Rural population

Table.3.4. Illness in the rural population of Uzbekistan (adults and children) by nosological forms in the 1960s (per 1000 population) [49]... 

Ambarysumyan G.Sh. Vliyaniye pestitsidov na sostoyaniye zdorov ya sel skogo naseleniya Armyanskoy SSR (Pesticide Effects on Rural Population Health in the Armenian SSR) Dis.. ..Doctor of Medical Sciences. Yerevan, 1988. Vol. 1, 466 pp. Vol.2, 249 pp. 

Horak, P. and Lebreton, J.-D. 1998. Survival of adult great tits in relation to sex and habitat A comparison of urban and rural populations. Ibis 140 205-209. 

Both in the USA and the EU, the introduction of renewable fuels standards is likely to increase considerably the consumption of bioethanol. Lignocelluloses from agricultural and forest industry residues and/or the carbohydrate fraction of municipal solid waste (MSW) will be the future source of biomass, but starch-rich sources such as corn grain (the major raw material for ethanol in USA) and sugar cane (in Brazil) are currently used. Although land devoted to fuel could reduce land available for food production, this is at present not a serious problem, but could become progressively more important with increasing use of bioethanol. For this reason, it is important to utilize other crops that could be cultivated in unused land (an important social factor to preserve rural populations) and, especially, start to use cellulose-based feedstocks and waste materials as raw material. 

Slavov V., Borschenko V. et all. Peculiarities of the internal and external exposure dose forming of the rural population of Exclusion zone // Visnyk of Agrarian Science. - April 2001.-P. 86-89. 

CA168 Zamora-Martinez, M. C., and C. N. P. CA179 Pola. Medicinal plants used in some rural populations of Oaxaca, Puebla and Veracuz, Mexico. J Ethnopharm-acol 1992 35(3) 229-257. CA180... 

Statistics South Africa (2006). Urban/Rural population of South Africa. Unpublished Report. 

Opium cultivation in Myanmar continues to decline. Since 2002, the year of the first joint GoUM/UNODC survey, opium poppy cultivation has fallen 73 per cent. Remarkably, no opium cultivation was observed in the Wa region in 2006. In 2005, this region contributed to 30 per cent of the national opium poppy cultivation. The decline in cultivation poses serious challenges for the rural population in the remote areas of this region, who do not have viable alternative income strategies. 

A breakdown of rural communities has taken place in the Nordic region. In Finland, for example, in their TOO-hectare loneliness , the remaining farm families now run their mechanised farms in an industrial mode. As recently as 20 years ago, there were rural communities with an average farm size of 10 ha. With fewer farms and a reduced rural population, there is loss of infrastructure and services for those who remain, further accelerating the move to urban areas. The overall situation adds external cost to the farming and food sectors, but often the cost is borne by society in the form of subsidies from the federal government or the EU, or they are passed on to future generations. 

Ground water is the source of water supplied by municipal treatment plants to more than 2 million Canadians (7). In addition, there are more than 500,000 drilled wells in Canada that mainly serve rural populations not served by municipal supplies (8). Ground water has several advantages over surface waters, for example, constant temperature, consistent quality, relatively dependable constant supply, and... 

The present freshwater deficit is observed not only in the territories naturally short of water resources, but also in many regions where until recently water has been plentiful. At present, the need of freshwater is not satisfied for 20% of the urban population and 75% of the rural population of the planet. 

Hage-Hamsten, M., Johansson, E., Kronquist, M., Loughry, A., Cookson, W. C., and Moffatt, M.F. 2002. Associations of Fc epsilon Rl-beta polymorphisms with immunoglobulin antibody responses to common inhalant allergens in a rural population. Clin Exp Allergy 32 838-842. 

Isokoski, M., Krohn, K., Varis, K., and Siurala, M., Parietal cell and intrinsic factor antibodies in a Finnish rural population sample. Scand. ]. Gastroenterol. 4, 521-527... 

Although the role of ochratoxins in human pathogenesis is stiU speculative, the lesions of nephropathy in humans were reported to be similar to those observed in porcine nephropathy [104]. Outbreaks of kidney disease (Balkan endemic nephropathy) in rural populations in Bulgaria, Romania, Tunisia and the former Yugoslavia were associated with ochratoxin A [104—106]. These correlations were... 

UN (1997). "UN urban and rural population estimates and projections as revised in 1994". United Nations Population Division and UNDP, Washington. Website http //www.undp.org/popin/wdtrends/urban.html. 

Korean epidemiologists have studied the prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection in a rural population (n — 1033) with a high incidence of liver cancer (106). They noted that the strongest associations in a multivariate analysis were with anti-HCV positivity and the use of acupuncture (OR = 2.2, 95% Cl = 1.0, 4.7). 

French investigators have evaluated the presence of serum markers of hepatitis A, B, and C viruses in a rural population of 303 volunteers (107). The main risk factors for positivity were past hospitalizations (72%), acupuncture (18%), conjugal unfaithfulness (11%), blood transfusion (9.4%), tattoos (5.8%), homosexuality (1.1%), and intravenous drug addiction (0.73%). 

These state simplifications, like all state simplifications, are always far more static and schematic than the actual social phenomena they presume to typify. The farmer rarely experiences an average crop, an average rainfall, or an average price for his crops. Much of the long history of rural tax revolts in early modern Europe and elsewhere can be illuminated by the lack of fit between an unyielding fiscal claim, on one hand, and an often wildly fluctuating capacity of the rural population to meet that claim, on the other. And yet, even the most equitable, well-intentioned cadastral system cannot be uniformly administered except on the basis of stable units of measurement and calculation. It can no more reflect the actual complexity of a farmer s experience than the... 

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