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  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,092 Views
20 Pages

This paper uses the methods of System Generalized method of moments (SYS-GMM), mediation effect and linkage effect to investigate the relationship among social organization participation, government governance and the equalization of basic public ser...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental and Health Efficiency Evaluation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,674 Views
16 Pages

29 January 2023

The key to promoting urbanization in China is to achieve urban integration of migrant peasant workers, and basic public health services may have a potential social impact on the subjective welfare of migrant peasant workers. In this paper, we use dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,670 Views
20 Pages

13 October 2024

Digital transformation is spreading from urban to rural areas, and the construction of digital villages has become a key growth point for rural sustainable development globally. Digital villages improve the level of basic public services delivery in...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,205 Views
17 Pages

20 June 2023

The basic unit of rural revitalization is the village. Rural revitalization can be comprehensively promoted by using rural typology as an instrument for rural zoning planning, which is a significant factor. This study clarified the relationship betwe...

(This article belongs to the Topic What Climate Adaptation Looks Like: Improving Healthy Landscape)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,777 Views
13 Pages

On the basis of the China Migrants Dynamic Survey Data of 2015, the author provides an analysis of how a different household registration impacts migrants’ access to preventive care provided by public health services, such as health records and...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,572 Views
19 Pages

30 July 2023

Promoting the coordinated development of basic public services, urbanization, and tourism is crucial to the high-quality development of regional economies. Taking China’s provinces as the research unit, an evaluation system was constructed, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impact of Sustainable Tourism on Regional Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,698 Views
10 Pages

We aimed to quantitatively estimate the amount of pressure that was placed on basic public health care services (BPHS) due to the universal two-child policy issued in 2015 by comparing the workload change in maternal and child health management and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,875 Views
23 Pages

18 September 2025

Amid demographic restructuring, analyzing the dynamic interplay between public services and population development is vital for advancing coordinated regional development in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Urban Agglomeration (BTHUA). This stud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Land Use and Spatial Planning in Urban and Rural Areas)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,732 Views
14 Pages

7 December 2019

National basic public health services (BPHSs) are important for promoting the health of rural populations. A better understanding of rural BPHSs from the viewpoint of residents utilizing the services can help health-related departments and primary he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,758 Views
18 Pages

Background: Village doctors, as gatekeepers for the health of rural residents in China, are confronted with adversity in providing the basic public health services (BPHS), which has significantly impeded them from providing high quality BPHS. This st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rural Health Workforce)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,279 Views
23 Pages

25 December 2023

Objectively assessing the impact of various basic public service facilities on social–spatial differentiation has become a prerequisite for promoting urban social integration and development. However, in practice, the configuration of basic pub...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Architecture, Cities, and Sustainable Development Goals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,139 Views
23 Pages

4 September 2022

Basic public services are essential to ensure regional social equity and promote regional integrated development. As the Yangtze River Delta region (YRDR) is an example of integrated regional development in China, the integration of basic public serv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Supporting Assessment and Planning Processes for a Good Anthropocene)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,377 Views
19 Pages

The equitable distribution of basic educational services is crucial for attaining educational fairness and promoting balanced demographic and economic growth. This research leverages point-of-interest (POI) data to analyze the spatial arrangement of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geographic Information Systems and Cartography for a Sustainable World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,444 Views
18 Pages

26 December 2025

The construction of a digital government is a significant initiative to modernize the national governance system and enhance governance capabilities, with the creation of public value focused on optimizing the supply level of basic public services wi...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,523 Views
8 Pages

Health management and health education are two important tasks in the national basic public health service project with a wide audience, large service volume, and high accessibility. From 2009 to 2018, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China la...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Implementation and Perspective on Community Based Health Promotion Interventions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,839 Views
19 Pages

14 August 2021

The accessibility of basic services in rural settlements in the South Moravian Region was evaluated; the accessibility by public transport was taken into account because the accessibility by individual car transport does not manifest any problems. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Competitiveness, Attractiveness and Socio-Economic Development of Highly Peripheral and Marginal Regions: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,763 Views
27 Pages

