European Healthy City Network Phase V: patterns emerging for healthy urban planning
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European Healthy City Network Phase V: patterns emerging for healthy urban planning.
There is a tradition of planning cities and their infrastructure to successfully tackle communicable disease arising from urban development. Non-communicable disease follows a different course. Development brings in its wake a basket of adverse health and health equity outcomes that are proving difficult to tackle. In response, within Phase V of the European Healthy Cities Network, municipaliti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Promotion International
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0957-4824,1460-2245
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dav033