BACKGROUND Hypertension has been shown to start in early life and to track into adulthood. Detecting adolescents with hypertension and prehypertension will aid early intervention and reduce morbidity and mortality from the disorders. This study reports the point-prevalence of the two disorders in a semi-urban and an urban population of school-going adolescents in Nigeria. METHODS A total of 8...

People familiar with an urban environment share common spatial knowledge enabling, for instance, successful communication about places and routes. Mental representations of this spatial knowledge, as well as reasoning and communication processes are organized hierarchically. This paper introduces a hierarchical model of urban street networks motivated by shared experience of space. This model i...

extended abstractthe occurrence of natural disasters such as the earthquake has been threat human life and caused a great deal homelessness and displacement in the cities. in the early stages of dealing with such conditions one of the more important issues that is noticed by the responsible crisis management organizations is the optimum locating for contemporary settlement and organizing the li...

necessary for mental and physical health of citizens and members of urban society- especially metropolitans- is to enjoy favorite, interesting and beautiful spaces. undoubtedly, in metropolitans like isfahan and ahwaz which lack of useful and available urban lands makes the development of such spaces limited, riversides could perform such a role because of different humanistic and natural reaso...

BACKGROUND This study aims to assess the frequency, causes, and places of injuries in a nationally representative sample of Iranian children and adolescents, as well as the referral, places allocated for injured individuals. METHODS This nationwide study was conducted in 2011-2012 among 13486 elementary, secondary and high-school students who were selected by random cluster stratified multist...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Few studies have analysed the rates and correlates of physical activity in economically and geographically diverse populations. Objectives were to examine: (1) urban-rural differences in physical activity by several demographic, geographical, environmental, and psychosocial variables, (2) patterns in environmental and policy factors across urban-rural setting and socioeconomic ...