Why investigate urban health indicators?

Why We Need Urban Health Equity Indicators: Integrating Science, Policy, and Community

As the world urbanizes, global health challenges are increasingly concentrated in cities. Currently, over 80% of the population in Latin America already lives in cities. The African urban population is projected to double in the next decade and China has urbanized in thirty years at a rate it took Europe and North America a century [1]. Rapidly growing new cities and increasingly segregated old...

Urban health indicators and indices—current status

Though numbers alone may be insufficient to capture the nuances of population health, they provide a common language of appraisal and furnish clear evidence of disparities and inequalities. Over the past 30 years, facilitated by high speed computing and electronics, considerable investment has been made in the collection and analysis of urban health indicators, environmental indicators, and met...

Why Investigate Metacognition ?

Why should researchers of cognition investigate metacognition? This chapter constitutes one answer to that question. Metacognition is simultaneously a topic of interest in its own right and a bridge between areas, e.g., between decisiorl making and Inemory, between learning and motivation, and between learning and cognitive development. Although the focus of this chapter is on the metacognitive...

Why performance indicators have a place in health policy.

Despite the mixed results of Brown and colleagues' review of the evidence for the use of performance indicators in health policy, this paper argues that they have an important place. Healthcare organizations cannot rely on altruism alone to motivate improved performance. Berwick, supporting the use of performance indicators in healthcare, argues "threats to survival are necessary to build will ...

Orchids as Indicators of Ecosystem Health in Urban Bushland Fragments