This book takes a broad view of urban health, emphasizing urban social factors important to population health. The editors successfully bridge urban health inquiry and public health practice by combining descriptions of issues in urban health, methods
This January 2010 issue of the Urban Health Bulletin contains citations and abstracts to 11 recently published health studies on urban health issues in Brazil, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mexico, Pakistan and Peru. 1 - Int J Epidemiol. 2010 Jan 20. Evaluation of the optimal recall period for disease symptoms in home-based morbidity surveillance in rural and…
BACKGROUND:. The research provided urgently needed information regarding incidence, risk factors, natural history, molecular epidemiology, treatment, and prevention of tuberculosis in an especially vulnerable multi-ethnic inner-city population with a high HIV seropositivity rate.. The study was part of a collaborative project on minority health, The Epidemiology, Drug Resistance, and Therapy of Tuberculosis in a Multi-Ethnic Inner City Population with a High HIV Seropositivity Rate. The 1993 Report of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, encouraged the NHLBI to establish minority centers to facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The concept for the initiative was developed by the NHLBI staff and approved by the September 1992 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council. The Request for Applications was released in October 1992.. DESIGN NARRATIVE:. The study was conducted prospectively and retrospectively in three groups of patients: ...
BACKGROUND:. The research provided urgently needed information regarding incidence, risk factors, natural history, molecular epidemiology, treatment, and prevention of tuberculosis in an especially vulnerable multi-ethnic inner-city population with a high HIV seropositivity rate.. The study was part of a collaborative project on minority health, The Epidemiology, Drug Resistance, and Therapy of Tuberculosis in a Multi-Ethnic Inner City Population with a High HIV Seropositivity Rate. The 1993 Report of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, encouraged the NHLBI to establish minority centers to facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The concept for the initiative was developed by the NHLBI staff and approved by the September 1992 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council. The Request for Applications was released in October 1992.. DESIGN NARRATIVE:. The study was conducted prospectively and retrospectively in three groups of patients: ...
This 4-hour session will consist of 2 panels, one which focuses on governance and policy issues, and the other on research and education, with an opportunity for guided discussion following each panel. The session will begin with a poll to assess audience awareness of critical issues related to urban health that require urgent issues that the university community should address. Poll questions will be reviewed at the end of the session ...
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This course is designed to allow public health practitioners (and people in other allied health fields) to understand the challenges that come with doing research in urban settings. This course will be taught in a seminar format, by asking students to read a paper for each session, which will then be discussed during class. This discussion follows a brief lecture by one of the instructors in order to help students link theoretical concepts to the paper and the topic under discussion.
Researchers have been measuring and describing health disparities in the United States for well over a century. Despite this, persistent health disparities cont...
For a successful cooperation these different traditions and ways of working need to be understood and respected.. In this context, there is great interest in established approaches to building bridges. These include so-called Integrated Programs, e.g. Healthy Cities, Socially Integrative Cities or Agenda 21.. ...
Mobilize community partnerships to solve health problems through identification of partners, leadership in coordinating, convening and building coalitions ...
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The readings shown here are samples from the most recent offering of the course. The live course reading list is updated with each offering through a news room page called the City News Desk ...
Auf den „Deutschen Studienpreis 2018 der Körber-Stiftung können sich Verfasser/innen innovativer Doktorarbeiten aller Fachrichtungen bewerben, die ihre Promotion im Jahr 2017 mit magna oder summa cum laude abschließen / abgeschlossen haben (es gilt der Zeitpunkt der mündlichen Prüfung). Der Wettbewerbsbeitrag soll in max. 40.000 Zeichen die zentralen Ergebnisse des Promotionsprojekts spannend und auch für Fachfremde verständlich darstellen. Eine Jury wählt aus den eingereichten Beiträgen jene aus, die von besonderer gesellschaftlicher Relevanz sind. Der gesellschaftliche Wert einer Forschungsarbeit kann zum Beispiel Folgendes betreffen: Innovative Verfahren oder Produkte, zukunftsweisende Modelle für die Organisation des Gemeinwesens oder sachkundige Orientierung in aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Streitfragen.. Die drei Spitzenpreise in den Sektionen Sozialwissenschaften, Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften sowie Natur- und Technikwissenschaften sind mit je 25.000 Euro dotiert, die ...
Wow, my second thread in just as many minutes - Im on a roll!. In your experience, what citys population has the worst attitude about outsiders or just a general sense of snobbery. Im thinking Scottsdale AZ is pretty bad as well as Edina MN. It seems like every time I go to Scottsdale I am saddened that I dont have a perfect tan and a perfectly proportioned body. Thoughts?
Delivering goods in cities is a big challenge: new motive powers, increasing amount of shipments (based on e-commerce) and the competitiveness of city centres are good reasons for cities to think about new solutions for delivering goods. Furthermore, there are existing EU-guidelines for a better, sustainable and environmental friendly transport of goods within cities.
