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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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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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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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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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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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International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2022 Our study sought to explore the experiences of caregivers of urban Inuit children with respect to child health knowledge acquisition to develop community-specific best practices for health promotion initiatives.
Brian Hummel +3 more
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Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2021 Background: Quality of care (QoC) of family planning (FP) affects contraceptive use, and it varies across types of urban settlement. This study assesses the difference in service delivery point (SDP) structural and process factors between formal and ...
Zubair Lukyamuzi +8 more
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Indian Journal of Community and Family Medicine, 2020 Introduction: City health profile is a useful tool for understanding the health gap and to plan to close the health gap. Of the different tools available to draft a city health profile, the Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (HEART ...
M Siva Durga Prasad Nayak, K A Narayan
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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 +9 more
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