Smartphones are excellent connection tools that can join family members, continents apart, over a chat or birthday, but hinder the communication between people in same room. The different reactions to smartphones be due personal, cultural, economic combination of multiple factors with variable impacts. Several studies analysed effects on mental health as well well-being. limitation most these f...

Over the last 20 years, suburbanization has gradually turned into a key topic of analysis, whereas welfare policies have faced significant public reconfiguration towards local scale provision and development systems. Combined in such way, these two statements tell us little, they appear to be separate without any relation. This article aims at building analytical research interplays between top...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Fast-food companies have been reproached for rising obesity levels due to aggressive marketing tactics targeted at children. They have countered that parents should be held responsible considering their critical role as nutritional gatekeepers. This study examined the comparative effects of media exposure and parental mediation on Indonesian children's fast food consum...

People living in the urban area and the surrounding suburban area have disparities in exposure and health risks due to different levels of ambient air pollutants. The main objective of this study is to investigate the concentrations, seasonal variations, and related health risks of ambient air pollutants (PM10, NO2, and SO2) in urban and suburban areas of Ningbo, China. The results showed that ...

â  the purpose of this study is investigation of relationship between population dispersion and distribution of services in urban area of yazd city. descriptive-analytic methodology was used in this study according to physical devising housing and urbanization organization. yazd city is comprised of 11urban areas, with areas of 13415 (ha) and 447259 population spatial distribution of population...

BACKGROUND The potential for reduced pollination ecosystem service due to global declines of bees and other pollinators is cause for considerable concern. Habitat degradation, destruction and fragmentation due to agricultural intensification have historically been the main causes of this pollinator decline. However, despite increasing and accelerating levels of global urbanization, very little ...

Rural populations rely on physicians trained in primary care to provide emergency services. Less is known about primary care’s contribution to emergency services in urban and suburban settings. Two-thirds of family medicine and three-fourths of general internal medicine Medicare claims for emergency care are generated in urban settings, demonstrating primary care’s significant contribution to t...