Nasjonalt senter for e-helseforskning skal samle, produsere og formidle kunnskap myndighetene trenger for å utvikle og iverksette en kunnskapsbasert politikk på e-helsefeltet.
The city centre is the (often historical) area of a city where commerce, entertainment, shopping, and political power are concentrated. The term is commonly used in many English-speaking countries and has direct equivalents in many other languages. However, noticeably, in the United States, the term downtown is commonly used to denote a city centre, and in Canada the terms city centre and downtown are used interchangeably. In Australia, the term Central Business District is widely used to refer to the city centre, but usage of the term City Centre is increasing, especially in Melbourne. In South Africa, CBD is used in formal contexts, but in informal contexts, the city centre is referred to as town, and despite the growth of decentralised CBDs such as Sandton and Umhlanga town continues to refer to the original CBDs of cities. In many cities, the Central Business District (CBD) is within the city centre, but the concept city centre differs from the CBD. The concept of the CBD ...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Zidovudine therapy in an inner city population. AU - Samuels, Jonathan E.. AU - Hendrix, Josephine. AU - Hilton, Madeline. AU - Marantz, Paul R.. AU - Sloan, Victor. AU - Small, Catherine Butkus. PY - 1990/9. Y1 - 1990/9. N2 - To determine the compliance and tolerance with zidovudine (azi-dothymidine or AZT) therapy among poor, minority, and intravenous drug-using patients, data were collected on all AIDS and ARC patients followed for at least 4 weeks in a New York City Human Immunodeficiency Virus clinic. Ninety-nine patients received zidovudine, of whom 75% were males, 92% were minorities, and 59% had a history of intravenous drug use. Of the 99 patients, 72 had AIDS and 27 had ARC with T-helper (CD4) lymphocytes ≤500 mm3. Eighty-seven of the 99 patients (88%) were compliant with zidovudine therapy. Fifty-seven percent of these had at least one adverse drug reaction requiring dose reduction (44%) or cessation (13%). Adverse reactions were similar to those reported in other ...
Abstract:. Introduction: Assessment of drug use pattern using the World Health Organization (WHO) drug use indicators is a vital step to promote rational drug usage. The objective of the study was to assess the prescription format and adherence to WHO core prescribing indicators in urban health centre, Chetla.. Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the current prescribing practices at Urban Health Centre, Chetla. Total 360 new prescriptions prescribed by doctors at outpatient department (OPD) were selected on 2 working days per week for a period of 3 weeks, i.e. total 6 working days using census method.. Result: The average number of drugs prescribed per encounter or mean was 2.14(SD 1.058) and the percentage of prescriptions with an antibiotic or injection was 39.4% and 8.6% respectively. The percentage of drugs prescribed by generic name and from an essential drug list was 69.3% and 85.5% respectively. Prescriptions prescribed with fixed dose combination were ...
I am honored and excited to take on this new leadership role at the IUHR and within Bouve College and the University. Building upon the work of the IUHR Founding Director, Dr. Hortensia Amaro, and the leadership of John Auerbach, we are committed to re-establishing the IUHR as a focal point and intellectual home at NEU for inter-disciplinary urban health research. We will continue to do this through the engagement of inter-disciplinary faculty, and undergraduate and graduate students form Bouve and campus wide who share a commitment to urban health and social justice.. ...
Elizabeth Citys population continued to shrink in 2016, but not by as much in prior years, new Census data show.. The data also show the citys demographics are changing, as its becoming older and whiter.. The Daily Advance reviewed the data after City Manager Rich Olson reported Friday that the U.S. Census Bureau had released its 2016 population estimates. In highlights, Olson pointed out the citys population is now 18,025, down 3.5 percent from 2010 but only down 0.5 percent from 2015.. Olson also noted the citys population shrank by 1.3 percent from 2014 to 2015. Data also show the city lost population by almost 1 percent annually from 2012 to 2014.. Coupled with an uptick in median household income, Olson expressed optimism the city is poised for growth. Increased enrollment at Elizabeth City State University, new housing construction and full apartment complexes are all working in the citys favor, he noted.. The Census data show the citys median household income also rose about 8 ...
http://www.northeastern.edu/research/centers/institute-on-urban-health-research/ View Website » The Institute on Urban Health Research (IUHR) is devoted to research and its practical application in an effort to improve the health and well-being of the residents of Boston and other urban communities. The IUHR is focused on exploring social determinants of health in urban settings, the promotion of health equality and the elimination of health disparities. The Institute examines the efficacy of programs and interventions to inform health care practices, policies, and training.. ...
