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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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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Decomposing the gap in childhood undernutrition between poor and non–poor in urban India, 2005–06 [PDF]
, 2013 Despite the growing evidence from other developing countries, intra-urban inequality in childhood undernutrition is poorly researched in India. Additionally, the factors contributing to the poor/non-poor gap in childhood undernutrition have not been ...
Kumar, A., Singh, Aditya
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Indian Journal of Community and Family Medicine, 2020 Introduction: City health profile is a useful tool for understanding the health gap and to plan to close the health gap. Of the different tools available to draft a city health profile, the Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (HEART ...
M Siva Durga Prasad Nayak, K A Narayan
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Trends in childhood mortality in Kenya: the urban advantage has seemingly been wiped out [PDF]
, 2014 Background: we describe trends in childhood mortality in Kenya, paying attention to the urban–rural and intra-urban differentials.Methods: we use data from the Kenya Demographic and Health Surveys (KDHS) collected between 1993 and 2008 and the Nairobi ...
Abuya, B. +7 more
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Residents' Dissatisfaction and All-Cause Mortality. Evidence from 74 European Cities
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Background: About 2/3 of the Europeans reside in cities. Thus, we must expand our knowledge on how city characteristics affect health and well-being.
Ana I. Ribeiro +3 more
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Multisectoral interventions for urban health in Africa: a mixed-methods systematic review. [PDF]
Glob Health ActionIncreasing evidence suggests that urban health objectives are best achieved through a multisectoral approach. This approach requires multiple sectors to consider health and well-being as a central aspect of their policy development and implementation ...
Thondoo M +18 more
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Deep Learning for Spatiotemporal Modeling of Urbanization [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Urbanization has a strong impact on the health and wellbeing of populations across the world. Predictive spatial modeling of urbanization therefore can be a useful tool for effective public health planning. Many spatial urbanization models have been developed using classic machine learning and numerical modeling techniques.
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Decoding Urban-health Nexus: Interpretable Machine Learning Illuminates Cancer Prevalence based on Intertwined City Features [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 This study investigates the interplay among social demographics, built environment characteristics, and environmental hazard exposure features in determining community level cancer prevalence. Utilizing data from five Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States: Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, and New York, the study implemented an ...
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Epidemiology of Urban Canine Rabies, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 1972–1997
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002 We analyzed laboratory data from 1972 to 1997 from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, to determine risk factors for laboratory canine samples’ testing positive for Rabies virus (RABV).
Marc-Alain Widdowson +3 more
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