This study assessed the relationship between mental health status and willingness to seek treatment in an urban Muslim community. A convenience sampling procedure was used to recruit participants for the study at local mosques. A sample of 100 Muslims participated by completing …
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Many of the recent armed conflicts have taken place in cities of the Developing World. In the resulting emergency situations, water supply and sanitation are among the most essential services to restore. They form part of the urban services available to the city dwellers that ar…
Background The Northern Territory has the highest rates of kidney disease in Australia with Aboriginal people from remote areas suffering the heaviest burden. Despite this, dialysis services are largely centralised in urban areas requiring many people to relocate for treatment. …
Marine ports are the largest single business complex in the maritime sector impacting the coastal, marine, and atmospheric environment. The environmental effects of port operations mostly originate from the vessel and cargo handling operations, and maintenance. Port operations g…
The main purpose of this dissertation was to determine whether income, education, gender, family size, and constraints like high cost of building materials, high house rents, etc. are the factors that contribute to the Enugu residents decision to dwell in slums of Agangwu, Ngele…
Modeling and developing different evacuation scenarios gained significant interest in recent years, where the management of the transportation system in support of evacuation efforts proved to be critical in mitigating the impacts of regional emergency events. However, most of t…
Urban agriculture is becoming increasingly important in developed and developing countries that are experiencing serious environmental and social problems. As a developing country, Turkey has faced some environmental, social and economic issues in urban areas with typically irre…
The impacts of misguided urban planning can be damaging to the involved population's welfare and, in consequence, destructive to the economy of a country. More proficient urban planning approach, which meets population's needs and incorporates the sustainable rapid mass transit …
Nigeria, like most developing countries of the world, is faced with the problem of inequality of physician-trained health care personnel between the rural and urban areas. Physicians and all cadres of paramedical staff are in short supply and concentrate their services in the ur…
There is a dearth of research on health care demand in developing countries, and even less that focuses on the poor, especially the urban poor. This study uses panel data from the Urban Livelihoods Study (ULS) to estimate the probability of seeking care and mean expenditures for…
İzmir is a city that has attracted immigrants throughout the history, and Basmane in particular, has functioned as a transition hub in İzmir Basmane is a multicultural, multilingual and multiethnic district in İzmir People from different cultures and ethnicities live in this dis…
Urban vitality represents active street life in cities. Pedestrian density and diversity of the streets, which are the most important public spaces for cities, and also variety of pedestrian activity on the streets are the urban vitality indicators. Urban vitality enhances socia…