This event will focus on innovative approaches to improving urban health both in the United States and abroad. Jeffrey Hom, MD, MPH, is a policy advisor in the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, where he provides guidance to the Health Commissioner on programs and policies related to the well-being of all Philadelphians. He is also a board-certified internist and cares for patients at the Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia. He remains committed to public service, caring for underserved populations and the application of research to advance public health. Hom has contributed to health care and public health efforts in San Francisco, Boston, and Shiprock, New Mexico, as well as internationally in Lesotho and Cambodia, all of which have deepened his desire to improve community well-being, pursue health equity and advance social justice. His present focus is on substance use, in particular issues around access to treatment and harm reduction. He will present on Opioids and substance ...
Urban Health: Public Health Lessons from Los Angeles. Wharton School of Business October 18, 2007. Jonathan E. Fielding, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A Director of Public Health and Health Officer L.A. County Department of Public Health. Los Angeles County - Background. 4,300 square miles...
To the Editor: Academic researchers and staff of Divisions of General Practice often perceive that urban general practitioners dont have time to participate in various practice development or research activities, or even that they dont have enough time overall. What does this really mean?. ...
Previous traffic studies found 500 spaces to be an average deficit, City Center Mark Baker said, though that number has since been scaled back to 480. Baker said the project would accommodate city workers and visitors as well as City Center visitors.. At previous meetings, the zoning board requested alternative plans to be presented, they were provided but City Center Authority attorney Matthew Jones said all five alternative plans would have created the same zoning issues as well as other zoning deficiencies. Jones said the variance is needed specifically because of the solar panels under the solar access provision of the city zoning code.. They are not zoning compliant and therefore we dont believe they represent a reasonable alternative, Jones said of the alternatives.. The nearby Mouzon House restaurant owners, the Pedinotti family, has continued to speak out against the project, fearing the structure could force them out of business. Owner David Pedinotti said the initial plans for the ...
Between 2013 and 2043, Wellington City forecasts indicate that Te Aro will have the greatest increase in household type Group households.
Only days after U.S. President Donald J. Trump spoke about the situation in Sweden, a live hand grenade was found in a park in the city. Police say they were looking for a weapon in connection with a shooting in the same area but dont believe the grenade had anything to do with the shooting leading to speculation from many of what the object was doing there ...
Located in heart of the regional city of Bathurst, Bathurst City Centre features Woolworths, four mini-majors and more than 38 specialty stores.
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Introduction. With reference to named examples, explain how governments are attempting to overcome the problems of rapid urbanisation. Urbanisation is the rapid movement of people from rural areas into urban areas. This generally occurred in MEDCs in the mid 19th Century, and is currently occurring in LEDCs. Urbanisation has many negative effects on a city, these can include deindustrialisation, housing problems, ethnic minority groups and poor quality of life. Deindustrialisation is the movement of manufacturing industries away from inner city areas. New technologies which start up in the area require a smaller work force. This leads to unemployment. What jobs are available are split into two jobs with half the wage, this leads to under employment where people can barely afford to live. ...read more. Middle. Quality of life criteria have been used to highlight the substandard housing, educational disadvantage, ill-health, deprivation and poor environments (e.g. pollution). The residential ...
Faculty Fellows are full-time Hunter College faculty members whose research involves urban public health and who wish to conduct their research under the aegis of the Center. The Center provides Fellows with scientific and administrative support. Fellows, in turn, provide expertise to other aspects of the Centers mission-driven work and serve as mentors to Center staff. Past Faculty Fellows include:. Donna Nickitas, PhD, RN, ...
Once a small port-city, Amsterdam began to resemble the bustling city we know today by the early modern era. In fact, during Amsterdams Golden Age-between 1585 and 1663-the city population grew fivefold (Abrahamse, 2010). As a corollary, the city of Amsterdam requested from the State of Holland to expand its areal scope and territorial jurisdiction in 1609. This meant absorbing some illegally built suburbs outside of old Amsterdams ambit of jurisdiction, for example the Jordaan neighbourhood. But most interesting of this 17th-century metropolitan plan is the introduction of functional zoning. A prized example of this zoning imposition is a lasting residential area, that marks the edge of the canal belt, for Amsterdams most elites: Prinsengracht, Keizergracht, and Herengracht. But this new zoning plan also affected industries. As new residential areas were sectioned off, noxious industries were also forcibly relegated to outside the city, to maintain a sanitised and refined centre. This ...
The pandemic is an opportunity for cities to dramatically rethink use of housing, transport and public spaces in ways that would serve all citizens, especially the socially vulnerable
Presidents Medals Student Awards are considered the most prestigious and long-lasting awards in architectural education in the world.
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Bicycle commuting in The City increased by 10 percent from 2008 to 2009, a rise in activity that moved San Francisco into fourth place nationally in the category. Overall, 2.98 percent of The Citys population biked to work in 2009, a rate that placed San Francisco just behind Seattles 2.99 percent mark, which was theRead more...
