China has seen the largest human migration in history, and the country's rapid urbanisation has important consequences for public health. A provincial analysis of its urbanisation trends shows shifting and accelerating rural-to-urban migration across the country and accompanying rapid increases in city size and population. The growing disease burden in urban areas attributable to nutrition and ...

Two Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites now include urban areas (Baltimore, Maryland and Phoenix, Arizona). A goal of LTER in these cities is to blend physical and social science investigations to better understand urban ecological change. Research monitoring programs are underway to investigate the effects of urbanization on ecosystems. Climate changes in these urban areas reflect the e...

Urbanization is one of the most important demographic shifts worldwide during the past century and represents a substantial change from how most of the world's population has lived for the past several thousand years. The study of urban health considers how characteristics of the urban environment may affect population health. This paper reviews the empirical research assessing urban living's i...

1. Urban Development 1.1. Increase of Urban Population 1.2. Size of Cities 1.3. Growth of Slums 2. Health Implications of Urban Growth 2.1. urban Characteristics of Health 2.1.1. Urban Health Hazards 2.1.2. The Health Transition 2.2. Specific Health Situations in Slum Areas 3. Future Challenges 3.1. Sustainability of Urban Systems 3.2. Aging of Urban Populations Glossary Bibliography Biographic...

TT is not easy to allocate India's national income between the urban and rural sectors nor the change in their respective magnitudes over the ten year period. Fortunately, the two terminal points of our period coincide wi th the decennial Census and it is possible to make a somewhat rough estimate of the relevant magnitudes. There are however differences in definit ion of the urban area between...

BECAUSE THE YEAR 2000 figures prominently in urban population projections , it is timely to assess whether the United Nations' earliest projections of urban population growth in developing countries, made in the 1970s, have been reasonably accurate, and if not, why. Despite being accompanied by advice to interpret urban population projections with caution and not as forecasts (United Nations 19...

Reflectance characteristics of human settlements influence energy fluxes in the physical environment as well as our ability to monitor urban growth with satellite-based sensors. Spectral heterogeneity at the scales of 10 to 30 meters complicate the traditional land cover classifications derived from moderate resolution satellite imagery in urban and suburban areas. In this study we consider pop...

The development of urban housing policies needs to be correlated with the demographic city. Demographic dynamics in world, including Kyrgyzstan, is developing towards urbanization population and increase agglomerations. Therefore, this article, we study degree interdependence growth factors stock volume commissioning a new dwelling. In particular, two largest cities Kyrgyz Republic were studied...

This article contributes to the nascent literature on the health of urban Aboriginal people by comparing the health status and determinants of health of the urban Aboriginal and urban non-Aboriginal population in Canada. Data for the research were taken from the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) and the 2000–2001 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) Cycle 1.1. Framed within a population h...

BACKGROUND This study examined the quality of life (QOL), measured by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) questionnaire, among urban (n = 277) and non-urban (n = 323) breast cancer survivors and women from the general population (n = 1140) in Queensland, Australia. METHODS Population-based samples of breast cancer survivors aged < 75 years who were 12 months post-diagnosis and ...