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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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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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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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Health Implications of Diverse Visions of Urban Spaces: Bridging the Formal-Informal Divide

Frontiers in Public Health, 2019
In the past 200 years, urban spaces have been imagined as neatly laid out, well-planned, sanitised and civilised places of dense human habitation with regulated economic activity, where political power, financial capital, the frontiers of knowledge and ...
Ritu Priya, Ritu Priya, Ranvir Singh, Ranvir Singh, Sayan Das   +4 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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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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Challenging urban health: towards an improved local government response to migration, informal settlements, and HIV in Johannesburg, South Africa

Global Health Action, 2011
This article is a review of the PhD thesis undertaken by Joanna Vearey that explores local government responses to the urban health challenges of migration, informal settlements, and HIV in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Joanna Vearey
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Eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases in Urban Areas: A Review of Challenges, Strategies and Research Directions for Successful Mass Drug Administration

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2018
Since 1950, the global urban population grew from 746 million to almost 4 billion and is expected to reach 6.4 billion by mid-century. Almost 90% of this increase will take place in Asia and Africa and disproportionately in urban slums.
Alayne M. Adams, Myriam Vuckovic, Eleanor Birch, Tara A. Brant, Stephanie Bialek, Dahye Yoon, Joseph Koroma, Abdel Direny, Joseph Shott, Jean Frantz Lemoine, Massitan Dembele, Margaret C. Baker   +11 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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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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