population growth in urban areas is a world-wide phenomenon, particularly in developing countries, urbanization has been rapid in the past two decades, and such rapid urbanization is expected to continue in the coming years. while urbanization has provided opportunities for employment, education and socio-economic development, it has also brought about a number of adverse health problems. these...

Several urban features, while not unique to Latin America, characterize the specific health challenges facing cities in this region, including the growth of midsize cities and, especially, the growth of periurban spontaneous settlements where sanitation, education, employment, health services, and links to the formal urban economy are often precarious. Health issues in cities include infectious...

The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) is an independent organization advancing the health of the people in cities since 1847. NYAM addresses the health challenges facing the world's urban population through interdisciplinary approaches to policy leadership, innovative research, education, training and community engagement. Our current urban health agenda includes creating environments in citi...

OBJECTIVES The World Health Organization's Regional Office for Europe has undertaken a large study to evaluate housing and health in 7 European cities. METHODS Survey tools were used to obtain information about housing and living conditions, health perception, and health status from a representative sample of the population in each city. RESULTS In Forli, Italy, the first city studied, prel...

The development of new partnership structures for public health is an important goal of the World Health Organization's Healthy Cities project which covers a network of European municipalities. A review was carried out of the partnership structures and key changes arising from the project, based on the responses of 44 cities to a structured questionnaire, interviews with 24 city representatives...

Study of quali-quantitative character that had as its main objective, to map out the physiotherapist insertion in the Family Health Program (PSF) of the cities that compose a Regional Coordination of Health (CRS) in Rio Grande do Sul State. For this, after the identification of the cities that compose the referred coordination and professional physiotherapists working in these cities, it was se...

The European Healthy Cities project can be characterized as a social movement that employs an extremely wide range of political, social and behavioural interventions for the development and sustenance of urban population health. At all of these levels, the movement is inspired by ideological, theoretical and evidence-based perspectives. The result of this stance is a dynamic, complex and divers...

With the rapid rate of urbanisation in developing countries across Asia and Africa, about 70% of the world’s population is expected to be living in cities by 2050. In their density and complexity, cities often drive national economies, provide a rich array of specialised services, ideas and innovation, with diverse social and cultural populations. However, with an estimated one billion people l...

Perspectives Tudor Hart's inverse care law, set out in an article in The Lancet in 1971, states that the availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need of the population served. 1 Referring to the national health service (NHS) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the author argued that the state must play a role in ensuring the health and well-be...