Original Articles

• Conditions and characteristics of older adults and primary caregivers who use short-stay services: a comparison between long-term and short-term service groups by service type
  Chiyo Hagiwara, Hisanaga Sasaki
  J Rural Med. 2022 Oct; 17(4): 196–204
• The association between living arrangements and subjective health and well-being among older adults in Thailand: a special focus on skip-generation households
  Romnalin Thonglor, Keiko Nakamura, Kaoruko Seino
  J Rural Med. 2022 Oct; 17(4): 205–213
• Vulnerable groups and protective habits associated with the number of symptoms caused by pesticide application in Kratie, Cambodia: a cross-sectional questionnaire study
  Yurie Kobashi, Lihorn Srou, Masaharu Tsubokura, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Ngy Laymithuna, Songhy Hok, Manabu Okawada
  J Rural Med. 2022 Oct; 17(4): 214–220
• Regional disparities in cardiac rehabilitation volume throughout Japan based on open data from a National Database of Health Insurance Claims
  Toshikazu Ito, Issei Kameda, Naoki Fujimoto, Ryo Momosaki
  J Rural Med. 2022 Oct; 17(4): 221–227
• COVID-19 vaccination uptake and adverse events following COVID-19 immunization in pregnant women in Northern India: a prospective, comparative, cohort study
  Aravind P. Gandhi, JS Thakur, Madhu Gupta, Soundappan Kathirvel, Kapil Goel, Tarundeep Singh
  J Rural Med. 2022 Oct; 17(4): 228–235
• Rural health in the Progressive Era: revisiting the hookworm intervention in the American South
  Jonathan F. Fox, Theocharis N. Grigoriadis
  J Rural Med. 2022 Oct; 17(4): 236–247
• Geriatric nutritional risk index as a risk-factor for Clostridioides difficile infection relapse in elderly Japanese patients
  Hideki Kumagai, Yoshihiro Shioi, Daichi Tamura, Toshiki Shitomi, Chihiro Tono
  J Rural Med. 2022 Oct; 17(4): 248–254

Case Reports

• Extraregional lymph node recurrence of stage IA1 squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix after initial surgery: two case studies
  Kana Sekigawa, Hidenori Umeki, Aya Osonoi, Mikiko Tsugata, Ichiro Ono, Eisaku Ito, Keijiro Sumori
  J Rural Med. 2022 Oct; 17(4): 255–258
• Anomalous duplication of the portal vein with prepancreatic postduodenal portal vein
  Sho Kitagawa
  J Rural Med. 2022 Oct; 17(4): 259–261
• Successful endoscopic retrieval of a proximally migrated pancreatic stent in a patient with pancreaticojejunal anastomotic stenosis
  Sho Kitagawa
  J Rural Med. 2022 Oct; 17(4): 262–264
• Hybrid surgery of ventral intermediate nucleus thalamotomy using magnetic resonance-guided focus ultrasound and modulation by deep brain stimulation controls bilateral essential tremor
  Akira Tempaku
  J Rural Med. 2022 Oct; 17(4): 265–269
• Iatrogenic distal femur fracture following medial femoral supracondylar bone graft harvest: a case report and finite element analysis
  Sotetsu Sakamoto, Yasunori Hattori, Kazuteru Doi, Hiroki Yamagata, Norihiro Nishida, Takashi Sakai
  J Rural Med. 2022 Oct; 17(4): 270–275

Letters to the Editor

• The mental health of Japanese male registered nurses
  Naomi Kayauchi, Takako Nagatsu, Hiroaki Satoh
  J Rural Med. 2022 Oct; 17(4): 276
• Reply to Kayauchi et al.’s questions regarding the mental health of Japanese male registered nurses
  Yasushi Kudo, Taeko Toyoda, Nanami Sugimoto, Akizumi Tsutsumi
  J Rural Med. 2022 Oct; 17(4): 277–278
• Text mining analysis of newspaper editorials concerning the COVID-19 pandemic from a healthcare perspective
  Wakae Maeda, Yoshihisa Hirakawa, Tsukasa Muraya, Hisayuki Miura
  J Rural Med. 2022 Oct; 17(4): 279–282