A Catalyst for the Improvement of Inclusive Public Service: The Role of High-Speed Rail

  • Jiangye He,
  • Junwei Wang,
  • Kehu Tan,
  • Chang Ma and
  • Junda Huang

14 May 2025

Basic public service (BPS) serves as a crucial connection between governments and citizens, impacting the standard of living and well-being of the populace. Can High-Speed Rail (HSR) service incentivize local governments to improve the fiscal competi...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,132 Views
14 Pages

Since 2009, the Chinese government has launched a basic public health services (BPHS) equalization program to provide the same BPHS to all the citizens. However, utilization of BPHS among older migrants is still low. The purpose of this paper was to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health Humanities: Social Determinants of Access to Healthcare in Migrant and Minority Populations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,425 Views
17 Pages

2 April 2020

This paper uses an actuarial model to evaluate the effect of poverty alleviation policy on the sustainability of China’s basic pension funding for urban and rural residents (BPFUUR). Because of the poverty alleviation policy, China’s basi...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainability in Geographic Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,732 Views
13 Pages

Level of Trust of the Population in the Unified Health System in the Midst of the COVID-19 Crisis in Brazil

  • Juliana Soares Tenório de Araújo,
  • Felipe Mendes Delpino,
  • Thaís Zamboni Berra,
  • Heriederson Sávio Dias Moura,
  • Antônio Carlos Vieira Ramos,
  • Murilo César do Nascimento,
  • Jonas Bodini Alonso,
  • Ruan Víctor dos Santos Silva,
  • Giselle Lima de Freitas and
  • Ricardo Alexandre Arcêncio
  • + 2 authors

Objective: to assess the level of trust in health services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. Methods: A cross-sectional study, carried out between 2020 and 2021, among Brazilians over 18. Nonprobabilistic sampling was used. Descriptive and infe...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,345 Views
26 Pages

Resilience of Interurban Public Transport and Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Connectivity in Sparsely Populated Regions

  • Juan Miguel Vega Naranjo,
  • Rafael González-Escobar,
  • Montaña Jiménez-Espada and
  • Jonathan Galeano Vivas

29 October 2024

The aim of this research consisted of assessing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the interurban public transport system in a rural region with a sparse population density, considering the number of tickets sold and passengers in each locality,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Land Expansion and Regional Inequality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,958 Views
17 Pages

Poverty is a global problem associated with deprivation; it is marked by the lack of access to the minimum social needs for people’s integration and well-being. This work aims to measure the relationships between multidimensional poverty and un...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,858 Views
29 Pages

Assessment of Accessibility of Public Transport by Using Temporal and Spatial Analysis

  • Renata Żochowska,
  • Marcin Jacek Kłos,
  • Piotr Soczówka and
  • Marcin Pilch

2 December 2022

The development of sustainable transport is a priority in cities. It should aim to increase the number of trips made by public transport while minimizing social costs and the negative impact on the environment. The intensive development of cities fro...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Public Transport in Urban Areas – Optimization, Management and Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,506 Views
18 Pages

22 July 2024

With the rapid expansion of cities, the construction of 15-minute communities has become an important way to improve the urban living environment and enhance the quality of life of residents. In this study, based on the perspective of a 15-minute com...

(This article belongs to the Topic Biophilic Cities and Communities: Human-Environment Interaction and Sustainable Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,987 Views
18 Pages

5 August 2022

Urban public services can significantly promote the improvement and capacity of urban innovation, yet there are differences. Although some studies have analyzed the impact of public services on technological innovation, few studies have taken Chinese...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,464 Views
24 Pages

Education infrastructure is a critical public service facility in rural areas. The evaluation of rural education infrastructure could have important implications for the spatial distribution optimization of public educational services in countryside...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,141 Views
16 Pages

14 September 2023

Equity is one of the fundamental principles in the planning of public service facilities. In recent years, many cities have started to promote the construction of 15 min community living circles with the aim of providing residents with more equitable...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Territory Spatial Planning toward High-Quality Development in China II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,202 Views
21 Pages

Management of Competitiveness of Metropolis Public Transport in the COVID-19 Pandemic Based on Core Consumers’ Values

