This paper examines a welfare issue of growing importance in many least developed countries, that of determinants of housing quality and uses the case of Ghana to add to the body of empirical knowledge. The paper presents estimates of the determinants of housing quality in Ghana using the Core Welfare Instrument. The empirical analysis based on the Logistic and Ordinary Least Square regressions...

This paper analyzes the urban-rural land-use change of Chongqing and its policydimensional driving forces from 1995 to 2006, using high-resolution Landsat TM(Thematic Mapper) data of 1995, 2000 and 2006, and socio-economic data from bothresearch institutes and government departments. The outcomes indicated that urban-ruralland-use change in Chongqing can be characterized by two major trends: Fi...

This paper examines land development using an integrated approach that combines residential decisions about choices of community in the Southern Appalachian region with the application of the GIS (Geographical Information System). The empirical model infers a distinctive heterogeneity in the characteristics of community choices. The results also indicate that socioeconomic motives strongly affe...

although vast differences in standard of living exist among the native-born residents of Chinese cities, the distinction between all urban natives and rural migrants runs deeper. it is, in fact, the fundamental social division in Chinese cities for several reasons, including labor market segmentation that sees migrants doing dirty, dangerous, and low-paying work; institutional rules that favor ...

• Commonwealth Rent Assistance has a modest but positive effect on the impact of housing costs on financial disadvantage for private renters, particularly in a number of outer suburbs in capital cities, as well as in scattered rural statistical local areas (SLAs). This bulletin is based on research by Justine McNamara, Robert Tanton and Ben Phillips of the AHURI RMITNATSEM Research Centre. The ...

Even though health inequalities are conditioned by many aspects of the environment, much of the existing research focuses on the social environment. This emphasis has the effect to neglect other environmental aspects such as its physical dimension. The physical environment, which is linked to housing conditions, may contribute to the uneven distribution of health. In this study, we examined 19 ...

OBJECTIVE This study was undertaken to examine the role of gender as it relates to access to housing among individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) in Canada. DESIGN An exploratory, qualitative approach was used to assess the perspectives of Canadian housing experts. The focus of inquiry was on the role of gender and associated intersections (eg, ethnicity) in pathways to housing access a...

This paper presents the nutritional status of the elderly Brazilian population (60 years and older) based on a probabilistic sample survey in 1989. Nutritional assessment used the BMI (kg/m2), with cut-off points recommended by the WHO (1995). Socio-demographic variables included age, gender, region and place of residence in the country (urban/rural area), income, education, and housing conditi...

Anlr. Lat'Hon is a researcher at the National Swedish Institute for Building Research In Lund, Sweden. She was trained as an architect/ town planner and has a Ph.D. in Architecture. After working"for about fifteen yeatS as a town planner for Swedish municipalities as well as for the government ofBotswana, she started her research on housing in Botswana, with a focus on the transition from tradi...

The fight against malaria is currently ongoing in many countries where the disease is still endemic. The overall target is to eliminate malaria in all nations, regardless of their malaria burden, by 2030. Currently, the disease has been eliminated mainly in low-burden and unstable malaria areas globally. However, in high-burden countries, particularly in Africa, the disease is still not elimina...