نتایج جستجو برای: urban dwellers

تعداد نتایج: 172642  

2007
Mangala De Zoysa

The definition of coastal forest shelterbelts in urban landscapes is highly complex. Growing of Casuarina equisetifolia as a small shelterbelt on the beach in Hambantotota City was implemented to protect the beautiful natural sand dunes, preserve visual amenity and be a barrier to seawater salt spay. The casuarina shelterbelt has become popular because it was the only undamaged area in Hambanto...

2007
Adebola A. Adedimeji Femi O. Omololu Oluwole Odutolu

This study examined the relationship between HIV/AIDS risk perception and protective behaviour among sexually-active urban young slum dwellers in Ibadan, Nigeria. The multistage sampling techniques were used for selecting 1,600 respondents aged 15-24 years. Of these, 1,042 (65%) respondents who reported unprotected sex in the last three months were selected for analysis. Although the sexually-a...

2015
Hubert Amu Kwamena Sekyi Dickson

BACKGROUND Premised that health insurance schemes in Africa have only been introduced recently and continue evolving, various concerns have been raised regarding their effectiveness in improving utilisation of orthodox health care and the reduction of out-of-pocket expenditures for their population, particularly women. OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of socio-demographics on health insurance...

2016
Nandita Saikia Jayanta Kumar Bora Domantas Jasilionis Vladimir M. Shkolnikov

BACKGROUND Understanding the socioeconomic and regional divides in disability prevalence in India has considerable relevance for designing public health policies and programs. OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study is to quantify the prevalence of disability by gender, region (rural and urban; states and districts), and caste. We also examine the association between disability prevalence and...

Journal: :Journal of infection and public health 2013
Misra Shobha Duttaroy Bithika Shroff Bhavesh

BACKGROUND There is scant information available on the prevalence of parasitic infections in Gujarat, a state in Western India. The present community-based study was undertaken in the urban slums of a city in Gujarat to determine the following parameters: (a) the prevalence and type of pathogenic intestinal parasites and (b) the availability of sanitary facilities in the study population. MAT...

2007
BARBARA EVANS

Many millions of urban dwellers are excluded from formal systems of water and sanitation service delivery. Without access to piped water and acceptable sanitation services, households and individuals are forced to use limited supplies of water, often of poor quality, from unreliable sources and usually at a high cost. Safe sanitation and the means to practice hygienic behaviours are often entir...

2011
A. E. Taylor M. N. Sandeep C. S. Janipalli C. Giambartolomei D. M. Evans M. V. Kranthi Kumar D. G. Vinay P. Smitha V. Gupta M. Aruna S. Kinra R. M. Sullivan L. Bowen N. J. Timpson G. Davey Smith F. Dudbridge D. Prabhakaran Y. Ben-Shlomo K. S. Reddy S. Ebrahim G. R. Chandak

Few studies have investigated the association between genetic variation and obesity traits in Indian populations or the role of environmental factors as modifiers of these relationships. In the context of rapid urbanisation, resulting in significant lifestyle changes, understanding the aetiology of obesity is important. We investigated associations of FTO and MC4R variants with obesity traits i...

Journal: :American journal of law & medicine 2015
Stephen R Miller

Much has been written about the rise of the local food movement in urban and suburban areas. This essay tackles an emerging outgrowth of that movement: the growing desire of urban and suburban dwellers to engage rural areas where food is produced not only to obtain food but also as a means of tourism and cultural activity. This represents a potentially much-needed means of economic development ...

پایان نامه :دانشگاه بین المللی امام خمینی (ره) - قزوین - دانشکده مهندسی معماری و شهرسازی 1388

nowadays,tourism industry considered as one of the main sources of income of a country.unfortunately and despite of owning plenty of cultural historical and natural attractions, iran has not reached to a proper position in this field. besides, the historical cities of a country are considered as the income resource and national wealth of it. qazvin with a rich cultural precedent, have suitable ...

Journal: :Indian pediatrics 2008
Neeraj Mohan Srivastava Shally Awasthi Rita Mishra

We conducted this study to assess the neonatal morbidity and care-seeking behavior amongst slum and non-slum dwellers at Lucknow. One hundred and fifty neonates were recruited within 48 hours of birth from an urban Reproductive and Child Health center and followed up at 6 weeks +/- 15 days at home. Twenty five (16.6%) were lost to follow-up. Among those followed up, 46.4% (58/125) developed one...

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