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Urban health - World Health Organization (WHO)

(7 days ago) WEBUrbanization is one of the leading global trends of the 21st century that has a significant impact on health. Over 55% of the world’s population live in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. As most future urban growth will …

https://www.who.int/health-topics/urban-health/

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Global report on urban health: equitable healthier cities for

(2 days ago) WEBLess than a decade ago a majority of humankind still lived in the countryside, yet today a clear majority live in urban areas. By the deadline of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2030, 60% of all people will reside in cities, proportionally twice that of 1950. For most of us from now on, life and death will be an …

https://www.who.int/publications-detail-redirect/9789241565271

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How does urbanization affect public health? New evidence from …

(3 days ago) WEBTable 3 reports the OLS regression results of the impact of urbanization rate on public health. The empirical results in column (1) indicate that the urbanization rate has a strong negative effect on the crude death rate. More specifically, 1% increase in the urbanization rate reduces the crude death rate by 0.06%.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9852986/

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World Health Organization - Urban Health Repository

(9 days ago) WEBAbout this repository. Over 55% of the world’s population live in urban areas – a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. This trend calls for strengthened support to address health at the urban level. To this end, WHO’s new repository on urban health gives access to a broad range of WHO-generated resources to enhance

https://urbanhealth-repository.who.int/

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Urbanization and health - World Health Organization

(Just Now) WEBUrbanization and health The world is rapidly urbanizing with sig-nificant changes in our living standards, lifestyles, social behaviour and health,” says Dr Jacob Kumaresan, director of the World Health Organization’s Centre for Health Development based in Kobe, Japan. “While urban living continues to offer many opportunities, including

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/270661/PMC2855604.pdf

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Global report on urban health: equitable healthier cities for

(5 days ago) WEBWorld Health Organization & UN-Habitat. (‎2016)‎. Global report on urban health: equitable healthier cities for sustainable development. World Health Organization.

https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/204715

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Our cities, our health, our future - World Health Organization

(Just Now) WEBThe key to improved health equity lies in optimizing urban settings for health. Urbanization can be a positive determinant of health in the appropriate circumstances. Social systems based on democracy and strong equity policies have been successful in creating more equitable urban areas in a number of countries. The KNUS

https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/documents/social-determinants-of-health/urban-settings-knowledge-network-final-report-2007.pdf

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Urban green spaces and health - World Health Organization

(5 days ago) WEBModern urban life style is associated with chronic stress, insufficient physical activity and exposure to anthropogenic environmental hazards. Urban green spaces, such as parks, playgrounds, and residential greenery, can promote mental and physical health, and reduce morbidity and mortality in urban residents by providing psychological

https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/345751

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Urbanization and health in developing countries: a systematic review

(1 days ago) WEBThe studies had to examine selected World Health Organization health indicators. Results: Eleven studies of the association between urbanization and the selected health indicators in developing countries met our selection criteria. Urbanization was associated with a lower risk of undernutrition but a higher risk of overweight in children.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24702762/

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2018 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects United Nations

(9 days ago) WEB2018 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects. Today, 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. Projections show that

https://www.un.org/en/desa/2018-revision-world-urbanization-prospects

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Urban Health Initiative - World Health Organization (WHO)

(5 days ago) WEBA model process for integrating health into policy-making. 1. Map stakeholders and policies impacting urban environments. Map existing policies and plans with impacts on health e.g. air pollution, land-use, transport and waste management. Identify expected health impacts and gaps in ability to collect comprehensive data that support policy

https://www.who.int/initiatives/urban-health-initiative

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Urbanization, Health and Well-Being: A Global Perspective

(6 days ago) WEBUrbanization, health and well-being: a global perspective. G. GOLDSTEIN. Division of Environmental Health, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland. Introduction. Urbanization's physical and social impacts on health and disease are known. Although causal relationships are not fully established, poor health is associated with poverty

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2348533

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Urbanization - Our World in Data

(9 days ago) WEBThe UN World Urbanization Prospects (2018) database provides a downloadable list of underlying data sources and the statistical concepts used to define 'urban' by country. 5. In the chart, we have mapped the minimum threshold level of the number of inhabitants in a settlement needed for it to be classified as an 'urban area'. The data shown for

https://ourworldindata.org/urbanization

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Global Report on Urban Health; Equitable, Healthier Cities for

(6 days ago) WEBThis timely report comes at a decisive moment in history where we can reshape urban environments and health systems for the majority of the world’s population that live in cities. Enabling this transformation are the SDGs, which have reconfigured how governments and the international community need to plan and implement actions to …

https://unhabitat.org/global-report-on-urban-health-equitable-healthier-cities-for-sustainable-development

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Human health: is it who you are or where you live? - The Lancet

(3 days ago) WEBUrbanisation is one of the leading global trends of the 21st century and the UN predicts that seven in ten people will live in urban areas by 2050.1 With hasty global urbanisation, the importance of understanding relationships between environment, human health, and wellbeing is being increasingly recognised. Urban advance offers many opportunities, …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(17)30123-7/fulltext

