Harnessing urbanisation for human wellbeing and planetary health

Urbanisation and health in China.

China has seen the largest human migration in history, and the country's rapid urbanisation has important consequences for public health. A provincial analysis of its urbanisation trends shows shifting and accelerating rural-to-urban migration across the country and accompanying rapid increases in city size and population. The growing disease burden in urban areas attributable to nutrition and ...

Work, Health and Wellbeing

Received: October 5, 2012 Accepted: October 9, 2012 Available online: November 30, 2012 Correspondence to: Dame Carol BLACK Health Improvement & Protection Directorate, Department of Health 704 Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8UG, UK E-mail: [email protected] During the past decade we have become more aware of important relationships between health and work. There is ...

Smart Health and Wellbeing

which estimated that preventable medical errors lead to as many as 98,000 deaths per year in the US.2 Gerard Anderson and Patricia Markovich also reported that the US spends $1.7 trillion annually (16 percent of GDP) on healthcare, yet produces signi! cantly lower health outcomes than many other developed countries.3 Many new government initiatives to improve this situation have been started re...

Health, wellbeing and progress.

Is it enough to say that, because we are growing richer and living longer, life is getting better? Wealth and health are the main indicators by which we judge progress, and by these measures Australia, and most of the rest of the world, are making good progress. So is all well and good? Not exactly. There is growing evidence that standard of living is not the same as quality of life, and that h...

Mental Health and Wellbeing