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Health and Wellbeing Peak Urban

WEBOur projects in this theme incorporate interdisciplinary approaches such as exploratory data analysis and novel data visualization techniques; machine learning such as clustering …

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Andy Hong Peak Urban

WEBAndy Hong is a Lead Urban Health Scientist at the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health. He is also Co-founder of the Healthy Cities Network, a global …

Category:  Health Go Health

Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city

WEBBook. Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city examines how urban health and wellbeing are shaped by migration, mobility, racism, sanitation and gender. …

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Themes Peak Urban

WEBThe healthy city is a key theme in the achievement of the SDGs, particularly because of its crossing-cutting nature, and the importance of working beyond the health sector and …

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Is biodiversity of greenspace important for human health and …

WEBGlobal urbanisation has consequences for human health and relationships with the natural environment. While urban greenspaces are theorised to support health …

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Health and sexuality in Cape Town Peak Urban

WEBTHE CHALLENGE Globally, in 2015, ‘Key Populations’ (KPs) accounted for 44% of all new HIV infections. In the global South, Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) …

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Gautam Bhan Peak Urban

WEBGautam Bhan is faculty at IIHS and teaches, researches and writes on the politics of urban poverty and inequality, urban and planning theory, housing, and identity and social …

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Amy Weimann Peak Urban

WEBAmy Weimann is a Junior Research Fellow affiliated with the African Centre for Cities, and a Public Health PhD candidate at the School of Public Health & Family Medicine at the …

Category:  Medicine Go Health

Safeguarding human health during urbanisation: The vital role …

WEBSafeguarding human health during urbanisation: The vital role for policies regulating air and noise pollution in developing countries Research by: Samuel Cai Centre for …

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Samuel Yutong Cai Peak Urban

WEBSamuel is an environmental epidemiologist at the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health at the University of Oxford. His research interests …

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Designing walkable cities and neighborhoods in the era of urban …

WEBThe third part of this paper looks at the emerging themes for designing walkable cities and neighborhoods. We discuss the application of urban big data …

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Green space and the built environment: Optimising health …

WEBGreen space and the built environment - 3 PEAK Urban Policy briefing Addressing the knowledge gap: urban . layout and health in the global South . Rapid, unplanned …

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Health through human settlements: Investigating policymakers

WEBInformal settlements, characterised by inadequate living conditions and high disease burdens, continue to grow in response to rapid urban development in the Global …

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The Shifting Interface of Public Health and Urban Policy in South

WEBThis paper traces the evolution and periodization of shifting ideas about the critical issues shaping city planning in South Africa, looking both at the relative and …

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THE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS DIALOGUE / On Urbanization and …

WEBMore than 100 authors from all continents contributed to INTERSECTING.In over 50 contributions they are calling to team up and create the infrastructure of a new …

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Three Growth Spurts in Global Physical Activity Policies between …

WEBNon-communicable diseases (NCDs) contribute significantly to global mortality and are of particular concern in growing urban populations of low- and-middle income countries …

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Deep learning for electronic health records: A comparative review …

WEBDespite the recent developments in deep learning models, their applications in clinical decision-support systems have been very limited. Recent digitalisation of …

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Neighbourhood green space and health disparities in the global …

WEBHighlights. Green space is positively associated with self-rated health in Cali, Colombia. Physical activity may be an underlying mechanism linking green space …

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From Quantity to Quality: Supporting China’s Urban Transition

WEBFrom Quantity to Quality: Supporting China’s Urban Transition - 3 As cities take on an unprecedented and newly recognised role as drivers of sustainable development, findings

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