Demographic change has become a major topic for Central, Eastern and Western European cities and urban regions which will be on a "non-growth or decline path" for at least the coming 25 years. Growing and shrinking communities will exist simultaneously side by side within densely urbanised regions. The trend towards further suburbanisation and dispersion observed in the 1980s in Western Europe ...

BACKGROUND Residential address is a common element in patient electronic medical records. Guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention specify that residence in a nursing home, skilled nursing facility, or hospice within a year prior to a positive culture date is among the criteria for differentiating healthcare-acquired from community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staph...

Neo-traditional developments are often comprised of mix-use neighborhoods with a town center that acts as the central commercial district that is easily accessible to the surrounding residents without a car. This paper investigates the reality of walking and biking in two such neo-traditional developments in Colorado. I compared frequency and purpose of non-car trips in two neighborhoods whose ...

Background & objectives: Health care centers are among the most important and essential centers that proper and timely access to them is one of the basic goals of social justice. The health of the individual and the community depends on the centers that provide primary health care. Rapid, timely, and inexpensive access to these centers is very important and necessary, in any community, especial...

a New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Room 313 South, 52 Washington Street, Rensselaer, NY 12144, United States b Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy, Arizona State University, Mail Code 3220, 500 N. 3rd St. Ste 200, Phoenix, AZ 85004–2135, United States c School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, 135 Western Ave., Albany, NY 12222, United States d School of S...

BACKGROUND Exploring spatial-temporal patterns of disease incidence through cluster analysis identifies areas of significantly elevated or decreased risk, providing potential clues about disease risk factors. Little is known about the etiology of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), or the latency period that might be relevant for environmental exposures, and there are no published spatial-temporal clus...

Accessibility to urban services facilities is an important element that affects the quality of life, resilience, mobility efficiency, fair use and property prices. Despite its importance, there have been few studies for effects access time service by travel modes on residential non-residential land This study analyzed driving, public transit walking prices in Seoul. According analysis multi-lev...

In January 1949, 9-year-old Betty stepped through the doors of the Cincinnati Child Guidance Home. For the next 2 years, the Home would attempt to treat her severe emotional and behavioral problems in an experimental approach called residential treatment. After 4 years of child welfare and child guidance interventions, the Home was a last resort. Betty’s home life was a mess. When she was 3, he...