Socioeconomic Challenges and Opportunities of Urbanization in Nigeria

Nigeria, with a population of about 186 million people (48% living in urban areas) in 2016, is the most populous country in Africa and eighth in the world, and by 2050 it is projected to become the third largest country in the world. This chapter highlights major challenges of rapid urbanization in Nigeria, caused mainly by in-migration of rural dwellers in search of better living conditions and employment opportunities. They include unemployment and urban poverty, social exclusion and crimes, poor housing and slum, inadequate provision of public services and proliferation of the informal sector. Notwithstanding, Nigeria can exploit these urbanization challenges and turn them into opportunities for socioeconomic development. As such, some key opportunities for sustainable urbanization in Nigeria has been discussed: (a) local economic development; (b) promoting urban sustainability; and (c) smart and knowledge city initiative. The chapter concludes with some future research directions.

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Halal Branding for Medical Tourism

Medical Tourism ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3920-9.ch014 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 248-270

Author(s):

Anita Medhekar ◽

Farooq Haq

Keyword(s):

Medical Tourism ◽

Future Research ◽

Healthcare Facilities ◽

Hospital Facility ◽

Spiritual Tourism ◽

Medical Facilities ◽

The World ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Future Research Directions ◽

Medical Tourist

This chapter explores the emergence and development of Halal branded hospitals and medical facilities as a product of Medical Tourism for Muslim patients around the world and in India. Halal tourism is a sub-category of spiritual tourism, where one has to abide by the Sharia law to satisfy Muslim customers. The main objective of the chapter is to focus on a niche category of halal medical tourism, where Sharia rules are followed to attract the medical tourist mainly from Islamic countries. This chapter also proposes a typology of Muslim medical tourist's cultural sensitivities and recommends branding and certifying Halal Medical Tourism hospitals, healthcare facilities, pharmaceuticals, products, and services to attract Muslim patients, and provides challenges and opportunities with future research directions. The case studied in this chapter is of the Global Health City, the first Halal Certified Medical Hospital facility in Chennai, India. It presents a model for halal branding of Indian Medical Tourism based on the halal decision-making paradigm for Muslim customers designed by Wilson and Liu (2010). The model presented here indicates attitudes of being rational or emotional and elements reflecting affective and cognitive feelings for Muslim patients seeking halal treatment in halal hospitals.

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Halal Branding for Medical Tourism

Emerging Research on Islamic Marketing and Tourism in the Global Economy ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-6272-8.ch008 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 160-189 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Anita Medhekar ◽

Farooq Haq

Keyword(s):

Medical Tourism ◽

Future Research ◽

Healthcare Facilities ◽

Hospital Facility ◽

Spiritual Tourism ◽

Medical Facilities ◽

The World ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Future Research Directions ◽

Medical Tourist

This chapter explores the emergence and development of Halal branded hospitals and medical facilities as a product of Medical Tourism for Muslim patients around the world and in India. Halal tourism is a sub-category of spiritual tourism, where one has to abide by the Sharia law to satisfy Muslim customers. The main objective of the chapter is to focus on a niche category of halal medical tourism, where Sharia rules are followed to attract the medical tourist mainly from Islamic countries. This chapter also proposes a typology of Muslim medical tourist's cultural sensitivities and recommends branding and certifying Halal Medical Tourism hospitals, healthcare facilities, pharmaceuticals, products, and services to attract Muslim patients, and provides challenges and opportunities with future research directions. The case studied in this chapter is of the Global Health City, the first Halal Certified Medical Hospital facility in Chennai, India. It presents a model for halal branding of Indian Medical Tourism based on the halal decision-making paradigm for Muslim customers designed by Wilson and Liu (2010). The model presented here indicates attitudes of being rational or emotional and elements reflecting affective and cognitive feelings for Muslim patients seeking halal treatment in halal hospitals.

