BACKGROUND This study examined whether characteristics of the residential built environment (i.e. population density, level of mixed land use, connectivity, accessibility of facilities, accessibility of green) contributed to educational inequalities in walking and cycling among adults. METHODS Data from participants (32-82 years) of the 2011 survey of the Dutch population-based GLOBE study we...

making an informed decision with regards to a suitable business location or site selection for organizations is becoming challenging for business decision makers globally; and even more challenging in business environment that are saddled with uncertainties. the continues raise of multiple criteria variation of site preferences has also necessitated the application of advanced decision making t...

In Tokyo, as residential areas exist in the urban areas and are composed of areas owned by individual land owners, basically spatial changes are brought by redevelopments of each sites conducted by individual circumstances and motivations. Continuous redevelopments and spatial changes can be found dispersedly in areas. Once the spatial change in a certain site occurred in an area as a building,...

The last decade has seen a substantial growth in the development of residential care facilities (assisted living facilities). Evaluation of the quality of care in this service delivery sector has been hampered by the lack of a consensus definition of quality and the lack of reliable instruments to measure quality. Founded on extensive research on nursing home care quality, a field test of the R...

OBJECTIVE To identify which characteristics of the physical and organizational environments of residential care facilities (RCFs) need to be known to support the placement process of seniors with cognitive and physical disabilities. DESIGN We used a 2-round postal Delphi survey based on the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method with 2 groups of experts. PARTICIPANTS Participants are representati...

We investigated the influence of social relations on health outcomes in very late life by examining the support-efficacy convoy model among older adults who resided in three different residential environments (centenarians in private homes, n = 126; centenarians in assisted living facilities, n = 55; centenarians in nursing homes, n = 105). For each group, path analytic models were employed to ...

OBJECTIVE To assess patients' opinions on the perceived benefit of treatment delivered during their stay in a residential facility. METHOD We administered the Opinions on Curative Factors Questionnaire (OCFQ), which was developed from previous studies and assesses several treatment modalities and therapeutic factors, to a sample of 157 severely ill psychiatric patients admitted to a residenti...

http://www.jstor.org Infection Prevention and Control in Residential Facilities for Pediatric Patients and Their Families Author(s): Judith A. Guzman-Cottrill DO, Karen A. Ravin MD, Kristina A. Bryant MD, Danielle M. Zerr MD, Larry Kociolek MD and Jane D. Siegel MD Source: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 34, No. 10 (October 2013), pp. 10031041 Published by: on behalf of Cambri...

j Abstract After legislative changes in 1978, Italian psychiatry underwent a thorough overhaul, with the gradual closure of all Mental Hospitals. A nation-wide network of Departments of Mental Health now deliver outpatient and inpatient care, but also run semi-residential and residential facilities (the latter with 2.9 beds per 10,000 inhabitants). Hospital care is delivered through small psych...

The words “missing child” call to mind tragic and frightening kidnappings reported in the national news. But a child can be missing for many reasons, and the problem of missing children is far more complex than the headlines suggest. Getting a clear picture of how many children become missing—and why—is an important step in addressing the problem. This series of Bulletins provides that clear pi...