Downtown Eastside
A cost-benefit/cost-effectiveness analysis of an unsanctioned supervised smoking facility in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Canada
... Background: Smoking crack involves the risk of transmitting diseases such as HIV and hepatitis C (HCV). The current study determines whether the formerly unsanctioned supervised smoking facility (SSF) — operated by the ...
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Telling our stories: heroin-assisted treatment and SNAP activism in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver
... BC: British Columbia; DTES: Downtown Eastside; HAT: Heroin-assisted treatment; HRJ: Harm Reduction Journal; Le Dain Commission: Canadian Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of[r] ...
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Opportunities to learn and barriers to change: crack cocaine use in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver
... In 2004, a team comprised of researchers and service providers launched the Safer Crack Use, Outreach, Research and Education (SCORE) project in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ...
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“Like a lots happened with my whole childhood”: violence, trauma, and addiction in pregnant and postpartum women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
... The Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver, British Columbia, is a small geographical area of about 17,000 people [3] that has often been described as the poorest neighbourhood in Canada ...
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Peer-engagement and its role in reducing the risky behavior among crack and methamphetamine smokers of the Downtown Eastside community of Vancouver, Canada
... CDSA, Controlled Drugs and Substances Act; DTES, Downtown Eastside; DURC, drug user resource centre; HCV, hepatitis C virus; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; PWIDS, people who inject d[r] ...
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Activism and scientific research: 20 years of community action by the Vancouver area network of drug users
... DTES: Downtown Eastside; PWUDs: People who use drugs; VANDU: Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users.. Acknowledgements.[r] ...
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Difficulty accessing crack pipes and crack pipe sharing among people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada
... For the present analyses, we used univariate and multi- variate logistic regression, with the outcome being having reported crack pipe sharing in the last six months. In this instance, crack pipe sharing referred to ...
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Supervised injection facilities in Canada: past, present, and future
... Around the same time, a number of public events focused on drug use led to increased interest in SIFs. These events included visits from European officials with experience with SIFs [5] and prompted one group, known as ...
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Should North America’s first and only supervised injection facility (InSite) be expanded in British Columbia, Canada?
... In order to reduce the community, public health and fiscal impacts of injection drug use, North America’s first and only supervised injection facility (SIF), known as ‘ InSite ’ , opened its doors September 22, 2003 in ...
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Planning_for_Large_Scale_Urban_Infill___The_Case_Of_The_Stapleton_Redevelopment.pdf
... While Stapleton enjoys a good location in the metro area, nearby projects cloud its competitive position. Forest City will lead the redevelopment of the old Fitzsimons Medical Center property, adjacent to Stapleton to ...
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Restrained mobility in a high-accessible and migrant-rich area in downtown Beijing
... the downtown area of Beijing, Dashilar has good access to high-quality education resources, supermarkets, li- braries, museums, public parks, civic centers, and top-tier hos- ...
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RE-IMAGINING DOWNTOWN ROCHESTER Creation of an Equitable Urban Master Plan
... No other locations in the City of Rochester have this method or style of off-ramp. All other exits are stopped immediately by a traffic light or stop sign, and exit onto larger roadways. The on-ramp is located off of ...
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SELF MEDICATION AMONG DOWNTOWN URBAN POPULATION OF KARACHI, PAKISTAN
... Study conducted among 2626 participants using random sampling. The area of the study selected was union council 2 of Karachi having approximately 60,000 population where the flow of people from sadder town and Lyari town ...
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Intercomparison of an Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ACSM) with ambient fine aerosol measurements in downtown Atlanta, Georgia
... incomplete photochemical oxidation leading to more labile functional groups and intermediates. An offline polarity- based analysis suggested values of 1.9 to 2.1 for OM/OC ratios due to aging and oligomerization ...
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24mainstreet.pdf
... The National Main Street Center reports that since 1980 downtown investment in the. over 1,100 Main Street com-[r] ...
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Seasonal dependence of peroxyacetylnitrate (PAN) concentrations in downtown Santiago, Chile
... Measurements were carried out during October 2004 and November and December 2003 (spring), January and March 2004 (summer), April, May and June 2004 (autumn), and July, August and September 2004 (winter). Monthly ...
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"So go downtown": simulating pedestrian movement in town centres
... modelling pedestrian movement at the scale of buildings and streets (see Kurose et.. al.[r] ...
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The research status and analysis of square dance development in the downtown of Lanzhou
... Figure 5 shows, in the downtown of Lanzhou, the exercise time of the most square dancers were 30-60 minutes, followed by 60-90 minutes. Square dance is a typical aerobic exercises, from a physiological point of ...
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A Baseline for Downtown Transit-Oriented Development: Planning for Success in the Loyola Corridor
... development 5 (Downtown Development District, 2009). Although these programs do not impact any measure of susceptibility to change, they do encourage change that is consistent and urban in design. These and other ...
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PRED_Final_Dudley_Tanner.pdf
... of downtown Albemarle, a driving tour was performed to assess a pre-determined list of downtown properties identified as “distressed”, defined as below $30 per square ...the downtown (Development ...
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