Virtually all countries report population and other data as urban or rural, but specific definitions vary greatly as to the geographic units used and how populous an urban place must be. Many countries recognize urban as including overflow and suburbs outside municipal limits, giving rise to additional definitions such as urbanized areas and metropolitan areas. This article discusses the US def...

Urban and rural places are integrated through economic ties and population flows. Despite their integration, most studies of road safety dichotomize urban and rural places, and studies have consistently demonstrated that rural places are more dangerous for motorists than urban places. Our study investigates whether these findings are sensitive to the definition of urban and rural. We use three ...

INTRODUCTION The primary purpose of this article is to demonstrate the role that age, gender, and place play in rural-urban differences in mortality, in order to better develop policy to reduce these differences. METHODS In 2006, the Canadian Institute for Health Research published a major epidemiological investigation into the morbidity and mortality experience of Canadians, using mortality ...

â â â â â â â  abstract â  this paper aims at determining the degree of development of urban places of east azerbaijan province and analyzing the trend of regional inequalities of the province in 1365-1385. the study area consists of urban places of east azerbaijan province in 1365-1385. the method of the study is descriptive-analytical. the study consists of thirty nine indices including healt...

Most demographic literature contrasts urban and rural places as though they were always uniquely distinct places. However, as the urban transition progresses, a considerable middle ground has been developing in human settlements. Urban places are socially and environmentally more complex and variable than ever before and rural places are more urbanlike than ever before. These transformations su...

EDEN, a famous garden, is also an acronym for the Electronic Democracy European Network, a project involving a consortium of public administrations (local authorities), academic institutions and technology companies. The thirty-month project aims to improve communication between the administrations and citizens in decision-making processes to do with urban planning, and at time of writing is in...

Urban places and health equity are two of the most challenging concepts for 21st century environmental health. More people live in cities than at any other time in human history and health inequities are increasing. Health inequities are avoidable differences in the social, environmental and political conditions that shape morbidity and mortality, and disproportionately burden the poor, racial,...

this paper aims at determining the degree of development and analyzing the trend of inequalityâ in urban places of ostans of iran in 1365-1385. data collected in the three last censuses for all the urban places of the ostans have been used in this study. the method of the study is descriptive-analytical. the study consist of fifty four indices including health, cultural, economical, infrastruct...