In this article, we chose the Gini coefficient and Theil L index to measure inequalities of the health workforce at the urban-rural level in different stages of the medical system reform.
For rural China, stage-specific invasive cancer survival was based on average survival rates from the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) [ 13].
The main independent variables studied were: road distance to specialized cancer units (University hospital and cancer care centre), occupation, marital status, gender, place of residence (urban vs rural), cancer stage, hospital type, emergency admission and first specialist referral.
Mr. Coleman, meanwhile, began a campaign marathon, with dawn-to-dark fly-arounds to the state's rural corners, sharing stages with a string of Republican stars, including the president, the vice president, the first lady and the former mayor of New York.
This province was chosen because of the diversity of field sites (Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine, urban and rural, and various stages of achieving health reform goals) and access to hospital leaders.
She gives the newscasters — modern city folk with practiced off-and-on empathy and inane, if occasionally hilarious, ideas about rural life — center stage, though they're her least interesting satiric target.
At the senior high school stage, rural students' networks included parents, relatives, neighbors, siblings, teachers, peers, peers' parents, and institutions.
The soil sources sampled included fields planted in cotton, almond, tomato, grape, and safflower, dairy and feedlot facilities, paved and unpaved roads (both urban and rural), an agricultural staging area, disturbed land with salt buildup, and construction areas where the topsoil had been removed.
In the rural areas, two-stage sampling was adopted for the selection of households.
In the second stage, rural and city regions were identified from each study area.
