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Promoting ecosystem and human health in urban areas using Green Infrastructure: A literature review [PDF]
Landscape and Urban Planning, 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.
Konstantinos Tzoulas +2 more
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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 +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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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 +1 more
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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 ...
D, Vlahov, S, Galea, N, Freudenberg
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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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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.
L, STEIN, S A, SKLAROFF
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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.
Marselle, MR +3 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 +5 more
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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 +2 more
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