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Halal Branding for Medical Tourism

Digital Marketing and Consumer Engagement ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5187-4.ch061 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 1190-1212 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Anita Medhekar ◽

Farooq Haq

Keyword(s):

Medical Tourism ◽

Future Research ◽

Healthcare Facilities ◽

Hospital Facility ◽

Spiritual Tourism ◽

Medical Facilities ◽

The World ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Future Research Directions ◽

Medical Tourist

This chapter explores the emergence and development of Halal branded hospitals and medical facilities as a product of Medical Tourism for Muslim patients around the world and in India. Halal tourism is a sub-category of spiritual tourism, where one has to abide by the Sharia law to satisfy Muslim customers. The main objective of the chapter is to focus on a niche category of halal medical tourism, where Sharia rules are followed to attract the medical tourist mainly from Islamic countries. This chapter also proposes a typology of Muslim medical tourist's cultural sensitivities and recommends branding and certifying Halal Medical Tourism hospitals, healthcare facilities, pharmaceuticals, products, and services to attract Muslim patients, and provides challenges and opportunities with future research directions. The case studied in this chapter is of the Global Health City, the first Halal Certified Medical Hospital facility in Chennai, India. It presents a model for halal branding of Indian Medical Tourism based on the halal decision-making paradigm for Muslim customers designed by Wilson and Liu (2010). The model presented here indicates attitudes of being rational or emotional and elements reflecting affective and cognitive feelings for Muslim patients seeking halal treatment in halal hospitals.

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Towards eco-social housing in Vietnam: challenges and opportunities

MATEC Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/matecconf/201819301001 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 193 ◽

pp. 01001

Author(s):

Van Thuong Le ◽

Tuan Tran ◽

Truc Truong

Keyword(s):

Low Income ◽

Social Housing ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Housing Demand ◽

Living Conditions ◽

Local Economy ◽

Rapid Urbanization ◽

Long Run ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

The Government

Since Doi Moi (Reform) policy in 1986, Vietnam has experienced rapid urbanization and economic growth. Urbanization has resulted in increasingly high housing demand in the urban areas but this has largely unmet, especially housing for low-income people. Development of social housing for low-income and under-privileged people in cities has been seen as an urgent and important task of the government to pursue stable social and economic development. Low-income people are most vulnerable to environmental impacts and in need of energy-efficient houses to reduce their cost of living. Eco-social housing is seen as a solution to protect the natural environment as well as to boost local economy, improve living conditions particularly for low income people. Through preliminary assessments of three social buildings at three distinct regions of Vietnam, this paper found that despite many challenges, eco-social housing is a solution to Vietnam's needs in providing houses with adequate living conditions to low-income people while protecting the environment and achieving sustainable eco-social development in the long run.

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Challenges and Opportunities in Robotic Food Handling: A Review

Frontiers in Robotics and AI ◽

10.3389/frobt.2021.789107 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 8 ◽

Author(s):

Zhongkui Wang ◽

Shinichi Hirai ◽

Sadao Kawamura

Keyword(s):

Low Cost ◽

Food Products ◽

Future Research ◽

Food Handling ◽

Research Directions ◽

Fundamental Information ◽

Food Recognition ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Future Research Directions ◽

End Effectors

Despite developments in robotics and automation technologies, several challenges need to be addressed to fulfill the high demand for automating various manufacturing processes in the food industry. In our opinion, these challenges can be classified as: the development of robotic end-effectors to cope with large variations of food products with high practicality and low cost, recognition of food products and materials in 3D scenario, better understanding of fundamental information of food products including food categorization and physical properties from the viewpoint of robotic handling. In this review, we first introduce the challenges in robotic food handling and then highlight the advances in robotic end-effectors, food recognition, and fundamental information of food products related to robotic food handling. Finally, future research directions and opportunities are discussed based on an analysis of the challenges and state-of-the-art developments.

