This paper was conducted to describe some of the circumstances that increases the risk factors fornon-communicable diseases amongst the previously disadvantaged South African population. The work presented here is based on an action research in an urban black township of Cape Town. The goal was to develop a NonCommunicable Disease model, which can be used to benefit an urban township commun...

Abstract There has been a global attempt to evaluate and regenerate cities, residential areas, building toward more biophilic (‘connect with nature’) design, as an effort in promoting development based on environmental sustainability. The objective of the study was search proper parameters be applied for township, provide some necessary suggestions proposed parameters. Sentul City township sele...

Since the Central Rural Work Conference in 2017 first proposed to take road of socialist rural revitalization with Chinese characteristics, all townships have been actively exploring that conforms local characteristics. Right now, since February 2018, “Park City” has promoted, and a series measures implemented, which are great significance sustainable development urban areas. It is strategic ex...

This study proposes to develop methodologies for public water supply quality control by implementing evaluation and control mechanisms and enhancing environmental health surveillance decision-making. These objectives were based on data for waterborne diseases recorded at the Rio de Janeiro State Health Department. We selected the following neighborhoods: Posse (1st Township) and Caioaba (5th To...

A project is underway to map die indoor radon potential for New York State at the township level. Through a detector distribution program the New York State Department of Health has a database of over 36,000 basement screening measurements. The address field for the indoor measurement data is being linked to latitude and longitude coordinates using data files containing coordinate information. ...

Internet application in China has maintained a constant development tendency in the past decade. China is now one of the most populous countries in terms of internet user population. While offering enormous opportunities, the dramatic digitalization also brings about a series of challenges that demand urgent attention. Digital divide is one of the challenges that affect China as well as other c...