Sentences with phrase «more rural populations»

But increased prescribing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients may reflect increased opioid prescribing to lower socioeconomic and more rural populations.

While concern over immigration is at recent historical highs, that concern is overwhelmingly concentrated in older and more rural populations.

Not exact matches

«The Taliban is a much larger organization, controls roughly 10 - 12 % of the population of Afghanistan, has conducted a lot more attacks, and has some support among Afghanistan's conservative rural population,» Jones said.

We don't know where those people are; Rural counties are incentivized to overreport population to receive more benefits from higher levels of government, while city districts report lower figures to hit population control targets.

«We expect countries with young populations, supportive regulations and fast mobile Internet speeds and planned migration to 5G to be best positioned,» says Graseck, adding that banks serving urban populations may have more latitude to consolidate branches than those focused on rural populations.

First, we used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural - Urban scale (also called Beale Codes), from 1, for counties in metropolitan areas with 1 million or more in population through 9, for counties where there is no community larger than 2,500 and the county is not adjacent to a metropolitan area.

In his book The Nature Principle, Richard Louv says for the first time in history, more than half of the world's population lives in cities, rather than rural environments.

With this rising population and the lack of radical reform in most underdeveloped countries, particularly in the rural communities where the large masses of these people live, the world food crisis will recur when again the crops are less favorable; the danger is that it will then gradually take on an ever more permanent and disastrous dimension.

To meet different human needs, by 2050 it must simultaneously produce far more food for a population expected to reach about 9.6 billion, provide economic opportunities for the hundreds of millions of rural poor who depend on...

In Rwanda and Burundi, more than one in four rural residents have no access to an improved water source; in Kenya, nearly half the rural population lacks access.

More than half of El Salvador's population lives in rural areas, working on farms of less than 3 ha.

This is due to the fact that rural voters tend to be more conservative, and are perhaps, over-represented strictly based on population.

This seems surprising when one looks at the statistics — after all, the developing middle class, an indicator of a more urban and modernizing society, is still a minority (perhaps 300 million of China's 1.3 billion population), albeit a fast - growing one, and China remains a very poor country in terms of per capita GDP, as well as substantially rural.

Population size and age, fertility, mobility, poverty, equity, and resource availability and consumption all influence the impact on the environment» «Nigeria should focus on more influence in advocacy of family planning, the need to enhance people's knowledge on the modern family planning especially in rural areas» said Fayehun According to United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs as published on 21 June, 2017, global population will reach to 9.80 billion by 2050.

Rural communities are much more likely than urban populations to talk about the desire to keep their communities rooted, for there to be opportunities for their children to live and work close to where their parents live.

If anything, one might have expected a more rural and conservative demographic to be more supportive of UKIP than the population as a whole, in fact, they seem to be exactly the same.

Almost uniformly, in every country on Earth, the larger the population of a metropolitan area or the rural equivalent, the more productive it is per capita, and the lower its population is, the less productive it is per capita.

In both cases, the suburban additions were significantly more Democratic populations than the rural 31st was, leading to Democrats winning both portions of the divided territory and accusations of cracking - based gerrymandering.

It is also worth noting that according to the 2011 census, cities have larger populations of EU immigrants than more mixed and rural areas.

Lieutenant Gov. Kathy Hochul says among other things, the funding will target a particular population: addicts in more rural areas where treatment is an hour or two away.

Eventually Cuomo gave up his pledge to veto any district lines that were gerrymandered and agreed to new lines that drastically favored Senate Republicans, even creating a 63rd district upstate that suspiciously carved its way around major population centers and incorporated rural towns populated by more voters who were more likely Republican.

In terms of the European Election constituencies, there is a notable difference between the amount of territory covered by the very smallest constituency, Dublin, and the other two, more rural constituencies, in terms of population but especially in terms of geographical area / territory.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

This disparity is ascribed to the fact that rural populations tend to engage in more physically demanding jobs, for instance in construction, agriculture, forestry and mining, which they are unable to pursue after their cancer treatment.

More than half the world population now lives in cities, many migrating to urban centers from rural hinterlands, a trend that shows no sign of abating.

Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute is central Pennsylvania's only comprehensive cancer center, with a special research emphasis on cancer - producing behaviors that are more prevalent among an underserved rural population.

