While energy infrastructure can contribute to economic development goals, they differ in potential to contribute to local livelihoods. In discussion of distributed energy scenarios and trade-offs it is important to consider the importance of rural energy access especially in a state where the total rural population is so significant. Scale and localized needs are important considerations in ene...

Abstract The change in geographical distribution of Dengue Fever and the introduction of new vector species in some areas are increasing the concerns of epidemiologist. It is believed that second hand tire trade and its transportation has been a factor in dengue spread as it is a mobile egg reservoir. Understanding the underlying dynamics of eggs transportation due to tire trade can help preven...

Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use: The Case of Transportation Policies We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steadystate equilibrium. We then consider three different policies: a transportation policy that improves the public transport system in the city, an ...

Recently, two quantitative tools have emerged for predicting the health impacts of projects that change population physical activity: the Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) and Dynamic Modeling for Health Impact Assessment (DYNAMO-HIA). HEAT has been used to support health impact assessments of transportation infrastructure projects, but DYNAMO-HIA has not been previously employed for this ...

Given that public transportation networks are often worse in rural areas than in urban areas, rural residents who do not drive can find it difficult to access health-promoting goods, services, and resources related to masticatory ability. Moreover, geographical location, assessed by elevation, could modify this association. The aim of this study was to test whether the association between acces...

The author studies trends in commuting to the city of Zagreb in Croatia, Yugoslavia. Commuter surveys and bivariate analysis are used to describe the socioeconomic level, occupational status, transportation method, and place of residence of rural and urban residents who commute to the city. (SUMMARY IN ENG AND RUS)

Determinant factors of dengue global epidemiology trends include, but are not limited to: 1) demographic changes including population growth, economical trends in tropical countries and land use patterns; 2) increased urban population size and density due to rural to urban migration 3) modern transportation with increased movement of people, commodities, animals, vectors and pathogens; and 4) c...

Rural populations face unique challenges to physical activity that are largely driven by environmental conditions. However, research on rural built environments and physical activity is limited by a paucity of rural-specific environmental assessment tools. The aim of this paper is to describe the development and testing of a rural assessment tool: Inventories for Community Health Assessment in ...

Dengue fever (DF) and dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) are important mosquito-borne viral diseases of humans and recognised as important emerging infectious diseases in the tropics and subtropics. There has been a considerable increase in the geographic spread, number of cases and severity of the disease in the past four decades, since there is a drastic change in the environment due to rapid ur...