scholarly journals A Spatial Understanding of Well-Being in the City of Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Shatrov ◽  
Brian Ceh
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Statistical Regression ◽  
Spatial Understanding ◽  
Clear Link ◽  
Pattern Comparison ◽  
The City ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

Social Capital is an emergent field of study that has the potential of applications in a wide variety of fields, from public health to economics, but most widely for human well-being. This study is a spatial and statistical analysis of the relation between commonly accepted indicators of wellbeing, commonly accepted indicators of social capital, and socio-economic factors within Toronto, as well as their respective spatial patterns. This research discovered that within Toronto there does not exist a clear link between wellbeing and social capital indicators, both in terms of statistical regression analysis and spatial pattern comparison. The results suggest that, at least within the context of Toronto, much of the research surrounding the effects of high social capital on wellbeing are not applicable, at least using the methods demonstrated in this study.

scholarly journals A Spatial Understanding of Well-Being in the City of Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Shatrov ◽  
Brian Ceh
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Statistical Regression ◽  
Spatial Understanding ◽  
Clear Link ◽  
Pattern Comparison ◽  
The City ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

Social Capital is an emergent field of study that has the potential of applications in a wide variety of fields, from public health to economics, but most widely for human well-being. This study is a spatial and statistical analysis of the relation between commonly accepted indicators of wellbeing, commonly accepted indicators of social capital, and socio-economic factors within Toronto, as well as their respective spatial patterns. This research discovered that within Toronto there does not exist a clear link between wellbeing and social capital indicators, both in terms of statistical regression analysis and spatial pattern comparison. The results suggest that, at least within the context of Toronto, much of the research surrounding the effects of high social capital on wellbeing are not applicable, at least using the methods demonstrated in this study.

scholarly journals The socio-economic catalysers of COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-26
Author(s):  
Hrvoje Jošić
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Time Points ◽  
Population Variable ◽  
The World ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The City ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic was triggered on December 2019 in the city of Wuhan, China, spreading across the world causing global economic crisis and public health emergency. One could ask: what are the socio-economic factors that catalyse the spread of the disease and why are some countries more affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to investigate these socio-economic catalysers of the COVID-19 spread. For that purpose, a cross-country regression analysis was conducted at three time points (April 1st, 2020, April 15th 2020 and April 29th, 2020) using OLS, Tobit and PPML estimators. The results of the analysis have shown that countries with higher gross domestic product per capita, population, HDI and HFI indices have been hardely hit with the global COVID-19 pandemic. When some variables were transformed with by dividing it with the population variable, POPDEN and TOUR variables appeared to be significant. The AGE variable was important in the model taking into account total deaths due to the COVID-19 infection. The limitations of the paper are related to data unavailability for some variables in the most recent year. The results obtained from this analysis should be repeated, taking into account other time points and additional COVID-19 socioeconomic catalysers.

scholarly journals Financial Literacy in Japan: New Evidence Using Financial Knowledge, Behavior, and Attitude

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshihiko Kadoya ◽  
Mostafa Saidur Rahim Khan
Keyword(s):  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Financial Knowledge ◽  
Financial Behavior ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Financial Decisions ◽  
Aged People ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

Success in the current complex and sophisticated financial marketplaces depends on the ability of people to make sustainable financial decisions to improve their future well-being, for which financial literacy is a pathway. This study examines the relationship between the demographic and socio-economic factors and financial literacy in Japan by segregating financial literacy into financial knowledge, attitude, and behavior, and providing a deeper understanding of the relationships. The methodology included using data from the Financial Literacy Survey 2016 by the Central Council for Financial Services Information of Japan. We used a linear regression model to explain how demographic and socio-economic factors relate to financial knowledge, attitude, and behavior. Results show that education, the balance of financial assets, and the use of financial information are positively related, while the experience of financial trouble is negatively related to financial knowledge, attitude, and behavior. We show that males are more financially knowledgeable than females, but females are more positive than males with regard to financial behavior and financial attitude. Age is positively related to financial knowledge but negatively related to financial attitude, thus suggesting that middle-aged people in Japan are more financially knowledgeable, but younger and older people are more positive with regard to financial behavior and attitude. The findings have implications for policymakers.

scholarly journals How the City of Utrecht develops a Health and Equity in all Policies approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Weber
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Healthy Living ◽  
The City

Abstract Public health policy, spatial and environmental policies are within the Dutch municipalities’ competencies. In 2021 a new act will be implemented, in which todays’ more sectoral acts and decrees will be integrated into the so-called (Healthy) Living environment act. This will require more integrated, inter-sectoral and multi-level governance approaches. And new topics and societal challenges, such as health, sustainability and resilience, are introduced within the physical planning domains. Dutch reviews learn that public health and social domains are collaborating quite well at the local level. The cooperation and integration of health, environmental and spatial planning, on the other hand, often is less or even absent. In Utrecht, though, the latter inter-sectoral approach is strong; health in all policies has been the ‘mantra’ since several years. Supported and institutionalized through strong political leadership, and inter-disciplinary teams at neighbourhood and city level, for policy development and implementation in line with the city’s ambitions of Healthy Urban Living for Everybody. Utrecht is the healthiest and fastest growing city in the Netherlands, and aims to use its growth (in population, jobs, houses, etc.) to address health inequalities. The city is linking spatial challenges with social challenges, building and improving houses and residential areas for all citizens. A new initiative, called social renovations, will be explored and reviewed within the JAHEE process. This initiative addresses many of the relevant topics, such as healthy living environment planning, stakeholder involvement and specifically reaching ‘hard to reach groups’, and improving housing and public space conditions and subsequently health and well-being of vulnerable groups.

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