As more and more firms adopted internet-related technology, many forecasters predicted that the internet would change both the way Americans do business and where they do business. Essentially, the predictions presented two possible scenarios on the latter point. In one scenario, the internet would bring firms together into a single “global village,” suggesting internet technology would diffuse...

In recent years, there have been few reports in the literature of interventions using a lay health advisor approach in an urban area. Consequently, little is known about how implementation of this type of community health worker model, which has been used extensively in rural areas, may differ in an urban area. This article describes the implementation of the East Side Village Health Worker Par...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Several studies have shown wide prevalence of vitamin D deficiency with serum 25(OH)D <49.9 nmol/L in urban Indians related to their poor sunshine exposure and skin pigmentation. However, there is limited information in rural Indians. We hypothesized presence of higher 25(OH)D in rural subjects as compared to urban because of farming related abundant sunshine exposure. ...

In the increasingly serious aging China, aged service is the provision of one of the most urgent and important public services to citizens, and private facilities has become an important service force with the aged service market opening in China. This study aims to explore the spatial variation in the accessibility of residential aged care facilities (RACFs) and compared the service capacity o...

Recent policies in China have encouraged rural-urban circular migration and an “amphibious” flexible status of settlement, reacting against the recent risks economic fluctuation cities. Rural land, as a form insurance welfare, can handle random hazards, new Land Management Law guarantees that rural migrants who settle city maintain their rights to farmland, homesteads, collective income distrib...

To examine rural-urban differences in the relationships of sociodemographic, social network, and lifestyle factors to mortality in middle-aged men, we used the data from a community based prospective cohort study, the Komo-Ise study. The subjects were all men aged 40-69 years living in Komochi Village, the rural group (n=2,295), or the downtown district of Isesaki City, the urban group (n=3,334...

Food-borne trematodes constitute a family of lung, liver and intestinal flukes that have parasitized mankind and domesticated animals since the distant past. In the modern global village, food-borne trematodes present a daunting challenge of infection with severe morbidity, despite being highly neglected as causes of disease. Urbanization is the population shift from rural to urban centers, as ...

This paper aimed to analyze Indonesia's urban redevelopment policy implemented by the Indonesian Ministry of Public Works and Housing since 2016. City without slums is a strategic program government for realizing livable, productive, sustainable settlements. Gorontalo city was one focus national slum upgrading 2017, especially Limba B urban-village, South sub-district, as largest area in City. ...