According to the 2014 Joint Monitoring Report on global progress against the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on water and sanitation, more than half of the global population lives in cities, and urban areas are still better supplied with improved water and sanitation than rural ones.

this is a large scale population study with incredible health data comparing rural (vegan) vs. urban Chinese, duplicated in rats, much more compelling than just analyzing Bill Clinton, who I have heard did not stick to a vegan diet until recently after his last scare.

Compared to rural African populations eating traditional plant - based diets, white South Africans and black and white Americans not only have more than 50 times the heart disease, 10 times more colon cancer, and more than 50 times more gallstones and appendicitis, but also more than 25 times the rates of so - called pressure diseases — diverticulitis, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, and hiatal hernia.

In Arizona — a highly urbanized state with population primarily clustered in the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas — both charter and district schools are concentrated in urban areas, yet as of 2010 there were more than 200 charter schools operating in suburbs, towns, and rural areas.

More can be done to follow the trends and understand the impact of the growing charter school populations in rural communities like Bingham County, Idaho.

In Lee County Schools system in rural Alabama, for example, which had years earlier convinced a federal court that it had eliminated the effects of segregation, one of the four public high schools served more than 90 percent black students — even though the district student population was only 23 percent black.

Libraries serving populations over 50,000 allocate more to ebooks, and suburban libraries focus more on ebooks and DVD / Blu - rays than their urban or rural counterparts.

Normal Insurance Quotes: Home Policy Coverage in Central Illinois Because there's quite a bit of population density in the Bloomington - Normal area, locals will generally pay a bit more for homeowner's insurance than some of their neighbors in more rural parts of the state.

Specifically, these programs are meant to entice and reward those who serve in one of Arizona's underserved population areas, including those in more rural settings.

As veterinary medicine continued to evolve and the human population moved from rural communities to urban and suburban ones, cats and dogs became more popular as household pets.

Separated by the Appalachian Mountains, Shelby Humane Society is located in the eastern region of the county, where the population is more rural.

Photographed against rural, desolate backdrops depleted of their mineral resources, this body of work represents a series of narratives, exploring her encounters with both the people and landscape of a region that serves as home for the more neglected of the country's population.

More specifically, if 5 % of your population (urban land) is represented by 50 % of your sampling, and if 95 % of your population (rural land) is represented by the other 50 % of your sample, What kind of claims can you make about difference between the two?

Their life expectancy might have improved more during the past two decades if they'd not taken attention off medical care and public health in general for their still vast rural population, a problem they're now working to remedy.

If we adopt the ABS classification on urban and rural dwellings (the ABS defines urban areas to be those with 1000 or more people), the change of rate is even less pronounced over a similar timeframe: the proportions of rural dwellings in Victoria, New South Wales, and Tasmania in 1961 were 16 %, 15 %, and 33 %, only slightly decreasing to 11 %, 11 %, and 29 % in 2006 (dwelling data are contained in the census of population and housing and are available from the ABS).

Only a miniscule amount of financing commitments — 1 percent, or $ 200 million a year — went to more - affordable decentralized energy solutions, such as household solar systems, which hold great promise to deliver basic electricity more quickly and more affordably to vast, hard - to - reach rural populations.

As we noted then, more than half the world's population now lives in cities, but increasingly urbanization doesn't necessarily mean a complete break from those rural sensibilities.

Currently, around 15 percent of the world's population lacks access to electricity, mostly in rural areas of the developing world, where providing power infrastructure is more challenging.

My guess is that a breakdown by political parties or along rural / urban populations or by the degree of education attained would be much more instructive, albeit potentially embarrassing to certain groups.

We've been thru more then one rural town with population measured in the 100's with a nice 12 foot wide paved bicycle path paid for with federal or state «grant money».

And this is just the beginning: with massive wind projects under development across its northern and eastern provinces, and 19 ultra-high-voltage transmission projects connecting windy rural areas to population centers (all to be completed by 2014), more milestones lie ahead in China.

Rural populations will also benefit with more available energy.

Even in Norwich where he works, population 136,000, UHI will be more than 1C, although we have little truly rural land in SE England, so I could be understating things.

More than two - thirds of sub-Saharan Africa's population lacks electricity, with that number growing to more than 85 percent in rural arMore than two - thirds of sub-Saharan Africa's population lacks electricity, with that number growing to more than 85 percent in rural armore than 85 percent in rural areas.