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Multisectoral interventions for urban health in Africa: a mixed-methods systematic review [PDF]

Global Health Action
Increasing 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, Ebele R. I. Mogo, Lambed Tatah, Monica Muti, Kim R. van Daalen, Trish Muzenda, Rachel Boscott, Omar Uwais, George Farmer, Adelaide Yue, Sarah Dalzell, Gudani Mukoma, Divya Bhagtani, Sostina Matina, Philip M. Dambisya, Kufre Okop, Charles Ebikeme, Lisa Micklesfield, Tolu Oni   +18 more
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Native opportunities to stop hypertension: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial among urban American Indian and Alaska Native adults with hypertension

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionAmerican Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) adults experience disproportionate cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality compared to other races, which may be partly attributable to higher burden of hypertension (HTN).
Ka’imi Sinclair, Cassandra J. Nguyen, Marianna S. Wetherill, Katie Nelson, Alexandra M. Jackson, Tori Taniguchi, Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, Dedra Buchwald   +7 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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Near-Collapse Buildings and Unsafe Sidewalks as Neglected Urban & Public Health Issue: A Qualitative Study

Urban Science, 2021
Public health and city planning are highly interconnected; however, the nexus between the urban state of buildings and sidewalks and corresponding public and urban health issues is lacking in Greece. In a case study in Athens, Greece, we evaluated unsafe
Alexios-Fotios A. Mentis, Jannis S. Papadopulos   +1 more
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Evidence-informed urban health and sustainability governance in two Chinese cities

Buildings & Cities, 2021
Sustainable development is best supported by intersectoral policies informed by a range of evidence and knowledge types (e.g. scientific and lay).
Helen Pineo, Ke Zhou, Yanlin Niu, Joanna Hale, Catherine Willan, Melanie Crane, Nici Zimmermann, Susan Michie, Qiyong Liu, Michael Davies   +9 more
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A Decade of Air Quality in Bogotá: A Descriptive Analysis

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2020
In this work we apply a rigorous and reproducible data analytics process for validation and analysis of the historical data from Bogotá (Colombia) air quality monitoring network since 1998.
Ivan Mura, Juan Felipe Franco, Laura Bernal, Nicolás Melo, Juan José Díaz, Raha Akhavan-Tabatabaei   +5 more
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Improving Equity in Urban Immunization in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Qualitative Document Review

Vaccines, 2023
Introduction: As the world continues to urbanize, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, understanding the barriers and effective interventions to improve urban immunization equity is critical to achieving both Immunization Agenda 2030 targets
Rachel Victoria Belt, Shakil Abdullah, Sandra Mounier-Jack, Samir V. Sodha, Niklas Danielson, Ibrahim Dadari, Folake Olayinka, Arindam Ray, Tim Crocker-Buque   +8 more
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Ecological Assessment of Particulate Material (PM₅ and PM₁₀) in Urban Habitats

Atmosphere, 2020
Trees are especially useful biological indicators. We tested the suitability of tree leaves (Common Lime) to assess PM5 and PM10 deposition in the three summer months of 2018 in Debrecen city, Hungary.
Edina Simon, Vanda Éva Molnár, Béla Tóthmérész, Szilárd Szabó   +3 more
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Improving Urban Health [PDF]

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.
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Promoting urban health and spatial resilience as contributions towards spatial justice

European Journal of Spatial Development, 2023
Spatial justice has different dimensions and is to a large extent determined by its specific political-administrative context, which guides its development on the local level. In view of the varying living conditions in urban environments I would like to
Sabine Baumgart
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