The authors describe the emergence of syphilis in Dalmatia, the coastal part of Croatia, at the very end of the 15(th) and the beginning of the 16(th) century, its presence up to the 20(th) century, making reference to the most important physicians that tried to cure the new disease. The archives of Dalmatian towns, their statutes, some literary works, travel writers, physician books, and artic...

With the proposal of land planning strategy and development GIS information technology big data, geographic data are widely used in field urban rural planning, providing new technical support for implementation “muti-planning integration”. As reserve force development, small towns have great research value. This study selects Shuibu Town Taishan city to construction management Urban Land databa...

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The Alpine settlement system is of key relevance for sustainable development in the mountain region. However, maps on European scale indicate almost no cities Alps but only a few small towns. We argue that differentiated mapping approach should involve medium and settlements regions, as they have high functional importance surrounding area. present an analytical based demographic accessibility ...

This article studies the relation between rural industry and urban service functions in Mälardalen and the Southeast of Sweden 1820-90. The conclusion is that the general dynamic influence of towns highlighted in many British studies cannot be found in Sweden. Despite an overall increase in trade, financial services and information during the nineteenth century, Swedish towns did not in general...

During the past thirty years the city of New Haven and adjacent towns have experienced four outbreaks of poliomyelitis. Three of these outbreaks have been extensive; in the other, the cases reported were fewer but there were definitely more than is the usual experience in inter-epidemic years. In 1932 Paul, Trask, and Salinger' published data relating to two of these poliomyelitis epidemics whi...

From the analysis of the national Mental Health policy, formulated in the past years, and from the experiences developed after 1987, it is sought to: understand how Brazilian Health System has contributed to the development of the psychiatric reform in towns; verify how the assistance offered in those towns is making the psychiatric reform principles feasible as well as improving the users livi...

INTRODUCTION IN the mid-nineteenth century, Plymouth ranked as one of Britain's most unhealthy towns.' Overcrowding was as bad as that encountered in all but the most pernicious blackspots of London, Liverpool, or Manchester.2 Between 1841 and 1850, the rate of mortality had averaged twenty-five per thousand, a figure as high as the worst of the nation's industrial cities3 (Table I). Rapid popu...

OBJECTIVE To examine the wellbeing of families of male mine-workers living in remote mining towns in Australia. METHODS Through an extensive review of available (but limited) social science literature on mining towns this paper explores and identifies the key social issues and problems of mining towns. Social science and health-related research are used to argue that there are several factors...