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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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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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Evaluation of a school-based health education program for urban Indigenous young people in Australia [PDF]
, 2014 : The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a school-based health promotion and education program in improving knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy and behaviours of urban Indigenous young people regarding chronic disease and ...
Ware, Robert S. +7 more
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A Case Study of Urban Design, Wellbeing and Mental Health in Lapua, Finland
, 2023 : According to the United Nations ' Sustainable development goals (SDGs) ranking list, Finland is one of the most sustainable countries. At first glance, Lapua: a town in the Southern Ostrobothnia region of western Finland, seems to be safe and ...
Akindejoye, Funmi, Teräväinen, Helena
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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 +3 more
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Journal of Urban Health, 1998 New York's public health priorities initiative, Communities Working Together for a Healthier New York, creates a framework for communities, including urban areas, to identify and address their most pressing public health problems. It is both a call to action and a guide for the state's communities.
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Urban Health Multidisciplinary Actions Promoting Health in an Urban Environment [PDF]
, 2020 The crisis faced by the Western lifestyle model when dealing with problems associated with climate change and the new roles that cities and buildings must play in a world of globalisation fosters the rise of a new approach that marks a necessary turning point for our civilisation.
Battisti A., Marceca M.
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Examining Equitable Access to Health Resources, Support Staff and Technology Across HISD
, 2023 This series of briefs examined whether students across different Houston Independent School District campuses had equitable access to health resources, support staff and ...
Kinder Institute for Urban Research
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Urban health research in Africa : themes and priority research questions [PDF]
, 2016 See erratum to article at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11524-016-0064-7The urban growth of cities across Africa has drastically increased the number of people living in informal or under served conditions.
Matzopoulos, Richard +4 more
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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 +11 more
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