virtual technology can be a useful tool for designing models of healthy urban environments. the resilience and sustainability in any urban environment involves the establishment and maintenance of the health of its citizens. the well-being of youth, the future workforce of every society, is a highly important consideration in the design of cities. cities are only truly sustainable when the work...

There is a tradition of planning cities and their infrastructure to successfully tackle communicable disease arising from urban development. Non-communicable disease follows a different course. Development brings in its wake a basket of adverse health and health equity outcomes that are proving difficult to tackle. In response, within Phase V of the European Healthy Cities Network, municipaliti...

Introduction: Hospitals as one of the main organizations of rendering services and the most costly operational units of the health system are of special importance. Meanwhile, nurses play a vital role in continuity of care, improvement of health, and productivity of the entire organization. This study was conducted with the aim of ranking hospitals of Yazd medical sciences university based on t...

Virtual technology can be a useful tool for designing models of healthy urban environments. The resilience and sustainability in any urban environment involves the establishment and maintenance of the health of its citizens. The well-being of youth, the future workforce of every society, is a highly important consideration in the design of cities. Cities are only truly sustainable when the work...

extended abstractintroductiontoday, large number of world’s major cities is located in coastal environments these towns have and all important positions in the economic, cultural and social functions. coastal areas and the cities located in they are economically very important in terms of the environment, sensitive to many of factors influencing and physically, against a variety of natural haza...

This article analyzes the development of primary care (PHC) within the Unified Health System (SUS) in large Brazilian cities. The decision to adopt a policy of PHC represented an incremental reform of the health system through the Family Health Strategy (FHS). The methodological approach of the article uses cross-sectional data grouped around two years (2008 and 2012) to evaluate the developmen...

Between 1900 and 1930 typhoid fever other waterborne diseases were largely eradicated from U.S. cities. This achievement required a mix of technological, scientific, economic, bureaucratic innovations. article examines how the interaction those forces influenced water sanitary infrastructure provision during 19th early 20th centuries. I document sharp link between investments declines in diseas...