OBJECTIVES Canada is an increasingly urban nation, with considerable health inequities (HI) within its urban centres. While Canadian municipalities have a range of policy and planning levers that could reduce the burden of HI, little is known about how municipal employees perceive the capacities of municipal governments to address HI within their jurisdictions. This study sought to capture thes...

Municipal governments rely heavily on the sharing of data between departments as a means to provide high-quality and timely service to its citizens. Common tasks such as parcel renovations require the involvement of multiple departments such as Building, Planning, Zoning, Assessment and Tax to achieve the ultimate goals. However, the software applications used to support the work of these depar...

This article analyzes the logic behind human resources management in primary health care from the perspective of municipal health systems administrators in Brazil, rethinking the decentralization process based on mediation between Federal government guidelines and the health services' daily practice. This was a cross-sectional study using a semi-structured questionnaire applied to municipal hea...

The research findings fill a gap in the body of knowledge by presenting an effective way to evaluate the significance of on-site environmental impacts of municipal engineering works prior to the construction stage. First, 42 on-site environmental impacts of municipal engineering works were identified by means of a process-oriented approach. Then, 46 indicators and their corresponding significan...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between "waiting time to onset of municipal rehabilitation", "length of municipal rehabilitation" and the attained level of function four months after the hip fracture. METHODS Among a consecutive series of 156 patients, the 116 patients who were recommended a municipal rehabilitation sequence after discharge were included. Th...

This paper presents findings and research directions of an in-progress study examining the factors affecting successful community municipal portal diffusion. Several community municipal portal sites in the Province of Ontario, Canada are being investigated via questionnaires sent to portal administrators at six portal sites, and web surveys completed by 1,753 end-users at five of these six site...

Nanotechnology is an area of intense commercial development, and concerns have been raised about the possible impacts to the environment. Zinc oxide nanoparticles (nanoZnO) are used in transparent sunscreens and may find their way into the environment through wastewater treatment plants and through skin contact with water. The purpose of this study was to examine the bioavailability of Zn in fa...

Background: Aminoglycoside antibiotics are widely used in medical centers, particularly to treat infections. The resistance developed against these agents is a huge concern in health care. A number of researchers have reported that hospital and municipal wastewaters are among the most important dissemination sources of these agent into the environment. Some, however, do not agree with this opin...

SUMMARY: Investigations into landfill simulation reactors and a full scale landfills are used for predicting emissions from municipal solid waste landfills. In the present study the water flow and solute transport through a landfill simulation reactor and a full scale landfill (using the same waste) has been investigated. The results indicate that, due to preferential flow pathways the water fl...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: ETS: Emission Trading Scheme; PMR: Partnership for Market Readiness; ISEGP: Integrated Solar Energy Generation Project; IWEP: Integrated Wind Energy Project; NPAC: National Plan of Action again Climate Change; UNFCCC: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; NCCC: National Committee for Climate Change; REUNET: Renewable ...