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Zoning and spatial analysis of poverty in urban areas (Case Study: Sabzevar City-Iran)

open access: yesJournal of Urban Management, 2019
The present descriptive-analytical study employs a survey research method, documentary technique, and applied-developmental research design to zone the 18 neighborhoods of Sabzevar City in terms of urban poverty indicators.
Rahman zandi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamics of Poverty in Iran: Application of Panel Data in Urban and Rural Areas [PDF]

open access: yesفصلنامه پژوهش‌های اقتصادی ایران, 2007
Anti poverty program in Iran has started in 2001 to mitigate poverty. This paper addresses issues related to the dynamics of poverty using household panel data for urban and rural areas of Iran covering the period 2001-2003.
Mansor Zibaei, Ashan Shooshtarian
doaj  

Réduire les vulnérabilités plutôt qu'éradiquer la pauvreté

open access: yesEspace populations sociétés, 2009
Poverty definition has been evolving with developing policies. First to be poor was principally meaning to be out of an easy access to essential resources.
Dominique Couret, Pascale Metzger, URBI
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying Urban Poverty Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning Approaches: Implications for Housing Inequality

open access: yesLand, 2021
Enriching Asian perspectives on the rapid identification of urban poverty and its implications for housing inequality, this paper contributes empirical evidence about the utility of image features derived from high-resolution satellite imagery and ...
Guie Li   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Survey of Poverty Status in the Rural and Urban Areas in Fars Province [PDF]

open access: yesFaslnāmah-i Pizhūhish/Nāmah-i Iqtisādī, 2009
Fars province, with the population almost equal to the 6.5 percent of the total country population and noticeable geographic-wide and remarkable facilities and suitable economic-social capabilities, always has been encounter to defects and shortages ...
Khosrow Piraee, Mohammad Reza Shahsavar
doaj  

Chronic Poverty in Urban Areas [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironment and Urbanization, 2005
FOR MANY YEARS, poverty in urban areas of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean has been identified by spatial area (e.g. settlement, neighbourhood, inner city) as often as it has been referred to by social group (e.g. low-income women, the homeless).
openaire   +1 more source

Assessing Cognitive Functioning in Children With Brain Tumors: Interaction of Neighborhood Social Determinants of Health and Neurological Risk

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background This study investigated how neighborhood‐level social determinants of health (SDOH), including redlining and neurological risk, interact to influence cognitive outcomes in children treated for brain tumors (CTBT). Methods A retrospective chart review of 161 CTBT aged 5–17 was conducted.
Alannah R. Srsich   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Study on the status of poverty in urban areas of Kerman province in comparison with the whole country [PDF]

open access: yesFaslnāmah-i Pizhūhish/Nāmah-i Iqtisādī, 2014
The first step to fight against poverty and inequalities reduction in line with development policy, is correct understanding and awareness of poverty situation. Due to this thread, this paper studies the relative poverty in urban areas of Kerman province
Pooneh Eftekharian, Mostafa Salimifar
doaj  

Re‐Awakening Public Attention to the Silent Pandemic of Cancer Among Older Adults in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

open access: yesAging and Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As global populations age, cancer is increasingly becoming a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among older adults, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). Despite accounting for the majority of new cancer cases and deaths, older individuals remain underrepresented in cancer research, clinical guidelines, and health ...
Ibrahim Bidemi Abdullateef   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Three Poverties in Urban China

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, 2006
AbstractRadical economic reform and rapid marketization in the late 1990s could be expected to create new poverty and insecurity in Chinese cities. Accordingly, the extent and nature of poverty in urban China is examined by means of a 1999 cross‐section household survey.
Knight, J, Shi, L
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