culture can be defined as culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. C. The diffusion of folk culture compared to popular culture, is that folk culture is transmitted from one location to another more…

Introduction I am a social worker working for a non-government organisation and I am working in a rural town with a population of around 10,000-14,000. This rural town is five hours away from the closest city. For the purpose of this assignment we are going to go by this rural town as Kimba. In recent years the mental health status among families, individuals and communities in…

The sense of place in Wideman’s Sent For You Yesterday, Gay’s Provinces of Night, and Chute’s The Beans of Egypt Maine transcends physical boundaries and is “seen heard, smelled, imagined, love, hated, feared, revered, enjoyed or avoided.” In Sent For You Yesterday, generations of Homewood inhabitants unconsciously become products of their landscape. The novel 's characters—Brother Tate, Doot Carl, Albert Wilkes (among others)—become manifestations of the history and experiences of Homewood, as…

in the original thirteen colonies that became the United States based on the English common law. This system defined the boundaries of a parcel of land by using physical features of the local geography along with directions and distances. The boundaries are described in running prose style, working around the parcel in sequence from a beginning point and returning back to the same point. Features like rivers, tress, unusual rocks, stone walls, roads, etc. were used to describe the boundary.…

Our culture dictates many parts of our lives, whether it be through conscious understanding or through subconscious ritual and belief. For some, their culture defines who they are fundamentally. Alice Walker, in her short story “Everyday Use”, uses the differing mindsets of two sisters to explore African-American culture in rural America. Also explored is how heritage, reflected in where and when one grows up, interacts and affects culture. Although Mama raised both sisters the same way, they…

State and society :- Case answer Submission ‘Hand in Hand’ Date:- 1st November, 2015 Submitted by:- Sanjula Ahuja Q 1:- What are the institutional voids/deficiencies highlighted by the case? The voids mentioned in the case which Hih was facing and which were hampering the implementation of the 5 programs and all the development services are:- Poor infrastructure:- India’s poor infrastructure in rural areas and lack of integrated information systems to connect 12 districts was making it…

In Pakistan over half of the incidences of blindness were caused by cataracts; over three quarters of these cases being treatable (Shab et al., 2008). With the work LRBT has done over the past thirty years, they have created a supportive environment for the residents of Pakistan. Helping reduce the prevalence of blindness in Pakistan by almost fifty percent (LRBT, 2016). Many of their projects have a heavier focus on rural communities, where there are more vision issues, because these rural…

Reflective Essay I. Introduction “Geography is the study of Earth’s landscapes, people, places, and environments” (“What is Geography,” n.d.). There are five main themes that can be referred to when discussing geography. The themes help answer specific questions, such as “Where is it?”, “Why is it there?” and “What are the consequences of its being there?” (“The Five Themes,” n.d., p. 1). These five themes are all relevant to the region, location, place, movement, and human-environment…

EVALUATING THE FACTORS IMPACT ON RURAL TO URBAN MIGRATION - A STUDY ABSTRACT: The study covers the rural villages people, who are coming from rural area to urban, there are no basic industries that will employ the development active labour force, thus prompt to the urban migration to the urban areas in search of job opportunities, business enhancement, quality education and quality medical facilities etc. The present study was an attempt to identify the factors influence on migrants in rural…