BACKGROUND AND AIMS The American Heart Association has recently established seven ideal cardiovascular health metrics for cardiovascular health promotion and disease reduction (i.e., non-smoking, normal body mass index, physically active, healthy diet, and normal levels of cholesterol, blood pressure and fasting blood glucose). The present study seeks to evaluate how well these metrics predict ...

Two hierarchical location-allocation models are used to locate two types of communitybased health facilities in Davao City, Philippines. Oftentimes, locating health facilities are motivated by factors such as politics and resource availability. Different optimization approaches to locating a mix of these health facilities across the rural and urban areas of the city. Computations results are ev...

background :there is substantial lack of knowledge about the role of socioeconomic status (ses) indicators on life expectancy (le) within-cities, especially within mega-cities. we aimed to investigate the disparities of le within city districts of tehran, iran, and specify how ses inequalities play role on le.   methods : the death and population data for 2010 by different age, gender, and resi...

BACKGROUND To assess the public health risk of heat waves and to set criteria for alerts for -excessive heat, various meteorologic metrics and models are used in different jurisdictions, generally without systematic comparisons of alternatives. We report such an analysis for New York City that compared maximum heat index with alternative metrics in models to predict daily variation in warm-seas...

Urban sprawl refers to the outgrowth of urban areas caused by uncontrolled, uncoordinated and unplanned growth. This outgrowth seen along the periphery of cities, along highways, and along roads connecting a city, lacks basic amenities like sanitation, treated water supply, primary health centre, etc. as planners were unable to visualise such growth during planning, policy and decision-making. ...

objectives: multiple studies have noted the positive effect of fasting on mental health improvement. the present study was conducted to determine the effect of fasting on mental health in the general population of kermanshah, iran. methods: in this analytical research, one-group pretest-posttest design was used for the evaluation of 110 residents of kermanshah city. general health questionnaire...