Ranking of Cities According to Public Health Criteria: Pitfalls and Opportunities
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Ranking of cities according to public health criteria: pitfalls and opportunities.
Popular magazines often rank cities in terms of various aspects of quality of life. Such ranking studies can motivate people to visit or relocate to a particular city or increase the frequency with which they engage in healthy behaviors. With careful consideration of study design and data limitations, these efforts also can assist policymakers in identifying local public health issues. We discu...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.94.4.546