Urban studies and planning

The Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) is a real-life healthcare system that protects to extend health insurance coverage to about 30-34 million people (Anderson, 2014). Studies in 2012 have found that every state needs more physicians, and primary health care such as, dental, mental, allied health, pharmacy and more has shortages with physicians and specialists. Hence, combined pressures have contributed to labor force problems before the ACA’s enactment. The ACA will authorize more tensions on…

The Marketization of Care for Older People Introduction This chapter aims to illustrate the theoretical framework of ‘mixed economy of care’ and ‘marketization of care’ as well as to explore the distinct model of care for older people in urban China. In the first section, it applies the approach corresponds to the ‘mixed economy of care’ (Knapp et al., 2001, Lewis, 1995, Glendinning, 2012, Powell, 2007) and ‘care diamond’ (Ochiai, 2009, Razavi, 2007) in the field of ‘social care’ (Daly and…

Emission of Particulate Matter (PM10, PM2.5, and PM0.1) comprises a considerable fraction of urban air pollution (Laden et al. 2006, Shackleton et al, 2013). Long term exposure of airborne particulates matter is directly associated with post neonatal infant mortality (Laden et al. 2006), Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) (Tracey et al. 2006) and various disease conditions such as; cardiopulmonary, lung cancer (Pope III, 2002), atherosclerosis (Araujo, 2011) and asthma (Anderson et al., 2013).…

Author and blogger, Tim Urban in his 2016 TED talk, “Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator”, argues that everyone is a procrastinator. Urban’s purpose is to explain in order to prove his final point that everyone is a procrastinator to some degree. Urban explains to the general public everyone is a procrastinator. He is surely right about this; that everyone, to some degree, procrastinates because, as he may not be aware, recent studies have shown that 20% of the United States population…

Brazil, being the fifth-largest country in the world, has a population of approximately 200 million people which has increasingly become urbanised since the 1950s, with 85% of the current population living in urban areas. However, like many other countries, in the course of this urban development and economic growth, may have neglected measures of sustainability for the present and future. The current national focus and priority of the country is on economic stabilization policies even though…

of climate change in Toronto, it is no doubt that there is still a lot to be concerned about. Specifically, from several studies, it shows that urban structure, increase in urban population, highways and heavy-duty vehicles are all key variables that could pose the negative impact on our urban air quality and our health. However, we can mitigate these problems by changes of urban development structure, regulations about population growth, restrictions of new constructions near highways, and…

Numerous studies have investigated the perpetuation of sex bias reflected on the sexist language use, and how people perceive and judge gender-based language. Murdock and Forsyth (1985) conducted two studies to examine people’s responses to gender-biased language empirically. Participants in both studies were from evening classes at a large urban university, which not only included a large proportion of full-time students, but also included students with other occupations such as “secretaries,…

network, both internal and external was a substantial feature of the urban economy of the Harappa. Trade was going larger and the economic grew very well. To encourage trade and good communities, they had to build more roads and canals. For internal trade, the people of Harappa who live in the city had to depend on the surrounding countryside for the supply of foods and many other necessary products, so they had to emerge a rural-urban interrelationship. Comparably, the farmers also need to find…

In urban school districts it is important to establish primary goals and make sure all teacher are well rounded when it come to the evaluation process. This will aide them in becoming better prepared with multicultural awareness, student engagement and class room management and instructional. Three primary goals of the the evaluation process consist of; Goal 1: Improve preparation for secondary teachers entering high-needs school districts. Goal 2: Increase retention of new secondary school…

Obesity is now not only an epidemic in America but a worldwide public-health crisis with increasing high cost for the economy and poor medical consequences. Recent study shows that more than 90% of people asked say that individuals and parents are somewhat or completely to blame for the rise of obesity. But what make one person more or less responsible than other. When we divide the world into groups according to their gender, income, background, race, we can see a clear difference that would…