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The government of South Africa uses about 11 percent of their budget to contribute to the countries healthcare expense. The public contributes about 80 percent of their budget to the countries expenses. There are over 3,500 clinics in the rural area of the country that offers free healthcare to children under 6 years old. They also offer free healthcare to pregnant and breastfeeding women. South Africa does not have any type of health agreement with other countries, which is why their healthcare…

large urban areas. The jobs in these cities are in a large abundance in most cases that is. The schooling in large cities is much better when it comes to the focus on academics. When you look at small towns in the U.S. the schools focus a lot on sports like football. Where large…

which the current sprawl arose from. Andres Duany offers his expert opinion during the final scenes of Radiant City by suggesting a “new urban smart growth” in order to fix the issues of sprawl, which necessitates suburban communities converting the area in front of their homes to buildings for rent or for places of business, and the building of affordable town homes and apartments on desolate parking lots where underachieving stores are located (Brown & Burns, 2006). In principal, it appears…

the service the lack of resources a rural area provides can prove too much, causing the client’s needs to go unmet. Reasons rural areas are so challenging to the delivery of services are due to many different factors: transportation, culture barriers, tight family unities, language barriers, lack of agencies, lack of funding, and isolation of individuals who may live in the mountain areas. Although these are not all of the factors agencies face in a rural area they are enough to create a barrier…

urban areas in developing countries is causing a large debate on whether it is overall beneficial or harmful to the countries and societies that they are located in. In 2000 two billion people in the developing world lived in cities, by 2030 it is expected to be around five billion. The cities that are growing the fastest are located in Asia and Africa. The question of whether this is a positive impact is rooted in how it will affect the poverty level. There is mass poverty in urbanized areas,…

of foreign investment, the FARC grew from a grassroots socialist movement into the most powerful guerilla organization in Latin America. The rise to power was wrought with brutality, fear, and illegal drugs. The Colombian people in rural and remote areas once prided themselves on the continuation of the FARC for decades but by the…

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,…

A community environment serves an important function in shaping our personal development and belief system. The community an individual grows up in says a lot about that individual as a person. With strengths, comes weaknesses and every community differs in many ways. The community I grew up in may differ from the community others lived in, and that’s what makes us all unique and different from one another. No matter if you live on Grand View Drive or you live on the south side of Chicago each…

it shows different areas of suburban homes and each add a distinctive element to their story. Issues are identified for these suburbs and it explains the ways or what they have done to make suburban lifestyles become more of a sustainable…

Vivacious City Life vs Boring Country Life A rural area is classified as a town with fewer than 1,000 people per 2.6 square kilometers, and surrounding areas with fewer than 500 people per 2.6 square kilometers (“Rural Area”). This means that rural areas have people and buildings that are few and far between. An urban area, on the other hand, has homes and businesses located very close to one another in a small area (“Rural Area”). Cities are filled with more job opportunities, filled with more…