  • Galina Timokhina,
  • Natalia Ivashkova,
  • Irina Skorobogatykh,
  • Taira Murtuzalieva and
  • Zhanna Musatova

The aim of the paper focuses on generating insights into the competitiveness of public transport in Moscow City in relation to the use of personal cars, considering individual basic consumer values and environmental factors, including the impact of t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,226 Views
11 Pages

16 February 2025

Urban mobility (UM) refers to the movement of people and goods within urban areas. It is a multidimensional and dynamic aspect of urban life. Everyday mobility is constantly increasing. Therefore, encouraging a modal shift from private vehicles to mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Technologies in Public Transport and Logistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
7,704 Views
19 Pages

Public medical service facilities are among the most basic needs of the public and are directly related to residents’ health. The balanced development of medical service facilities is of great significance. Public medical service facilities can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,557 Views
17 Pages

Users’ Perceptions of Local Public Water and Waste Services: A Case Study for Sustainable Development

  • M. Isabel Sanchez-Hernandez,
  • Juan José Maldonado-Briegas,
  • Ramón Sanguino,
  • Ascensión Barroso and
  • M. Cristina Barriuso

27 May 2021

Access to safe drinking water is essential to good health, a basic human right, and a component of effective policy for health protection. Improving the quality of local public water and waste services is one of the United Nations Sustainable Develop...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Development and Renewable Energy Trends)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,623 Views
19 Pages

1 August 2019

The aim of this article is to measure the impact of basic sanitation services on the mortality rate of children under five years of age (U5MR) in the municipalities of the State of Alagoas, Brazil. A multivariate multiple linear regression model was...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,817 Views
24 Pages

Transparency, Governance, and Public Service Management: Challenges of Citizen Participation in Ecatepec de Morelos

  • Alan Jesús Torres-Sandoval,
  • María Elena Tavera-Cortés,
  • Marco Aurelio Acevedo-Ortiz and
  • Yolanda Donají Ortiz-Hernández

16 April 2025

Innovation in public sector management is essential for improving service delivery and strengthening citizen trust. However, in highly populated municipalities with budgetary constraints, such as Ecatepec de Morelos, administrative opacity and ineffi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Public Sector Innovation: Strategies and Best Practices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,049 Views
16 Pages

Many post-secondary institutions have implemented anti-poverty programs to address students’ basic needs insecurities. This study examined the provision of 17 types of basic needs programs at Texas Hispanic-serving institutions over the course...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,532 Views
36 Pages

Business Models of Public Smart Services for Sustainable Development

  • Patrícia Janošková,
  • Filip Bajza,
  • Katarína Repková-Štofková,
  • Zuzana Štofková and
  • Erika Loučanová

28 August 2024

The smart city concept has entered the public debate over the last decade as a concept for the development of urban space for the efficiency, improvement and availability of public and private services and sustainability. The Business Models Canvas i...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,363 Views
20 Pages

Imbalances in allocating public service resources are a universal problem worldwide, especially in urban and rural areas. As a developing country with a significant imbalance between urban and rural areas, China is representative of the unbalanced al...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
8,531 Views
20 Pages

29 November 2018

The premium effect of public service facilities on the housing market is a critical determinant of housing prices, leading to the competition of different social groups in the housing market and fueling spatial inequality. Taking Xi’an, China a...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,025 Views
15 Pages

Optimizing the allocation of basic medical services and ensuring their equity are necessary to improve the ability to respond to public health emergencies and promote health equity in the context of COVID-19. This study aims to analyze the equity of...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Care Sciences & Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,178 Views
14 Pages

Public Health Services, Health Human Capital, and Relative Poverty of Rural Families

  • Yingya Yang,
  • Liangliang Zhou,
  • Chongmei Zhang,
  • Xin Luo,
  • Yihan Luo and
  • Wei Wang

With the successful completion of the battle against poverty, after 2020, the focus and difficulty of China’s poverty governance will change from solving absolute poverty to alleviating relative poverty. Analyzing and studying the alleviation o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Livelihoods Resilience and Sustainable Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,024 Views
17 Pages

In 2020, COVID-19 triggered concern about the safety of public transport. To meet passengers’ expectations regarding safety, the public transport department has stepped up its pandemic prevention services. Some prevention services require passe...

