STUDY OBJECTIVE Despite significant declines since the late 1960s, coronary mortality remains the leading cause of death for African Americans. African Americans in the US South suffer higher rates of cardiovascular disease than African Americans in other regions; yet the mortality experiences of rural-dwelling African Americans, most of whom live in the South, have not been described in detail...

ndustrial restructuring is the ongoing process of reallocating workers among jobs in the economy as industries expand and contract. The New York metropolitan area economy underwent a significant amount of restructuring during the first half of the 1990s as a variety of factors—including new products, increased competition from other areas, and deregulation and fiscal problems—caused area firms ...

Brazil’s inequalities in welfare and poverty between and within regions can be accounted by differences in household attributes and returns to those attributes. Using Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions at the mean as well as at different quantiles of welfare distributions on regionally representative household survey data (2002-03 POF), this paper finds that household attributes account for most of ...

In this paper, we examine cross-regional spillover effects in the Korean housing market, using the predictive directional spillover index and the connectedness measurement. The basic finding is that Seoul has been the most influential market in Korea among various combinations of regional housing markets. We also presented evidence that other metropolitan cities affect only neighboring regions....

OBJECTIVE To account for variations in death rates in population subgroups of the USA. METHODS Factors associated with age-adjusted death rates in 366 metropolitan and non- metropolitan areas of the United States were examined for 1990-92. The rates ranged from 690 to 1108 per 100 000 population (mean = 885 +/- 78 per 100 000). FINDINGS Least squares regression analysis explained 71% of thi...

Purpose. The RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis continues to monitor the spread of Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) into rural U.S. counties to determine whether this model appeals to rural providers and health systems. The RUPRI Center’s periodic reports reveal trends in rural ACO activity; this brief follows one released in July 2013, with data through December 2015. ...

The rapid development of urban areas in surrounding regions has led to an increasing number commuters within and between core-peripheral regions. However, variation jobs economic levels exacerbated the socio-economic inequalities metropolitan residents. Using commuter data Jakarta Metropolitan Area, this study examines disparities commuting behaviour, spatial patterns, health with incomes lower...

Perhaps the most rapidly growing element of the American religious landscape is the megachurch, commonly taken to mean religious establishments with 2,000 or more attendees. Typically Protestant in affiliation, although many are non-denominational, megachurches have grown explosively in the US. This paper situates megachurches within the broader context of religion in the US, and the literature...

abstract urban expansion, pollution augmentation, and extention of major industrial activities in metropolitan areas impacted local climates of major cities. transforming big cities into heat islands is one of the most prominent results of such a micro-climate change. in this study, variation of precipitation, temperature and some other important climatic parameters including relative humidity,...

Aedes albopictus is a tropical invasive species which in the last decades spread worldwide, also colonizing temperate regions of Europe and US, where it has become a public health concern due to its ability to transmit exotic arboviruses, as well as severe nuisance problems due to its aggressive daytime outdoor biting behaviour. While several studies have been carried out in order to predict th...