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Rethinking urban planning and health [PDF]

, 2015
The research starts from the observation that the disciplines of urban planning and public health are disconnected, partly due to an ongoing institutionalization of health criteria in formal laws and regulations.
Verbeek, Thomas
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Urban Health Challenges in Europe [PDF]

Journal of Urban Health, 2012
This article synthesizes diverse official reports, statistics, and scientific papers that present demographic, economic, environmental, and social trends impacting on the health and quality of life of citizens living in European cities. A literature review led to the identification of some key challenges including an aging society, migration flows ...
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Urban Public Health: Is There a Pyramid? [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2013
Early ecologists identified a pyramidal trophic structure in terms of number, biomass and energy transfer. In 1943, the psychologist Maslow put forward a pyramid model to describe layers of human needs. It is indicated that the pyramid principle is universally applicable in natural, humanistic and social disciplines.
Bin Chen, Yanpeng Cai, Meirong Su, Jiao Wang, Zhifeng Yang   +4 more
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High‐Performance Low‐Emissivity Paints Enabled by N‐Doped Poly(benzodifurandione) (n‐PBDF) for Energy‐Efficient Buildings

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study introduces a scalable and colored low‐emissivity (low‐e) paint achieved by spraying an ultrathin n‐doped poly(benzodifurandione) (n‐PBDF) coating onto various colored substrates. The low‐e paint enhances thermal regulation by reducing mid‐infrared thermal emissivity to 0.19, thereby stabilizing indoor temperatures across diverse climates ...
Xiaojie Liu, Won‐June Lee, Daniel William Carne, Yanpei Tian, Andrea Felicelli, Yue Lei, Joseph A. Romo, Liyan You, Zixin Xiong, Orlando Gabriel Rivera Gonzalez, Abdulrahman Aljwirah, Qiaoqiang Gan, Jianguo Mei, Xiulin Ruan   +13 more
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Total Demand, Use and Unmet Need for Modern Contraceptives Among Women Living in Informal Settlements in Kira Municipality, Wakiso District, Uganda. Implications for Urban Health

Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2021
Background: Update and utilization of modern contraceptives has public health benefits including reduction of unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortions, and related maternal mortality.
Moses Tetui, Moses Tetui, Moses Tetui, Mazen Baroudi, Tonny Ssekamatte, Catherine Birabwa, Simon Peter Kibira, Lynn Atuyambe, Alexandre Delamou, Alexandre Delamou, Fredrick Edward Makumbi   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pedestrian Wind Factor Estimation in Complex Urban Environments [PDF]

Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML), 2021, 2021
Urban planners and policy makers face the challenge of creating livable and enjoyable cities for larger populations in much denser urban conditions. While the urban microclimate holds a key role in defining the quality of urban spaces today and in the future, the integration of wind microclimate assessment in early urban design and planning processes ...
arxiv  

Urbanization and health in Africa : exploring the interconnections between poverty, inequality and the burden of disease [PDF]

, 2005
There are few changes in the history of human existence comparable to urbanization in scope and potential to bring about biologic change. The transition in the developed world from an agricultural to an industrial-urban society has already produced ...
Songsore, Jacob
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Biodegradable and Recyclable Luminescent Mixed‐Matrix‐Membranes, Hydrogels, and Cryogels based on Nanoscale Metal‐Organic Frameworks and Biopolymers

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, Julian Burkhart, Kateryna Borysova, Chiara Mazzariol, Klaus Müller‐Buschbaum   +4 more
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Graph Attention Networks Unveil Determinants of Intra- and Inter-city Health Disparity [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
Understanding the determinants underlying variations in urban health status is important for informing urban design and planning, as well as public health policies. Multiple heterogeneous urban features could modulate the prevalence of diseases across different neighborhoods in cities and across different cities.
arxiv  

Urbanization and human health

Parasitology, 1993
SUMMARYUrbanization involves a physical change in which increasing proportions of populations live in urban settings, however defined. It also implies considerable changes in the ways in which these people live, how they earn their livelihoods, the food which they eat, and the wide range of environmental factors to which they are exposed.
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