Although many facets of the migration phenomena in sub-Saharan Africa have been studied extensively, there is a paucity of research on residential mobility behavior of migrants. This exploratory study examines the residential mobility in Accra, Ghana, using a retrospective survey of randomly selected migrant households. To examine the direction of moves, Accra was delineated into three major zo...

Transit-oriented development is shown to produce an appreciable ridership bonus in California. This is partly due to residential self-selectionöthat is, a lifestyle preference for transitoriented livingöas well as factors like employer-based policies that reduce free parking and automobile subsidies. Half-mile catchments of station areas appear to be indifference zones in the sense that residen...

BACKGROUND The mobility of older individuals has often been only partially assessed, without considering all important aspects such as potential (available) versus effective (used) mobilities and the physical and psychosocial factors that modulate them. This study proposes a new model for evaluating mobility that considers all important aspects, applied here to lower-limb amputees with vascular...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the preferences of frail older people for individualised multidisciplinary rehabilitation to promote recovery from a hip fracture. DESIGN Discrete Choice Experiment. SETTING Acute and Rehabilitation Hospitals in Adelaide, South Australia. SUBJECTS Eighty-seven patients with recent hip fracture (16 living in residential care facilities prior to fracture). METHODS...

BACKGROUND This paper introduces a new approach for evaluating clustering in case-control data that accounts for residential histories. Although many statistics have been proposed for assessing local, focused and global clustering in health outcomes, few, if any, exist for evaluating clusters when individuals are mobile. METHODS Local, global and focused tests for residential histories are de...

10 The residential landscape constitutes a significant portion of the urban environment. With the increasing mobility of our society, many people come to reside in environments with unfamiliar plant communities and environmental conditions. In this research, 232 Phoenix, Arizona homeowners were surveyed to investigate their residential landscape preferences and to what degree these preferences ...

We examine the housing market, residential mobility, and academic performance changes that occur soon after a school fails to achieve Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) (for the second time) in the Charlotte, NC school district. Charlotte is a school district with substantial opportunities for school choice and a number of oversubscribed, high quality schools. To comply with the 2002 No Child Left ...