like other developing countries, iranian cities are growing and expanding physically at a high speed. for about five decades, the only policy of the urban development plans in the field of urban growth management has been definition of the urban growth boundary (u.g.b.) which is still used without any major modifications.despite the slight evidences indicating the ineffectiveness of the current...

natural climatic conditions in urban areas can be changed by human physical environment. climate as a natural system and city as a human system have close mutual connections. urban population growth and consequent increase in urban physical expansion may lead to intensification in human activities and disturbances in the environment. this contributes to alterations in solar radiation, balance o...

equitable distribution of health system resources has been a serious challenge for long ago among the health policy makers. conducted studies have mostly ever had emphasis on equality rather than equity. in this paper we have attempted to examine both equality and equity in resources distribution.this is an applied and descriptive study in which we plotted lorenz and concentration curves to des...

To determine the prevalence, associated factors, awareness and control of dyslipidemia in Chinese living in Greater Beijing, we measured the serum cholesterol concentration in 3251 Chinese adults (age: 45 to 89 years) as participants of the population-based Beijing Eye Study 2006. Additional information on treatment of dyslipidemia was obtained using a standard questionnaire. The mean concentra...

This paper examines the trends of socioeconomic inequality in childhood undernutrition in urban India using data from all three rounds of the National Family Health Survey conducted during 1992-2005. We analyzed the prevalence of underweight (weight-for-age) among children less than three years old. The socioeconomic predictors were: household wealth and maternal education. Principal component ...

In these days, remotely sensed imagery has been widely used for GIS-T (Geographic Information Systems for Transportation). As for this approach, topological measure and spatial metrics of transportation network structure such as road layer can be considered as one of important factors in urban transportation analysis. Related to this measure, it is known that the connectivity such as alpha inde...

This study aims to investigate the concentration levels, pollution characteristics and the associated potential ecological risks of the heavy metals found in dust in the metropolitan area of Beijing, China during the winter. Dust samples were collected at 49 different spatial locations of Beijing's metropolitan area from November 2013 to January 2014, in which the concentration levels of Cd, Cr...

nowadays, most of the cities, especially metropolises of developing countries are engaged with environmental issues like air and water pollution, waste increase and etc., that lead to the environmental destruction. meanwhile sustainable urban development, provides the balance between development and the environment, and supplies the current generation needs while keep its eyes on the next gener...

background : connection between socioeconomic statuses and mental health has been reported already. accordingly, mental health asymmetrically is distributed in society; therefore, people with disadvantaged condition suffer from inconsistent burden of mental disorders. in this study, we aimed to understand the determinants of socioeconomic inequality of mental health in the female-headed househo...