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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, Sandro Galea, Nicholas Freudenberg, David Vlahov, David Vlahov   +4 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, Sandro Galea, Vijay Nandi, Danielle C. Ompad, David Vlahov, Nicholas Freudenberg, Fernando Augusto Proietti, Andrew Quinn   +7 more
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Biodiversity and Health in the Urban Environment [PDF]

Current Environmental Health Reports, 2021
Abstract Purpose of review Biodiversity underpins urban ecosystem functions that are essential for human health and well-being. Understanding how biodiversity relates to human health is a developing frontier for science, policy and practice.
Sarah Lindley, Aletta Bonn, Aletta Bonn, Penny A. Cook, Melissa R. Marselle   +4 more
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The Health of an Urban Community [PDF]

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 1952
Present-day society urgently needs reliable measures, both local and national, of the health of the people. Declines in death rates undoubtedly indicate great improvements in public health in terms of survival, but do not necessarily represent equal declines in the numbers of the sick and the magnitude of their needs.
S. A. Sklaroff, Lilli Stein
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Cities and population health. [PDF]

, 2005
A majority of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2007 and cities are exerting growing influence on the health of both urban and non-urban residents. Although there long has been substantial interest in the associations between city living
Freudenberg, Nicholas, Galea, Sandro, Vlahov, David   +2 more
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Promoting ecosystem and human health in urban areas using green infrastructure: A literature review [PDF]

, 2007
Europe is a highly urbanised continent. The consequent loss and degradation of urban and peri-urban green space could adversely affect ecosystems as well as human health and well-being.
Aleksandra Kaźmierczak, Barrett, Bartley, Beier, Bengtsson, Bixler, Bodin, Bolund, Booth, Bratton, Brunner, Brussard, Butler, Cairns, Calow, Collins, Costanza, Costanza, Davey-Smith, Davey-Smith, de Groot, de Leo, de Vries, Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, Diez-Roux, Diez-Roux, Diez-Roux, Dunn, Ehrlich, Faber-Taylor, Flores, Grimm, Haddad, Haeuber, Haila, Hartig, Hartig, Henwood, Hobbs, Horwitz, Humpel, Humpel, Jari Niemela, Jongman, Kalevi Korpela, Kaplan, Kaplan, Kim, Kinzig, Konstantinos Tzoulas, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Kuo, Kuo, Kuo, Kuo, Lackey, Levin, Li, Loreau, Lu, Macintyre, Macintyre, Mageau, Mayer, Millennium Assessment, Moss, Naeem, Newell, Noss, Odum, Opdam, O’Campo, Paton, Patz, Payne, Philip James, Pickett, Pickett, Pikora, Rapport, Rapport, Rapport, Rapport, Rioux, Ross, Rudlin, Sallis, Sandström, Schrijnen, Simberloff, St Leger, Stephen Venn, Stokols, Takano, Tanaka, Tilman, Troyer, Turner, Turner, Ulrich, Ulrich, Ulrich, van der Ryn, van Kamp, Vesa Yli-Pelkonen, Walmsley, Wells, Westphal, Whitford, Wicklum, Wilson, Yli-Pelkonen, Zielhuis, Zielinski-Gutierrez, Zipperer   +119 more
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Urban Health and Wellbeing [PDF]

, 2021
AbstractThis chapter explores how the Internet of Things and the utilization of cutting-edge information technology are shaping global research and discourse on the health and wellbeing of urban populations. The chapter begins with a review of smart cities and health and then delves into the types of data available to researchers.
Sabel, Clive E., Amegbor, Prince M., Zhang, Zhaoxi, Chen, Tzu Hsin Karen, Poulsen, Maria B., Hertel, Ole, Sigsgaard, Torben, Horsdal, Henriette T., Pedersen, Carsten B., Khan, Jibran   +9 more
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Urbanisation and health in China. [PDF]

, 2012
China has seen the largest human migration in history, and the country's rapid urbanisation has important consequences for public health. A provincial analysis of its urbanisation trends shows shifting and accelerating rural-to-urban migration across the
Carlton, Elizabeth J, Gong, Peng, Jiang, Qingwu, Liang, Song, Remais, Justin V, Wang, Lei, Wu, Jianyong   +6 more
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URBANIZATION AND HEALTH

Arta Medica, 2020
Objectives. Urbanization is a continuous and multidimensional process, often associated with industrialization, modernization and development, which inevitably influences the health of the population. The emphasis on this process is directly proportional to the degree of influence of different risk factors that define urbanization and assessment of the
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