BACKGROUND Characterizing geographic access depends on a broad range of methods available to researchers and the healthcare context to which the method is applied. Globally, travel time is one frequently used measure of geographic access with known limitations associated with data availability. Specifically, due to lack of available utilization data, many travel time studies assume that patient...

patients and methods data were collected from the recorded data of patients with leishmaniasis referred to isfahan province health care center, isfahan, iran. the patients were diagnosed by direct microscopic examination of the samples in leishmaniasis and skin diseases research center and other health care centers. data concerning demographic features, the number and location of lesions, durat...

Affordances from the urban space shape the way we interact with our environment, whether manifested as driving into the city centre for work or playing sports in designated arenas. Given today’s abundance of crowd-generated digital traces on location-based social network (LBSN) platforms, an opportunity arises to grasp deeper semantic characterization of urban affordances beyond static represen...

in this paper, by using the survival models, survival functions for the time from birth to the event of using formula (i.e. the time that baby in fed by breast milk) in urban and rural areas of takestan (iran, winter 1998) are reported. later the relation between the mentioned time and some factors are also discussed. the kaplan-meire method and cox regression are used in this paper as well. 48...

this study examined distrbution of household income in khorasan razavi province and the country for urban and rural areas, seprately. using household income and expenditure statistics compiled by the statistical center of iran during 2007-2012 the gini index, tile index, atkinson index and the tenth docile to the first docile were applied.the study findings indicate that during the studied peri...

This study analyzes various methods of providing transit services in low-density areas. These areas can be classified into two major categories. First, suburban areas of medium and large cities; and second, entire medium and small cities which have low population densities. One of these types of areas is found in most cities. The focus of this study is the type of transit network and operation ...

Over the past half-century, the progress of travel behavior research and travel demand forecasting has been spear headed and continuously propelled by the micro-economic theories, specifically utility maximization. There is no denial that the travel demand models today are sophisticated and in most cases capable of forecasting the main stream of travel behavior in urban areas. However, a quick ...