Housing developments in Lagos State peri-urban settlements have contributed immensely to the alleviation of the challenges of housing deficits in central Lagos. This research aims at examining the characteristics of housing development in the peri-urban settlements of Lagos State, Nigeria. Using a case study approach, housing developments in peri-urban settlements in Ibeju-Lekki Local Governmen...

Energy issues and energy poverty became very important when dealing with global development challenges sustainable agenda, as the years pass more precise indicators are formed to follow this phenomenon from various perspectives. One way analyze is through proposed by European Commission Survey on Income Living Conditions (EU-SILC). Based main EU-SILC for Serbia 2020, analysis explored a relatio...

The hypothesis of this study is twofold and states that parental socioeconomic status has an effect on the soft drink consumption of the child, and that this effect is mediated by the soft drink related parenting practices. One thousand six hundred and thirty-nine parents of 2.5-7 year old children from 34 Flemish pre-primary and primary schools, completed a self-administered questionnaire on s...

Neighbourhood-level socioeconomic composition and built context are correlates of weight-related behaviours. We investigated the relations between objective measures of neighbourhood design and socioeconomic status (SES) and their interaction, in relation to self-reported waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio, and body mass index (BMI) in a sample of Canadian adults (n = 851 from 12 Calg...

This study aimed to evaluate the epidemiological status of Tuberculosis regarding to the socioeconomic characteristics of São José do Rio Preto between 1998 and 2004. Indexes estimated for 432 urban census tracts from the demographic census of 2000, sorted systematically according to the values of socioeconomic factors and grouped into quartiles were taken into account. The socioeconomic charac...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the strength of the associations between neighbourhood characteristics and mortality, after adjusting for individual characteristics. DESIGN AND SETTING 1990 census records of over 25 year old men in the Helsinki Metropolitan area linked to death records in 1991-1995; almost 1.22 million person years and 15 000 deaths. Individual characteristics were education, occup...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relative importance of socioeconomic and maternal/prenatal determinants of the nutritional situation of children < 6 years old in an urban African area after several years of economic crisis. DESIGN Cross-sectional cluster sample survey. SETTING Brazzaville, capital city of the Congo. SUBJECTS Information on socioeconomic characteristics was gathered from a random ...