Differential exposure to multiple environmental burdens and benefits and their distribution across a population with varying vulnerability can contribute heavily to health inequalities. Particularly relevant are areas with high cumulative burdens and high social vulnerability termed as "hotspots". This paper develops an index-based approach to assess these multiple burdens and benefits in combi...

PURPOSE Social disparities among youth have been recognized as an important influence on disease risk later in the life cycle. Despite this, social problems are seldom assessed in a clinical setting. The primary objective of our study was to evaluate the impact of social disparities on the health of youth. METHODS A self-directed, web-based screening system was used to identify social dispari...

Urban areas present an intense mixture of economic activities and extend over a vast territory. Conventionaly, land uses were classified according to a set of criteria in a dichotomous belong or does not belong perspective. However, the association of a spatial entity to a type of land use is not absolute, but to be expressed as a possibility, notably if we are investigating a spatial system at...

This paper describes the historical processes that resulted in the considerable socioeconomic disparities that are found in South Afr ica. Owing to the spatial orientation of much of apartheid policy, these dispar ities have a distinctive geographic form, with signif icant socio-economic contrasts within rural and urban areas and bet ween urban and rural areas more broadly. It was inev itable t...

Abstract This paper presents a new facet of the regional forecasts Institute for Employment Research (IAB). For development in 2022, we report results at level administrative district types Federal on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR). Overall, 2022 suggest return to disparities that already existed before pandemic with regard unemployment employment. While there are no maj...

Needless to say, it is necessary to study the relative scales of the trade creation effect and the trade diversion effect to evaluate success of ASEAN trade integration and to determine whether or not the intra-bloc trade share is appropriate as an indicator of the progress of reducing intra-regional disparities in ASEAN. Therefore, this paper first uses descriptive statistics and some key indi...

Socioecological theory and a growing body of research suggests that geographic, racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in the prevalence of obesity are linked to disparities in the availability of food retail outlets that provide healthy food options. We examined the availability of food stores for low-income women in Kansas and tested whether food store availability was associated with ...

Efforts to cope with the legacy of our industrial cities--blight, poverty, environmental degradation, ailing communities--have galvanized action across the public and private sectors to move vacant industrial land, also referred to as brownfields, to productive use; to curb sprawling development outside urban areas; and to reinvigorate urban communities. Such efforts, however, may be proceeding...