industrial revolution, colonialism and spreading of patterns of development and consequently the vast rural and urban migrations and centralism in recent century caused the creation of unbalanced population distribution pattern in iran. in addition to areas in which inequalities of environmental and productive resources increase space disparity of distribution of populations, in arease like aze...

This article provides an overview of the current Chinese health care system with particular emphasis on rural-urban differences. China's post-1978 economic reforms, although they improved general living standards, created some unintended consequences, as evidenced by the disintegration of the rural cooperative medical system and the sharp reduction in the number of "barefoot doctors", both of w...

Tourism organizations have become one of the main users of the internet in recent years bysetting their own urban tourism websites. However, not all the websites are effective to promote their goals andobjectives. An effective evaluation of urban tourism websites can help organizations on how best to employ them.Using the ICTRT (Information, Communication, Transaction, Relationship and Technica...

OBJECTIVE This study explores the relationship between health access barriers and diabetes in an urban First Nations population in Canada. DESIGN Data from a self-identified urban First Nations population were collected using respondent-driven sampling (RDS). As no clear approach for regression modelling of RDS data is available, two logistic regression modelling approaches, including survey-...

INTRODUCTION Large administrative data set analyses demonstrate that geography has a significant impact on access to health care and subsequent health outcomes. In general, rural populations have poorer access to healthcare services. This article explores the reality of this issue for young adult cancer survivors. METHODS Data was of a subset of 30 participants from a larger qualitative study...

The accelerated growth of the global urban population implies an increasing demand for public services. Yet, urban centres in developing countries are unable to meet such demand – services such as sanitation are poor or inadequate to cope with the increasing rates of urbanisation and the associated higher standards of living. According to the UN 2002 Human Development Report, 2.4 billion people...