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Urban Health

2019
Abstract Urban health is the study of the health of urban populations. More than half the world’s population is now living in urban areas, and two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2030. This means that characteristics of cities—including, for example, features of the built environment—are shared by a large ...
Malo Hutson, Alex Moscovitz
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Urban Regeneration for Urban Health

2020
For some years now when attempting to regenerate the urban fabric of big cities, the field of environmental design has been tackling the challenges posed by ongoing climate change, extreme poverty, social marginalisation and health problems, where these are neither occasional nor residual situations that arise as part of development processes but ...
Battisti A., Barnocchi A., Iorio S.
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Urban Health

2010
Abstract The 1980s opened a discussion of the varying nature of health in different segments of the United States. Falling under the rubric of ‘health disparities’, a great deal of research has been published demonstrating the substantial differences in health status within a population.
Steven Whitman   +2 more
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Urban Health: An Urban Planning Perspective

Reviews on Environmental Health, 2000
Urban planning processes and practices, and their impacts on the health and well being of citizens, are numerous and take many forms. Creating living urban environments that are conducive to health and well being requires an integrated approach between urban planners and health professionals.
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Urban Health

Journal of Health Management, 2016
Three fundamental tenets of this article are: ‘whether all the sections of urban poor have been sufficiently considered’, ‘participation of urban poor vis-à-vis urban health’ and ‘communication for mobilizing community participation’. Urban poverty in India has a global significance as about 39.8 per cent of the world’s urban poor live in India (The ...
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Urban Health

2014
[Book Description]The aim of this encyclopedia is to provide a comprehensive reference work on scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life, including health-related quality of life research or also called patient-reported outcomes research.
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Urban perinatal health inequalities

The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, 2010
Large urban areas have higher perinatal mortality rates. In attaining a better understanding, we conducted an analysis on a neighborhood level in Rotterdam, the second largest city of The Netherlands.Perinatal outcome of all single pregnancies (50,000) was analyzed for the period of 2000-2006.
Poeran, Jashvant   +4 more
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Health anthropology and urban health research

Anthropology & Medicine, 2003
We live in a rapidly urbanising world. According to the 2001 statistics of the United Nations,a the proportion of urban dwellers rose from 30% in 1950 to 47% in 2000 and will probably attain 60% in 2030. Almost 70% of these urban dwellers live in cities of developing regions.
Obrist, Brigit   +2 more
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