With the large-scale development of urbanization in world, phenomena such as unbalanced allocation various elements rural regional system, well decline economic and social structure functions process urban transformation China, have endangered healthy areas. The “hollowing” areas is becoming more intense, governance hollow villages has become a key link to stimulating vitality realizing coordin...

The cities are facing illegal dumping of municipal solid waste (MSW) because the waste collection facilities do not cover the entire population. Furthermore, this sector is poorly developed in small towns or villages annexed to administrative territory units (ATU) of cities , MSW are disposed in open dumps polluting the local environment. This paper analyzes on the one hand the urban disparitie...

In many low-income countries, girls marry early and have children very soon after marriage. Although conveying infant and young child nutrition (IYCN) knowledge to adolescent girls in time is important to ensure the well-being of their children, little is known about the best ways to convey these messages. This study examines the extent of, and sources from which adolescent girls derive IYCN kn...

Most migration literature focuses on large scale movements of people across country borders, while the internal migration trends of countries are commonly neglected, despite the fact that the understanding of internal migration trends is crucial for planning the future for a country. In Iraq a major reason for migration has been security a direct result of its turbulent history since the 1980’s...

The present study evaluates the blood pressure profile among the Buddhist Lepchas, a tribal population, indigenous to the Sikkim Himalaya, in relation to selected biological, behavioral and sociocultural factors. The study subjects (aged 16 years and older) have been chosen from urban (Gangtok town, the capital of the State of Sikkim) and rural (Dzongu villages, about 75 km north of Gangtok) ar...

Due to multiple-factors, bracketed popularly in ‘push-pull’ category, migration, both internal and external, is taking place in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, the dominant form of migration is from rural to urban centers. For, Bangladesh is predominantly an agrian rural society for 80.0 percent of the total population lives in 87319 villages. The urban centers of Bangladesh are developing rapidly a...

Cardiovascular disease is progressively becoming a major cause of morbidity and mortality in India generally in young adults.The objective of the present was to study the prevalence of CHD among adult population of Lucknow District. For this a community based cross sectional study was done on 4 randomly selected villages and 8 randomly selected urban areas .1047 (385 Rural and 662 Urban)subject...

visceral leishmaniasis is a parasitic infectious disease from dogs and canids to human that is caused by protozoans of the genus leishmania. information on the prevalence of canine leishmaniasis is necessary to define control measures for zoonotic leishmaniasis. this seroepidemiological survey was performed in dogs from ahvaz district using by dat and elisa. blood was randomly collected in 38 p...

among the agents collection that should observe in instability of rural residences is attention urban dropped sewages ،because of more excecuted works in industvies and home consumption of cities are dealing with water . there fore ،more using of water results in more production of sewage and these sewages have safe place in human consumption cycle. these processes hurt direct evacuation of sew...

We investigate the impacts of rural-to-urban migration on the health of young adult migrants. A key methodological challenge involves the potentially confounding effects of selection on the relationship between migration and health. Our study addresses this challenge in two ways. To control for potential effects of prior health status on post-migration health outcomes, we employ a longitudinal ...