BACKGROUND To assess the effectiveness of the cholera prevention activities of the Peruvian Ministry of Health, we conducted a knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) survey in urban and rural Amazon communities during the cholera epidemic in 1991. METHODS We surveyed heads of 67 urban and 61 rural households to determine diarrhoea rates, sources of cholera prevention information, and knowl...

We tried to prove that living conditions have a significant influence on somatic and functional development of children in Poland. We examined 331 11-year-old children (boys and girls) from the small town of Polkowice and villages in south-west Poland. Basic somatic traits were examined: body height, body weight and body fat. Functional traits were examined through motor trials from Eurofit tes...

The gradual spread of urbanization, the phenomenon known under the term urban sprawl, has become one of the paradigms that have characterized the urban development since the second half of the twentieth century and early twenty-first century. However, there is no unanimous consensus about what means "urbanization". The plurality of forms of human settlement on the planet difficult to identify t...

Objective: The purpose of the study is comparison of Rural and Urban Gender discrimination among the youths. Subjects and Method: For the purpose of study the subjects were one hundred, twenty (120), sixty (30+30=60) rural boys and girls from Belagatta, Madakaripura Sasalahatty villages of Chitradurga Taluk, sixty (30+30=60) urban boys and girls from Chitradurga town of Karnataka State. Between...

Land in rural China has been under a separate and closed management system for decades even after the urban land reform that started in the late 1980s. The blurred property rights over rural land have been hindering the rural welfare as surplus rural land in sub-urban areas cannot be circulated into more economic use without first being requisitioned by the state. This traditional conversion pr...

Residential vacancy is a visible symptom of community decline in peri-urban villages China. Mixed-use development has emerged as possible approach for land use planning to help mitigate and residential vacancy. By applying an integrated framework, this study explores whether mixed (MLU) can counter based on the classification four types villages. Results show that degree MLU rate both present i...

Using actor-network theory (ANT), this paper explores the process and mechanisms of rural space reconstruction in China post-urbanization era. In context urban–rural integration development China, villages have become diversified. They are not only living spaces villagers, but they also consumption urban residents. Through a case study typical village Yangtze River Delta, highlights that spatia...

Urban parks provide important environmental, social, and economic benefits to people and urban areas. The literature demonstrates that proximity to urban parks is one of the key factors influencing people's willingness to use them. Therefore, the provision of urban parks near residential areas and workplaces is one of the key factors influencing quality of life. This study designed a solution b...

Urbanization, industrialization and transformation of livelihoods peri-urban communities are issues concern for many urban areas in the country. The process adjusting administrative boundaries has turned rural into inner cities due to requirements expansion space. Villages change towards industrialization, urbanization, modernization. Followed by cultural change, new factors appear intermingled...