Although previous studies have attempted to address the challenge of land subdivision, there is still a scarcity in the literature on how the extent of conformity to land subdivision planning regulations may be statistically and spatially analyzed. This study, therefore, explores the extent to which residential developers comply with land subdivision planning regulations in Kenya, a case study ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of point of use water treatment with flocculent-disinfectant on reducing diarrhoea and the additional benefit of promoting hand washing with soap. METHODS The study was conducted in squatter settlements of Karachi, Pakistan, where diarrhoea is a leading cause of childhood death. Interventions were randomly assigned to 47 neighbourhoods. Households in 1...

The focus of this paper is on sets of neighbourhoods that are sufficiently near each other as yet another way to consider near sets. This study has important implications in M. Katětov’s approach to topologising a set. A pair of neighbourhoods of points are sufficiently near, provided that the C̆ech distance between the neighbourhoods is less than some number ε. Sets of neighbourhoods are suffic...

Sets of probability measures which form neighbourhoods of classical probability measures are studied. An application of Jeffrey’s rule of conditioning to forming neighbourhoods of probability measures is proposed. Neighbourhoods that are closed for generalized conditioning according to this rule are characterized. They are shown to be exactly convex and bi-elastic neighbourhoods.

Two explanations of differences in undercoverage and nonresponse between neighbourhoods in a telephone survey among the inhabitants of the City of Groningen were studied: differences in population composition between neighbourhoods or in their social disorganization. Logistic multilevel analyses were performed on a sample of 7,000 inhabitants and all 14 city neighbourhoods. Differences in under...

BACKGROUND Recent work in a number of countries has identified growing geographical inequalities in health between deprived and non-deprived neighbourhoods. The health gaps observed cannot be entirely explained by differences in the characteristics of individuals living in those neighbourhoods, which has led to a concerted international public health research effort to determine what contextual...

The potential long-run effects of the pandemic on urban life have already brought forward a range debates and occasionally contradictory predictions--but what is clear that current situation affords us an opportunity to reflect how we think about neighborhoods as planning professionals academics Neighborhoods are central life, in ever-urbanizing world only likely become more important If anythi...

The objective of this cross-sectional study was to investigate differences in associations between crime rates, cycling, and weight status between people living in low and high socioeconomic status (SES) neighbourhoods. In total, 470 participants in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam were included (age: 63-70 y). Body height and weight were measured using a stadiometer and calibrated weight...

BACKGROUND There has been increasing interest in neighbourhoods' influence on individuals' health-risk behaviours, such as smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity and diet. The aim of this review was to systematically review recent studies on health-risk behaviour among adults who live in deprived neighbourhoods compared with those who live in non-deprived neighbourhoods and to summaris...