The issues of community health relative to the impact which waste management experts on the wellness of the community is central to the overall capacity of the community. This paper therefore correlates waste management with the promotion of community health for community development goals in urban cities. The gap in the study is that, the quantum of waste generated in urban cities constitutes ...

abstract urban neighborhoods are as the smallest unit of spatial organization in the city to urban stability. neighborhoods development will be considered one of the main goals of planning the urban stability development and, it is key action to achieve stable development. stable community development perspective, will strengthen the new approach, that the solving of the urban problems is perce...

Amajor feature of China’s urban transformation has been the breakdown of the danwei system and the consequent efforts at community building. Since the early 1990s when a movement for neighbourhood-based community building was launched, different practices have appeared and the urban community has changed remarkably. Whilst a number of works have documented this transition, few revealed in suffi...

Facing severe mental health disparities rooted in a complex history of cultural oppression, members of many urban American Indian (AI) communities are reaching out for indigenous traditional healing to augment their use of standard Western mental health services. Because detailed descriptions of approaches for making traditional healing available for urban AI communities do not exist in the lit...

The epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus in the community in Ghana was never investigated prior to this study. The aims of the study were: i) to assess prevalence of nasal S. aureus carriage in Ghanaian people living in an urban and a rural area, and ii) to identify phenotypic and genotypic traits of strains isolated from the two communities. Nasal swabs were collected from healthy individuals...

The association of mortality with patient factors (severity of illness, comorbidity), physician factors (specialty training, prehospitalisation visit, in-hospital consultation, volume of patients seen per physician) and healthcare organisation factors (patient-travel distances, regional beds per capita, admitting hospital-bed occupancy, admitting hospital-bed turnover, hospital location, volume...

The United Kingdom Armed Forces face an increasing requirement to accurately and rapidly map the 3D urban environment in order to support a wide range of activities including active engagement of forces, counter terrorism and peace keeping measures. The challenges faced by the UK Forces have resulted in a diverse range of mapping requirements that may overlap or differ significantly. This in tu...

BACKGROUND Bed alarm systems intended to prevent hospital falls have not been formally evaluated. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether an intervention aimed at increasing bed alarm use decreases hospital falls and related events. DESIGN Pair-matched, cluster randomized trial over 18 months. Nursing units were allocated by computer-generated randomization on the basis of baseline fall rates. Pat...

Nurse scientists are increasingly recognizing the necessity of conducting research with community groups to effectively address complex health problems and successfully translate scientific advancements into the community. Although several barriers to conducting research with community groups exist, community-based participatory research (CBPR) has the potential to mitigate these barriers. CBPR...