PURPOSE Social disparities among youth have been recognized as an important influence on disease risk later in the life cycle. Despite this, social problems are seldom assessed in a clinical setting. The primary objective of our study was to evaluate the impact of social disparities on the health of youth. METHODS A self-directed, web-based screening system was used to identify social dispari...

â â  the present study attempts to investigate the urban hierarchy in iran between 1996-2006. the research method is content and statistical analysis. the necessity data were collected by documental method. in addition to the analysis and sorting of the data regarding the situation of iranian cities based on different models such as entropy ,ginny coefficients, urban concentration index, and ra...

nowadays the quality of life is one of the factors that have special standing in the context of urban planning studies. this factor became significant due to the increasing importance of quality of life in the monitoring of public policy and its role as an efficient tool in the management and planning. urban life quality is usually measured through the surveying and evaluation of subjective per...

Previous research concerning the effects of television on children has tended to focus upon the learning of social behaviors and attitudes (2,4,5). That children’s age-related cognitive limitations would affect their perceptions of television programming and presumably mediate learning seems evident, yet this area is only now coming under frequent discussion. The purpose of this study was to ex...

Nowadays the quality of life is one of the factors that have special standing in the context of urban planning studies. This factor became significant due to the increasing importance of quality of life in the monitoring of public policy and its role as an efficient tool in the management and planning. Urban life quality is usually measured through the surveying and evaluation of subjective per...

a study of the atmospheric particulate size distribution of total suspended particulate matter(tspm) and associated heavy metals concentrations has been carried out for the urban part of sarajevo city,bosnia and herzegovina. urban particles (n=150) were collected using a high volume air sampler equippedwith a 6-stage impactor. apart from fe which has been determined by flame atomic absorption s...

introductionpopulation data is easily accessible and shows the relationship between city size and other socio-economic factors in the city indirectly, so many geographers using this type of data to gain an understanding of the structure of the cities network and distribution of the people in the different levels of urban hierarchy. in fact, urban hierarchy is the best way of space organization ...

Key Data Findings. (1) The average rural Medicare Advantage (MA) plan enrollee in 2012 experienced a quality rating of 3.60 stars (of a potential 5.0), compared with a rating of 3.71 stars experienced by urban enrollees. (2) The measured rural-urban difference in the MA plan quality is a result of the difference in the composition of the enrollment and plan availability in MA markets, rather th...