(This article belongs to the Collection Epidemiological Lifestyle Analysis and Infection Prevention in Public Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,135 Views
21 Pages

20 February 2024

In China, grid workers have increasingly become an indispensable and important force in basic social governance. They not only undertake several tasks, such as gaining publicity, collecting information, resolving conflicts, and assisting in managemen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Managing Organizational Behaviors for Sustainable Wellbeing at Work)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,634 Views
14 Pages

Promotion Incentive, Population Mobility and Public Service Expenditure

  • Jiali Yu,
  • Mengfan Xia,
  • Shangguang Yang and
  • Jinyue Zhu

31 January 2023

Improving the level of public service expenditure is the basic condition to meet people’s growing yearning for a better life in a new era. This study aims to examine the influence of promotion incentive and population mobility on public service...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,325 Views
16 Pages

Characterizing Social Determinants of Maternal and Child Health: A Qualitative Community Health Needs Assessment in Underserved Areas

  • Sara Rizvi Jafree,
  • Gulzar Shah,
  • Rubeena Zakar,
  • Anam Muzamill,
  • Humna Ahsan,
  • Syeda Khadija Burhan,
  • Ambreen Javed and
  • Rana Rubab Durrani

7 August 2023

This study aimed to identify social determinants of maternal and child health (SDoH) in Pakistan. Using a qualitative study design, data were collected from community members in seven underserved areas of Lahore City, Pakistan. A total of 22 qualitat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Maternal and Child Health and Healthcare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,005 Views
16 Pages

How Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected the Perceptions of Public Space Employees?

  • Soyoung Han,
  • Cermetrius Lynell Bohannon and
  • Yoonku Kwon

3 December 2021

The purpose of this study is to derive the subjective perception about COVID-19 of public space employees and to identify the characteristics of COVID-19 related issues. By using the Q-method, 24 workers in four public spaces located in Blacksburg, V...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Use and Perception of Urban Green Space)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,552 Views
16 Pages

4 July 2025

In the era of new urbanization and shared prosperity, addressing the entrenched contradiction between unequal urban–rural public services and consumption disparities is central to achieving sustainable urban–rural development. As the worl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Development of Regions and Cities: Improvements in Planning and the Inhabitants’ Quality of Life)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,360 Views
11 Pages

Study on the Status of Health Service Utilization among Caregivers of Left-Behind Children in Poor Rural Areas of Hunan Province: A Baseline Survey

  • Meimei Ji,
  • Yefu Zhang,
  • Jiaojiao Zou,
  • Tong Yuan,
  • Amber Tang,
  • Jing Deng,
  • Lina Yang,
  • Mingzhi Li,
  • Jihua Chen and
  • Qian Lin
  • + 1 author

Background: The caregivers of left-behind children (CLBC) in China’s poor, rural areas are mostly elderly and women. Their health status and access to health services have not been previously characterized. This study aims to explore the status of CL...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,404 Views
27 Pages

7 October 2024

The spatial allocation of urban public sports facilities is critical for ensuring equitable access to basic public services and maintaining urban spatial cohesion. This study examines central cities in the Yangtze River Delta, utilizing Point of Inte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Land Use, Urban Vitality and Sustainable Urban Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,233 Views
22 Pages

20 January 2024

Promoting the accessibility of basic public service facilities is key to safeguarding and improving people’s lives. Effective public service provision is especially important for the sustainable development of less developed regions. Lincang in...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,480 Views
17 Pages

8 September 2020

With the improvement of social housing policies and an increase in the quantity of public housing stock, issues such as poor property management service, poor housing quality, and insufficient public services remain to be resolved. This study focuses...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
8,654 Views
9 Pages

The world’s rapidly aging population brings serious challenges which could be addressed by changes in behaviour and policy that promote good health in older age. However, these cheap and simple interventions are not available in many countries....

(This article belongs to the Collection Aging and Public Health)

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