Dentists in Glasgow City Centre are professional physicians who deal with oral health and conditions. Their duties range from general dental...
Priority Placements is a leading recruitment agency based in Dublin city centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, and Clonee, Co. Meath specialising in Accountancy, Financial Services, IT, HR, Business Support, Construction, Engineering, Marketing, & Sales.
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Rochdale Canal Lock Number 90, Approximately 30 Metres West of Albion Bridge is a Grade II listed building in City Centre, Manchester, England. See why it was listed, view it on a map, see visitor comments and photos and share your own comments and photos of this building.
Downloadable (with restrictions)! The distribution of city populations has attracted much attention, in part because it constrains models of local growth. However, there is no consensus on the distribution below the very upper tail, because available data need to rely on legal rather than economic definitions for medium and small cities. To remedy this difficulty, we construct cities from the bottom up by clustering populated areas obtained from high-resolution data. We find that Zipfs law for population holds for cities as small as 5,000 inhabitants in Great Britain and 12,000 inhabitants in the US. We also find a Zipfs law for areas. JEL: R11, R12, R23
It is interesting to note that the average plasma concentrations of all studied microelements, except for lithium, did not deviate markedly from the physiological standard (Table 1). At the same time, the quartile analysis of the microelement status in the large city population established that the distribution patterns differ significantly from the a priori expected Gaussian distribution by a large number of parameters.. It is important to emphasize that this tendency fully applies not only to microelements but also to the elements classified as principal biogenic ones. So, the distribution pattern of the tested persons by potassium concentration showed that more than a third of the patients (33.7%) were at the lower limit of normal (quartile 1), which indicates latent hypokaliemia (Fig. 1A).. A similar situation is observed for the blood concentration of sodium, although its shift is smoother as compared to the distribution pattern for blood potassium (Fig. 1B). Nevertheless, hyponatremia and ...
ZONES, a new charging system and even season tickets are among the measures being proposed to tackle parking woes in and around Stirling city centre.
Inside the weekend-long RAW POP UP / LAB at Miamis Brickell City Centre, which brought together art, music, performance and more into one setting.
City Centre Siliguri is a milestone in Siliguris evolution as a metropolis comprising a multi-utility complex that comprises Shopping plaza, multiplex, food court, entertainment arena, gaming zone, office block and banquet halls.. ...
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D. L. Fildes Whats in the shed? A view from Healthy Cities Illawarra, Fifth Global Conference of the Alliance for Healthy Cities, 24-27 October, (2012). ...
To recognize National Hispanic Heritage Month, GAPS Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) department is hosting a series of district-wide programming including three virtual keynote speakers. Latinas/os/x in Albany comprise roughly 13% of the citys population, and the GAPS school community has over 21% students who identify as Latina/o/x. The demographic in GAPS is greater than […] ...
Today the worlds biggest art festival hits Edinburghs gardens and closes for three weeks! The citys population doubles in size as people from all over...
Engagement is by no means a new thing in the development and planning of cities. In the past decades, the question of how best to do engagement processes has been high up on the agenda in many urban debates. It is increasingly written into policies and strategies as a requirement. While we see many different attempts at rethinking these processes of engagement and innovating around tools and methods for dialogue, it is also a topic of recurrent frustration. Its difficult, its messy, its time consuming; and what does it really matter?. We all know the critique of participation being reduced to mere tokenism when citizens are invited to a public hearing meeting to discuss a city plan. And while this may indeed be true in many instances it seems valuable to shift the conversation to talk about different forms of participation serving different purposes, and identifying the different needs for participation and co-creation and let that become a driver for new ways working and together solving ...
The problem with Airbnb is its success! When it first began it was a beautiful simple idea for people to go to another place and share a room in a local persons home and that was it. There was a mutuality about it so if you built up a good reputation you could stay in other cites just as people came to stay in your city in your home.. Now it is big business and it is destroying communities and making city centre renting unaffordable for local people. Who wants to live in an apartment where every day/weekend visitors are dragging their suitcases into your building and then having a raucous time as they enjoy their ability to stay cheaply in your city? What will happen to the vital hotel industry and the jobs that are required in the visitor economy hospitality sector?. Already other cities are rising up and demanding that Airbnb be curtailed as it is negativley affecting residents enjoyment of their own home city. Most landlords who own city centre properties are deciding that they can make so ...
This research shows that the percentage of green space in peoples living environment has a positive association with the perceived general health of residents. Green space seems to be more than just a luxury ... (See Link)
This graphic depicts the share of the urban population in France from 2005 to 2014 with forecasts from 2016 to 2020. The share of French residents living in urban aeras continuously rose between 2005 and 2014 and is expected to further increase in the following years. In 2017, the share of the French urban population should reach nearly 80 per cent.