The improper layout of urban public parks leads to the difference between citizens sharing or not sharing this kind of public resource, particularly in the historical districts of mountainous cities in China. The purpose of this study is to explore the spatial equity and quantitative measures of urban public parks’ layouts by building a demand index of socially vulnerable groups sharing public ...

Hospital-based surveillance for severe diarrhoea has been recommended to assess the burden of disease due to rotavirus. However, information on healthcare-seeking patterns of residents in the hospital catchment area is needed first to obtain the burden of disease in the community using the hospital data. A community-based cluster survey was conducted in two districts of Ghana, each served by a ...

BACKGROUND In year 2000, the entire population in Indonesia was 201 million and 57.6 percent of that was living in rural areas. This paper reports analyses that address to what extent the rural structure influence the way TB patients seek care prior to diagnosis by a DOTS facility. METHODS We documented healthcare utilization pattern of smear positive TB patients prior to diagnosis and treatm...

All cities known to social scientists and historians have neighborhoods. People living in urban settings universally organize important aspects of their lives on a spatial scale that is intermediate between the household and the city. Urban authorities also tend to organize administrative ac­ tivities such as tax collection and record keeping on a similar scale. The spatial relationship between...

background :there is substantial lack of knowledge about the role of socioeconomic status (ses) indicators on life expectancy (le) within-cities, especially within mega-cities. we aimed to investigate the disparities of le within city districts of tehran, iran, and specify how ses inequalities play role on le.   methods : the death and population data for 2010 by different age, gender, and resi...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between Aedes aegypti larvae infestation rates and socioeconomic factors. METHODS Infestation rates in the urban area of the city of São José do Rio Preto, Southeastern Brazil, were calculated in January of 2005 and subsequently geocoded by address. The urban census tracts were grouped by means of main component analysis, thus producing four socioeconomic c...

Residential spatial differentiation, also called residential segregation, is a representation of the differentiation of social stratum in economic income, social status, education degree, lifestyle, and other aspects, based on an urban geographical space. In this paper, Xiamen Island is taken as example to calculate the dissimilarity index and the multi-group dissimilarity index at three scales...

Introduction: The aim of this research was to examine the role of the culture of urban regions, and to a larger extent, of local society in industrial location. According to the so-called location paradox, despite the globalization of the economy, polarization of industrial development in certain geographic areas is persistent. Consensus (and debates) from a substantial literature on industrial...

This work explores the double effect of urban compactness on building energy performance in a Mediterranean climate, namely the increase of urban heat island (UHI) intensity and the decrease of solar radiation availability on building façades. The energy demand of a test apartment has been calculated under varying conditions of UHI intensity and solar radiation for different urban textures. Res...