HOUSING AND SEGREGATION OF MIGRANTS: ANTWERP IN BELGIUM

Housing and segregation of migrants: Case study: Antwerp, Belgium

HIV diagnosis delay in Antwerp, Belgium.

SIR Early diagnosis of HIV infection has many advantages; it allows timely prophylaxis against opportunistic infections such as Pneumocystis carinii and Mycobacterium tuberculosis and early recognition and treatment of HIV related complications. Moreover, counselling of people with HIV infection may reduce the further spread of the epidemic. Early diagnosis of HIV infection also has certain dis...

Validating the Rio-ifdm-street Canyon Coupling over Antwerp, Belgium

Further integration of different spatial scales in concentration modeling is important for assessing the European limit values for NO2. The local NO2-concentrations are influenced by the regional background, the local emissions and the street canyon effects. Therefore, it is important to combine all these contributions in the model chain that one wants to use for such an assessment. In this pap...

Housing Preferences of Spanish-Speaking Migrants*

In this research I investigate the housing decisions of Spanish-speaking migrants. I use methods developed by Bajari and Kahn (2002) to obtain willingness to pay measurements for the migrant groups in samples drawn from three major California cities. I then apply these results to several hypotheses that attempt to describe current migration patterns of Hispanics into increasingly segregated com...

Uptake of preventive health care among Mediterranean migrants in Belgium.

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to investigate the influence of ethnicity on the demand for preventive care by Mediterranean migrants in Belgium. DESIGN This was a survey of patient contacts with general practitioners. SETTING AND PATIENTS 33 general practitioners working in Belgian localities with the highest migrant density collaborated in the study. During two months they recorded informatio...