Factors affecting the distribution of small mammals in an urban area

Agricultural land conversion (ALC) is an incentive–driven process. In this paper we further investigate the inter–relationship between land economic value (LEV) and ALC. To achieve this goal, we calculated LEV for agricultural and non-agricultural (housing) uses in two areas in East Java, Indonesia. The first area represents suburban agriculture, facing rapid urbanization and experiencing high rate of ALC. The second area represents rural agriculture with zero ALC. Furthermore, we identified factors affecting LEV in both areas for both uses. The resut of this study show that agricultural land yielded higher economic benefit in rural area. Conversely, comparing to agricultural land, housing creates 7 times higher value in urban area. Moreover, agricultural land shown to create higher profit after converted. Ironically, the similar comparison doesn’t exists in rural area. Agricultural land only yielded 19% more value, indicate that agricultural land can be easily converted. It is also proven by the growing number of new urban core in the periphery area. There are several factors affecting land economic value, for agricultural use, soil fertility, accessibility, and cropping pattern are important variables. While accessibility and location in urban area increases land value for housing.

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A descriptive study to assess factors affecting core indicators of infant and young child feeding practices in urban area of Gujarat State, India

International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health ◽

10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20161365 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 1101-1106 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Bhavik Rana ◽

Haresh Chandwani ◽

K. Sonaliya ◽

Arpit Prajapati

Keyword(s):

Young Child ◽

Urban Area ◽

Feeding Practices ◽

Descriptive Study ◽

Gujarat State ◽

Child Feeding ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Young Child Feeding ◽

Child Feeding Practices ◽

Infant And Young Child

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Determinants of Tobacco Use in a Selected Urban Area of Bangladesh

Bangladesh Medical Journal ◽

10.3329/bmj.v38i2.3573 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

pp. 48-52 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Gias Uddin ◽

Md Mizanur Rahman ◽

Syed Md Akram Hussain

Keyword(s):

Urban Area ◽

Tobacco Use ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Tobacco Consumption ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Cluster Sampling ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Middle Income ◽

Factors Affecting

Tobacco consumption is harmful to health, and is one of the main causes of death in worldwide. It is evident that the prevalence of tobacco consumption is raising in most of low and middle income countries. Considering this, a cross sectional study was conducted in a selected urban area of southern Bangladesh with a view to assessing the prevalence of tobacco consumption and factors affecting the use of tobacco use. Multistage cluster sampling technique was adopted to select the urban ward and the respondents were selected systematically. A total of 399 respondents were interviewed face to face using a semi-structured interview schedule. Analysis shows that 30% of the population of aged 18 years above were currently using tobacco of any form. The mean age of starting tobacco use was 18.8 years. The most frequent form of tobacco use was smoking cigarette followed by Zarda with betal quid. Multivariate analysis revealed that illiterate respondents were 3.3 times more tobacco users than their educated counterparts. It was also higher among the Muslims (OR=4.979; 95% CI=1.255-19.754). Tobacco use was also high among the labourer (OR=8.541; 95% CI=2.422-30.120) and businessmen (OR=7.727, 95% CI=2.501-23.875). However, no statistically significant association was found between current tobacco use and age, sex, housing condition and knowledge on tobacco use (p>0.05). The finding of this study suggests that as tobacco use is more prevalent among the poor and illiterate segment of the population, strong implementation of anti-tobacco legislation is warranted. DOI: 10.3329/bmj.v38i2.3573 Bangladesh Medical Journal 38(2) 2009 48-52

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