BACKGROUND The availability of places to engage in physical activity may influence physical activity levels. This study examined whether the relationship between physical activity and access to parks differs depending on adolescents' sociodemographic, housing, and neighborhood characteristics. METHODS Data were analyzed from 4010 adolescents who responded to the 2003 California Health Intervi...

In face of a dramatic decline of wild bee species in many rural landscapes, potential conservation functions of urban areas gain importance. Yet effects of urbanization on pollinators, and in particular on wild bees, remain ambiguous and not comprehensively understood. This is especially true for amenity grassland and extensively managed wastelands within large-scale residential housing areas. ...

OBJECTIVE A previous longitudinal study in rural New Hampshire showed that community mental health center clients with co-occurring schizophrenia-spectrum and substance use disorders (SZ/SUD) improved steadily and substantially over 10 years. The current study examined 7 years of prospective clinical and functional outcomes among inner-city Connecticut (CT) community mental health center client...

Exurban development, defined as residential development outside of cities and towns, occupies nearly five times more land in the United States than urban and suburban development combined. Understanding the effects of exurban development on biodiversity thus has important and wide-ranging implications for the planning, construction and stewardship of sustainable communities and surrounding rura...

INTRODUCTION The present study identified the triatomines collected in intra and peri-domestic environments, observed the occurrence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in triatomines and correlated this information with housing conditions and the fauna associated with the rural areas of the City of Itabaianinha, located in the State of Sergipe, Brazil. METHODS Quarterly visits were conducted betw...

In Poland of the 1990s, urban demand for housing land around city agglomerations increased rapidly. The decreasing profitability of agricultural production also caused farmers to become interested in the sale of agricultural land for nonagricultural purposes, and new land legislation granted them the right to sell their land. Polish counties simultaneously received self-governing status, which ...

Figure 3: Poverty density in 1992 based on small area poverty incidence (Figure 2) and the sub-county level rural population statistics from the 2002 housing and population census Figure 8: Densities of major livestock species in Uganda: a) cattle, b) sheep, c) goat and d) pigs, summarised by (rural) sub-county from the 2002 Uganda national housing and population and census (UBOS 2004). Figure ...

Sustainable Development The Minister’s Foreword in the draft guidelines states that the National Spatial Strategy, (NSS), supersedes the 1997 policy document, ‘Sustainable Development: A Strategy for Ireland’ in respect of rural housing policy. However no account is taken and no mention is made of the review of that document 1 , published in 2002 as part of Ireland’s preparation for the World S...

This article presents a discussion of rural-urban migration as a source of social and behavioral change in Ghana. It explores the extent to which the urban social environment in Ghana generates conflicts for migrants with a different value orientation and the degree of influence of the urban social environment on migrants' behavior. The first part of the discussion focuses on the nature of Gh...