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and people belong to one of these groups are not always poor. The Indian government’s definition of poverty does not accurately dictate who and who is not poor (Fernandez, 2010). The majority of poor people do live in rural areas because of the problems that people face in the rural areas (Müller and Patel, 2004). However, there are urban poor people who are poor due to recent events such as economic liberalisation (Fernandes, 2010). Low castes do experience greater poverty due to the…

Malaria assassinates one child every 30 seconds, equating to over 1,000 deaths per day and well over 20,000 a week. Malaria, a life- threatening disease caused by parasitic mosquitoes is quite prevalent in Nigeria, killing thousands per year. According to Healthline, a peer- reviewed medical information source; Malaria is caused by mosquitoes carrying the Plasmodium parasite living in tropical and subtropical climates. The parasite destroys red blood cells; if left untreated, Malaria can lead…

Hotel Rwanda is a movie released in 2004 and is inspired by the Rwanda genocide in 1994. The plot of Hotel Rwanda focuses on conflicts between the Abahutu (Hutu) and Abatutsi (Tutsi) cultures in Rwanda, Africa. The president of Rwanda, Juvénal Habyarimana, and the Burundian president, Cyprien Ntaryamira, were killed after their airplane was shot down by rebels. This event started the physical conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi culture in October 1, 1990 through August 4, 1993. The main…

markets for U.S. agricultural products, providing financing to expand job opportunities and improve housing, utilities, and infrastructure in rural America, and providing food assistance and nutrition education (Allgov.com). The USDA has five specific areas of interest that work as an organism to complete the mission of the organization. Namely; assisting rural communities, conservation, education and research, food and nutrition as well as, marketing and trade. Each program then…

Of the 1718 municipalities that exist in Japan, 46% are classified as depopulated; despite occupying over half of the country’s total land, a mere 8% of the national population reside in these municipalities (Rural Independence Promotion Union). The problem of depopulation in villages is exacerbated by a shortage of worker population, resulting into a “graying” population, deteriorated agriculture and industry (Warnock). According to the 2005 census conducted by Statistics Japan, Miyoshi city,…

Jakarta or a farmer will move his impoverished family into one of Lima’s innumerable pueblos jóvenes” (1). The quotation proves that people will be moving from rural areas to megacities without anyone telling them to do it. Megacities can be described as a larger geographic metropolitan area with a greater population. People were moving from rural villages to megacities because it was their choice to do so, they thought that their current situation was worse than that of the megacities. Figure 2…

people that went out risking their lives everyday so that regular citizens could live theirs. Finally, many veterans who live in rural areas cannot find health care. Having so many veterans living in rural areas, it is harder for those veterans to find good health care ("the government aims to improve health care access for rural veterans"1). If there were VA offices in rural towns, these veterans could get the health care that they need because there…

the city and the rural areas. Many ideas and technology…

technology in first world countries compared to developing countries is usually the scenario depicted by the media in terms of a digital divide, but this divide exists between urban and rural Australia and is even more significant between the urban population and many remote communities of the country, with 15% of rural Australians without access to the minimum connection speed for email and Internet use. Despite internet access doubling in the last 2 decades, this significant digital divide…

telemedicine, this will increase access to this underserved population. Telemedicine is the use of computer and telecommunications to examine, diagnose, treat, and educate patients from a distance. Patients within the program would travel to the local rural hospital or clinic for a specialist appointment, scheduled by the patient’s primary care provider within the Indian Health Service. A provider from the Indian Health Service and the specialist physicians can work together to develop the…