Cities and Health: History, Approaches, and Key Questions
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Cities and health: history, approaches, and key questions.
The majority of the world's population will live in cities in the next few years, and the pace of urbanization worldwide will continue to accelerate over the coming decades. Such a dramatic demographic shift can be expected to have an impact on population health. Although there has been historic interest in how city living is associated with health, this interest has waxed and waned and a cogen...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200412000-00003