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Nine Years of Mobile Healthcare Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering (iJOE) ◽

10.3991/ijoe.v17i10.25243 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (10) ◽

pp. 144

Author(s):

Javed Ali ◽

Ahmad Jusoh ◽

Norhalima Idris ◽

Alhamzah F. Abbas ◽

Ahmed H. Alsharif

Keyword(s):

Citation Analysis ◽

Healthcare Research ◽

Future Research ◽

Central Theme ◽

Research Directions ◽

Mobile Healthcare ◽

The World ◽

Author Keywords ◽

Future Research Directions ◽

Scopus Database

Purpose: The purpose of the paper was to explore the central keyword searched (e.g., mobile healthcare). It also aimed at identifying the valuable contributions made by authors, journals, countries, and institutions and their associations in ‘mobile healthcare’ search around the world. Methodology: Data was extracted from 2012 to 2020 by using Scopus database and analysed through VOSviewer software and MS Excel. PRISMA guidelines were used to screen the records. Analysis: Co-authorship, Co-occurrence, Bibliographic Coupling and Co-citation analysis were executed to identify the links and collaborations among the authors, countries, author keywords and documents globally. Findings: Results showed that Yang X. had the highest association with other authors and Sood, S.K. had published more documents than others. Australia was found to have the highest association with other countries, and India was leading other countries in publications. Computers and Electrical Engineering was found to be the leading journal in publication of documents. Originality: This study, to best of our knowledge, was the first of its kind in mapping the ‘mobile healthcare’ search which was designed till 2020. This will aid in shaping and understanding the central theme and set the future research directions for the researchers.

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ICT

E-Innovation for Sustainable Development of Rural Resources During Global Economic Crisis - Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-4550-9.ch003 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 22-34

Author(s):

Julián Briz ◽

José María Duran ◽

Isabel Felipe ◽

Teresa Briz

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Future Research ◽

Rural And Urban Areas ◽

Rural And Urban ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Future Research Directions ◽

The University

Agriculture is facing new challenges in rural and urban areas, and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) may play a significant role. In this chapter, there is a background description of the ICT sector in the interface of urban and rural communities within the framework of agriculture. It describes some case analyses focused in agronomy and social sciences. In agronomy, the focuses are environment, food production, and pollution. In socioeconomics, there is a brief identification of ICT applications such as the collaboration between the university and firms. Considering the heterogeneousness of the analysis, the future research directions include different methods of studies for ICT programs (house of quality, structural organization, and others).

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Emergent Issues in the World War Against Global Terrorism

Violent Extremism ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7119-3.ch023 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 429-449

Author(s):

Kenneth David Strang

Keyword(s):

Critical Analysis ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Contingency Management ◽

Future Research ◽

The World ◽

Culture Of Fear ◽

Emerging Culture ◽

Future Research Directions ◽

Global Terrorism ◽

The Impact

The chapter examines the impact of global terrorism on the top most-impacted nations. Global terrorism continues to impact many nations. There are two impacts – actual attacks causing deaths injuries and/or property damage as well as the emerging culture of fear where human rights have regressed – both impact the risk and contingency management community of practice. The critical analysis method is integrated with a meta-analysis of selected studies. Retrospective and inductive analysis techniques are applied. The risk of global terrorism is reviewed and calculated for the most-impacted nations. The recommendations address the emergent risks for contingency planning specialists, practitioners and researchers to consider. Additionally, future research directions are provided.

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Industry 4.0 in Pumping Applications

Research Anthology on Cross-Industry Challenges of Industry 4.0 ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-8548-1.ch047 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 941-954

Author(s):

Luiz Eduardo Marques Bastos

Keyword(s):

Working Conditions ◽

Industry 4.0 ◽

Business Models ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Future Research ◽

Research Directions ◽

Equipment Operation ◽

The World ◽

Future Research Directions ◽

Traditional Industry

This chapter addresses the so-called Industry 4.0 and some of its applications in industrial pumps, seeking to emphasize its characteristics and benefits. The introduction of 4.0 industry technologies in this traditional industry can cause profound changes in existing business models, providing greater customer satisfaction, either improving the effectiveness of equipment operation, contributing to better adjustment to working conditions, and also prolonging their life cycle. We are still in the early stages of these technologies and a lot is yet to evolve; however, there are already interesting examples developed by some pump manufacturers around the world, some of which will be mentioned in this chapter. It is subdivided into three main parts, namely brief historical panorama from the first industrial revolution to Industry 4.0, current applications in the industrial pump industry, and finally, future research directions and conclusion.

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