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Regenerating informal habitat in marginal areas through a people-oriented approach
Techne, 2022 This study, carried out by a multidisciplinary research team, deals with the participatory regeneration process of a marginal residential area in the city of Rome.
Alessandra Battisti +2 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.Introduction Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases(RMDs) are leading causes of physical disability, necessitating support with activities of daily living(ADLs). This study describes social care received by patients with RMDs in two disperate regions of England: Salford(urban) and Norfolk(rural).
Mehreen Somro +6 more
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Gender-based Violence in an Indian Resettlement Colony Threatened with Re-eviction
Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil VidyapeethIntroduction: Od tribals who migrated to India during the Indo-Pakistan partition of 1947 were resettled by the Government of India in 1987 in the Bhatti Mines area near Delhi, India.
Sheetal Surjeet +6 more
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Global Health Action, 2011 This article is a review of the PhD thesis undertaken by Joanna Vearey that explores local government responses to the urban health challenges of migration, informal settlements, and HIV in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Joanna Vearey
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Urban Science, 2022 The pandemic’s lockdown has made physical inactivity unavoidable, forcing many people to work from home and increasing the sedentary nature of their lifestyle.
Alexander Hohl, Aynaz Lotfata
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Urban Health Multidisciplinary Actions Promoting Health in an Urban Environment [PDF]
, 2020 The crisis faced by the Western lifestyle model when dealing with problems associated with climate change and the new roles that cities and buildings must play in a world of globalisation fosters the rise of a new approach that marks a necessary turning point for our civilisation.
Battisti A., Marceca M.
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The study presents biodegradable and recyclable mixed‐matrix membranes (MMMs), hydrogels, and cryogels using luminescent nanoscale metal‐organic frameworks (nMOFs) and biopolymers. These bio‐nMOF‐MMMs combine europium‐based nMOFs as probes for the status of the materials with the biopolymers agar and gelatine and present alternatives to conventional ...
Moritz Maxeiner +4 more
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Health Implications of Diverse Visions of Urban Spaces: Bridging the Formal-Informal Divide
Frontiers in Public Health, 2019 In the past 200 years, urban spaces have been imagined as neatly laid out, well-planned, sanitised and civilised places of dense human habitation with regulated economic activity, where political power, financial capital, the frontiers of knowledge and ...
Ritu Priya +4 more
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Oral Rehydration Salts, Cholera, and the Unfinished Urban Health Agenda
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 Cholera has played an outsized role in the history of how cities have transformed from the victims of disease into great disease conquerors. Yet the current burden of cholera and diarrheal diseases in the fast-urbanizing areas of low-income nations shows
Thomas J. Bollyky
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A food‐grade cooling composite made from starch and recycled eggshell powder offers a scalable, ultra‐low‐cost solution for passive daytime radiative cooling. Easily prepared using basic kitchen tools, this material empowers communities, even in areas with limited infrastructure, to stay cooler during worsening summer heat waves.
Qimeng Song +3 more
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