BACKGROUND Rural-to-urban migrant workers have been increasing rapidly in China over recent decades. Health related quality of life (HRQOL) may affect health service utilization. There is a lack of data on HRQOL in relation to health service utilization in Chinese rural-to-urban migrant workers. This study was aimed to explore the influence of HRQOL on health service utilization in Chinese rura...

Background and purpose: Utilization of health care services and food influence the health status. The food and health care expenditure ratios determine the importance level of them in household's consumption expenditures. We aimed to investigate the Iranian rural and urban food and health expenditure ratios inequality during 1998 to 2012. Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive longitudina...

On average, child health outcomes are better in urban than in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the nature and the causes of this rural-urban disparity is essential in contemplating the health consequences of the rapid urbanization taking place throughout the developing world and in targeting resources appropriately to raise population health. Using microdata on child health ta...

Several urban features, while not unique to Latin America, characterize the specific health challenges facing cities in this region, including the growth of midsize cities and, especially, the growth of periurban spontaneous settlements where sanitation, education, employment, health services, and links to the formal urban economy are often precarious. Health issues in cities include infectious...

The overarching goal of this article is to make explicit the multiple pathways through which the built environment may potentially affect health and well-being. The loss of close collaboration between urban planning and public health professionals that characterized the post–World War II era has limited the design and implementation of effective interventions and policies that might translate i...

Over the past decade there has been much discussion of the challenges posed by rapid urbanization in the developing world; yet the health of the urban poor, and especially those residing in low- and middle-income countries, continues to receive little political priority in most developing countries and at the global level. This research applies social science scholarship and a public policy ana...

In virtually all cities across the world, the worst health problems and premature deaths are highly concentrated in neighbourhoods that also experience a host of other social inequalities, including lack of basic sanitation and water services, high poverty rates, residential segregation, and concentrations of environmentally noxious facilities. Yet, contemporary urban planning practice, which e...

The evolution of ideas about the protection health city residents is shown, starting with emergence very science urban planning in last quarter 19th century. If works its founder, Reinhard Baumeister, relation to citizens, main attention was paid their physical condition, namely sanitation and hygiene, then Camillo Sitte Josef Stbben, who completed formation classical science, began be not only...