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UNMASKING AND OVERCOMING HEALTH INEQUITIES IN …

(1 days ago) WEB1.Urban health - trends. 2.City planning. 3.Urbanization. 4.Life style. I.World Health Organization. II.United Nations.Human Settlements Programme. ISBN 978 92 4 154803 8 (WHO) (NLM classification: WA 380) ISBN 978 92 1 132271 2 (UN-HABITAT) World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland (fax: +41 22

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44439/9789241548038_eng.pdf?sequence=1%26isAllowed=y

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The urban environment and health in a world of increasing …

(1 days ago) WEBBull World Health Organ. 2000;78(9):1117-26. Author A J McMichael 1 disease and respiratory infections in the urban poor and the adaptation of various vector-borne infections to urbanization, the urban environment poses various physicochemical hazards. These include exposure to lead, air pollution, traffic hazards, and the "urban heat

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11019460/

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Environment, Climate Change and Health - World Health …

(5 days ago) WEBThe world today has a unique opportunity to guide urbanization and other major urban development trends in a way that protects and promotes the health of the population. Health is essential for fostering good urban livelihoods, building a productive workforce, creating resilient and vibrant communities, enabling mobility, promoting social

https://www.who.int/teams/environment-climate-change-and-health/healthy-urban-environments/urban-planning

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COVID-19 eliminated a decade of progress in global level of life

(4 days ago) WEB24 May 2024 Health. Data crunched by the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that the COVID-19 emergency reversed more than a decade of gains in life expectancy, reinforcing the need for countries to agree on a global pandemic treaty to protect future generations. According to the UN agency, between 2019 and 2021 – the …

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/05/1150186

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Imagine a Sustainable Solution to Plastic: Clean Cities, Blue Ocean

(3 days ago) WEBRapid urbanization is today’s defining development trend. When USAID was founded in 1961, roughly 34 percent of the world’s population lived in urban areas. By 2030, that figure will rise to over 60 percent as cities and towns become home to more than 1.4 billion additional people.

https://www.usaid.gov/urban/save-our-seas/2024-ccbo-sustainable-solution-to-plastic

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Urbanization and health: health equity Case studies from the

(8 days ago) WEBWorld Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, P.O. Box 7608, Nasr City, Cairo 11371, Egypt. The chosen theme of World Health Day 2010 was urbanization and health, in recognition of the impact that urbanization has on individuals, communities and cities. The objective of this

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/119914/dsa1083.pdf?sequence=1

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China is accelerating the forced urbanization of rural Tibetans, …

(2 days ago) WEBUpdated 5:34 PM PDT, May 21, 2024. TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China is accelerating the forced urbanization of Tibetan villagers and herders, Human Rights Watch said, in an extensive report that adds to state government and independent reports of efforts to assimilate rural Tibetans through control over their language and traditional Buddhist …

https://apnews.com/article/china-tibet-relocation-a0b07de64a948db06f9bc9e5ff4ce215

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Urban planning crucial for better public health in cities

(Just Now) WEB“Investments in health-based urban and territorial planning secure long-term health and wellbeing legacies for a growing proportion of humans,” said Dr Nathalie Roebbel, WHO Unit Head, Air Quality and Health. Over half the world’s population now lives in cities, and by 2050 that is expected to rise to a full 70 per cent of the human

https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/urban-planning-crucial-for-better-public-health-in-cities

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Building a Period Friendly World–One Toilet at a Time - World …

(6 days ago) WEBAbout 39% of schools in Ethiopia are still without sanitation facilities and 76% without access to an improved water supply. The World Bank is evolving its focus on the design of projects, primarily the infrastructure needed to aid menstrual health and hygiene, to include the integration and institutionalization of learning in school curriculums and …

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2024/05/28/building-a-period-friendly-world-one-toilet-at-a-time

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The World Health Organization

(8 days ago) WEBurbanization, globalization of unhealthy lifestyles and population ageing, these diseases now account for 70% of all deaths. So WHO has shifted focus, along with health authorities around the world, to promote healthy eating, physical exercise and regular health checks. The Organization has run global health campaigns on

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/272468/WHO-DCO-2018.1-eng.pdf

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Africa Day 2024: Championing access to affordable housing for a …

(2 days ago) WEBChampioning policy reform to bridge Africa’s housing gap. Indeed, the world faces a significant housing deficit, with an estimated 1.6 billion people lacking adequate housing according to UN Habitat. In Africa alone, the housing deficit affects over 50 million people according to 2020 research by the African Development Bank, reflecting the urgent need …

https://www.habitat.org/emea/stories/africa-day-2024-championing-access-affordable-housing-more-equitable-future-education

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World Health Organization (WHO)

(Just Now) WEBWHO Chemical Risk Assessment Network Webinar: The Triple Planetary Crisis: Role of Science and Health Sector Engagement. 6 June 2024 15:00 – 16:30 CET.

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