In the 21 st century, shaping a future of resilient, innovative and sustainable cities through integrated approaches to energy, water, and food (EWF) systems and services poses unique challenges and opportunities (Brugmann et al., 2014). Urban EWF systems approaches are a high priority, especially as urban settings host the majority of the world's population. Cities and their EWF systems will a...

While primary health care (PHC)-based prevention and Background: management of alcohol use disorder (AUD) is clinically effective and cost-effective, it remains poorly implemented in routine practice. Systematic reviews and multi-country studies have demonstrated the ability of training and support programmes to increase PHC-based screening and brief advice activity to reduce heavy drinking. Ho...

Collaborative approaches to community health improvement such as healthy cities and communities have the potential to strengthen community capacity through leadership development. The healthy cities and communities process orients existing local leadership to new community problem-solving strategies and draws out leadership abilities among residents not previously engaged in civic life. In an e...

The author probes for differences among central cities, suburbs, and rural communities in the perceived importance of various motivations for development decisions, drawing on a mail survey of city managers/administrators in California. Central-city respondents are more inclined to “look outward” in making land-use decisions, attributing greater importance to certain regional economic and devel...

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the pandemic that invaded world in 2020, caused morethan 70 million cases and exceeded a half deaths worldwide by end of year. Age sex havebeen identified as two prominent risk factors COVID-19 deaths. Early epidemiological studies conductedin China, India, Iran revealed fewer females were infected SARS-CoV2(4-9).It is imperative for national gov...

Smart cities attempt to reach net-zero emissions goals by reducing wasted energy while improving grid stability and meeting service demand. This is possible adopting next-generation systems, which leverage artificial intelligence, the Internet of things (IoT), communication technologies collect analyze big data in real-time effectively run city services. However, training machine learning algor...

The hospital discharge process of older adults in need both medical and social care post hospitalisation requires the involvement nurses at multiple levels across different phases. This study aims to examine compare what roles, responsibilities actions take with complex needs three Nordic cities: Copenhagen (Denmark), Stockholm (Sweden) Tampere (Finland). A vignette-based interview consisting c...

Past studies document that Latino familial cultural values (i.e. familism, affiliative obedience and filial obligation) protect against depressive symptoms and promote academic resilience in adolescence. However, some studies suggest that familial cultural values differ across gender, with females reporting greater obligations and fewer freedoms compared to their male counterparts. We examined ...

AIM To develop a method that Croatian cities could use in the development of the City Health Profile and City Health Plan. The assessment concerned cities that have recently experienced the war and thus the method had to be rapid, cheap, scientifically based, sensitive, participative (involving politicians, experts, and citizens), able to produce immediate action, and to sustain the gained bene...