Various accessibility measures exist to explore the performance of transport by quantifying the opportunities available at a particular, discrete location and the available means to travel both to and from these opportunities. In Australia there is currently no consistent performance measure used by regulatory authorities to evaluate accessibility in order to inform land-use planning decisions....

PURPOSE To conduct an assessment of rural environmental pollution sources and associated population mortality rates. METHODS The design is a secondary analysis of county-level data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Agriculture, National Land Cover Dataset, Energy Information Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US Census, and others. We d...

with metropolitan areas, such as hospitals with comprehensive services, a 4-year college, a local bus service, a TV station, or a Sunday paper (6). A few counties that have not qualified for MSA status on the basis of demographic characteristics have become designated as MSAs through the Federal legislative process. Specif ical ly, s ince 1983, one new MSA (Decatur, Alabama) has been created (c...

OBJECTIVES This report details the National Center for Health Statistics' (NCHS) development of the 2006 NCHS Urban-Rural Classification Scheme for Counties and provides some examples of how the scheme can be used to describe differences in health measures by urbanization level. METHODS The 2006 NCHS urban-rural classification scheme classifies all U.S. counties and county-equivalents into si...