BACKGROUND Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease that affects between 50 and 100 million people each year. Increasing our understanding of the heterogeneous transmission patterns of dengue at different spatial scales could have considerable public health value by guiding intervention strategies. METHODS Based on the weekly number of dengue cases in Perú by province, we investigated the ass...

OBJECTIVE To contribute evidence relevant to the policy of supplying iodised salt (IS), non-iodised salt (NIS) or both in Chinese cities. DESIGN Subnational telephone interview survey. SETTING China. PARTICIPANTS Totally, 24 557 telephone numbers were dialled and 4833 citizens accepted the telephone interview. The telephone numbers were randomly selected by random digit dialling and a Mit...

The relation between the household electrical consumption Y and population N for Chinese cities in 2006 has been investigated with the power law scaling form Y = A0N β . It is found that the Chinese cities should be divided into three categories characterized by different scaling exponent β. The first category, which includes the biggest and coastal cities of China, has the scaling exponent β >...

With support of GIS tools and Theil index, the spatial variance of urban energy consumption in China was discussed in this paper through the parallel comparison and quantitative analysis of the 30 provincial capital cities of mainland China in 2005, in terms of scale, efficiency and structure. The indicators associated with urban energy consumption show large spatial variance across regions, po...

OBJECTIVES To describe demographic and practice characteristics of male and female midwives in private practice (MIPPs) in 10 cities of Peru, and their role in the delivery of reproductive health care, specifically management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). METHODS As part of an intervention trial in 10 cities in the provinces of Peru designed to improve STI management, detailed in...

The Chinese government started an important project “Geographical conditions monitoring (GCM)” in 2012, which aims at fully revealing the spatial pattern of natural resources, and economic and social development. Urban development assessment and analysis are an important topic of the comprehensive statistics in GCM project. This study quantitatively evaluates the sustainable development level o...

In many places around the globe, groundwater has been threatened by various pressures, which calls for better management strategies sustainability. this study, we suggest a novel framework identifying factors critical to coastal based on results from City Blueprint (CB) assessments. By compiling 5856 indicator of Approach (CBA) 122 cities and analyzing correlation between these indicators, cons...

Abstract Coastal cities are prone to tidal floods because coastal centers of economic activities, trades and services; in addition, there residential housing centers. In general, this kind natural disaster has flooded the lower area, which greatly negative impacts on health, lifestyle socioeconomic life affected population cities. following decades, will damage more than a hundred major worldwi...