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Urban violence as a predictor factor of obesity: longitudinal evidence from Sao Paulo, Brazil [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Violence and obesity are global public health challenges that impose significant health burdens. However, the prospective association between urban violence and obesity remains insufficiently understood, especially in low- and middle-income ...
Bianca Mitie Onita +5 more
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Addictive Behaviors Reports, 2018 Objective: To investigate the association of alcohol and cocaine use with urban violence (both as victim and as perpetrator) in a representative sample of the Brazilian population.
Renata Rigacci Abdalla +5 more
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Preventive Medicine Reports, 2023 The purpose of this study was to examine psychosocial, experiential, and demographic correlates of firearm ownership, carrying, and storage methods.
Daniel C. Semenza +3 more
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Urban Science, 2022 Urban gun violence is a critical human health and social justice issue. Strategies to reduce urban gun violence are increasingly being taken out of the domain of police and into community-based programs.
Jason Corburn +2 more
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Urban Resources and Their Linkage to Political Agendas for Armed Groups in Cities
Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021 Rapid urbanisation in countries undergoing or recovering from armed conflict has imposed severe strain on public services and governance. It has also been accompanied by increasing policy and academic concern about the vulnerability of cities to armed ...
Antônio Sampaio
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Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021 Is the Philippine War on Drugs a ‘War on the Poor’? Focusing on beneficiaries of the Philippine Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) or Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program as the most legible cohort of poor, we examine the effects of the anti-narcotics ...
Maria Karla Abigail Pangilinan +3 more
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City, Nation, Network: Shifting Territorialities of Sovereignty and Urban Violence in Latin America
Urban Planning, 2020 Cities across the global south are seeing unprecedented levels of violence that generate intense risks and vulnerability. Such problems are often experienced most viscerally among poorer residents, thus reinforcing longstanding socio-spatial conditions ...
Diane Davis
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Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2015 VPUU has a wealth of experience to share and is engaged with broader national and international policymakers and implementing agencies. Researchers are grappling with the difficulty of providing a rigorous project evaluation for these collaborations ...
Tali Cassidy +3 more
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Scale and forms of domestic violence against schoolchildren in rural, rural-urban and urban areas
Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2019 Introduction In 2017, the third cyclical study on the scale of domestic violence against schoolchildren and youth in one of the rural communes of the Western Pomerania (Poland) was carried out.
Albert Terelak +2 more
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Comparative Analysis of the Relationship between Poverty and Urban Violence Using the Vikor Model (Case Study: Yazd Neighborhoods) [PDF]
جغرافیای اجتماعی شهری, 2017 The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between poverty and the spread of various types of urban violence in the neighborhoods of the city of Yazd. According to the objectives of the research, it is a practical research and its method is
Jamal Mohamadi, Ali Bagheri Kashkooli
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