The Thailand 'Rural Data Base' includes a number of variables in the social, economic, services, housing, agriculture and health fields. This data base comes from a survey at the village level. There are weaknesses in the data base--inaccuracies, missing data, etc. ... that make it difficult to...

This paper is based upon the results of two research projects that took place in very dissimilar places and contexts, at different situations in the epidemiological transition process, but lead to some important common conclusions. In both studies, a geo-systemic or socio-spatial classificatory...