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Journal of Urban Health, 1998 New York's public health priorities initiative, Communities Working Together for a Healthier New York, creates a framework for communities, including urban areas, to identify and address their most pressing public health problems. It is both a call to action and a guide for the state's communities.
Barbara A. DeBuono
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Multisectoral interventions for urban health in Africa: a mixed-methods systematic review [PDF]
Global Health ActionIncreasing evidence suggests that urban health objectives are best achieved through a multisectoral approach. This approach requires multiple sectors to consider health and well-being as a central aspect of their policy development and implementation ...
Meelan Thondoo +18 more
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Factors associated with essential newborn care practices among non-institutional births in urban Bangladesh: evidence from Bangladesh Urban Health Survey 2021 [PDF]
Global Health ActionBackground Non-institutional births remain prevalent in low- and middle-income countries, associated with a majority of adverse maternal and child health outcomes, including maternal and child mortality.
Shimlin Jahan Khanam +4 more
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Urbanization, Urbanicity, and Health [PDF]
Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2002 A majority of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2007. The most rapidly urbanizing cities are in less-wealthy nations, and the pace of growth varies among regions. There are few data linking features of cities to the health of populations.
Vlahov, David, Galea, Sandro
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The Urban Health "Advantage" [PDF]
Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2005 Cities represent the dominant mode of living in the developed world and the pace of urbanization worldwide will continue to accelerate over the coming decades, particularly in the developing world. According to United Nations 2000 forecasts, about half of the world’s population is urban and by the year 2030 nearly two thirds of the world’s population ...
Sandro Galea +4 more
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Educational Interventions and its Impact on Prevention of Diarrhoea in Urban Slums of Khordha, Odisha, India [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2019 Introduction: Diarrhoea is a frequently found disease among children which causes childhood morbidity and mortality. Effective management of diarrhoea with Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) immensely helps reducing the morbidity and mortality from ...
Jagatabandhu Mohapatra +3 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021 While ambitious carbon reduction policies are needed to avoid dangerous levels of climate change, the costs of these policies can be balanced by wide ranging health benefits for local communities.
Maria D. Castillo +13 more
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Urban as a Determinant of Health [PDF]
Journal of Urban Health, 2007 Cities are the predominant mode of living, and the growth in cities is related to the expansion of areas that have concentrated disadvantage. The foreseeable trend is for rising inequities across a wide range of social and health dimensions. Although qualitatively different, this trend exists in both the developed and developing worlds.
Sandro Galea +7 more
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Do women in major cities experience better health? A comparison of chronic conditions and their risk factors between women living in major cities and other cities in Indonesia [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2015 Background: Inhabitants of rural areas can be tempted to migrate to urban areas for the type and range of facilities available. Although urban inhabitants may benefit from greater access to human and social services, living in a big city can also bring ...
Yodi Christiani +3 more
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