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Our cities, our health, our future: |
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acting on social determinants for health equity in urban settings |
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World health organization (WHO) |
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2008 |
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180p. |
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report to the WHO commission on social determinants of health from the knowledge network on urban settings |
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1. INTRODUCTION<br/>2. URBANIZATION AND THE URBAN SETTING AS HEALTH DETERMINANTS<br/>2.1 Urbanization in a global context<br/>2.2 Slum formation with rapid urbanization<br/>2.3 A conceptual framework for urban health<br/>2.4 The economics of urban health development<br/>2.5 Poverty, deprived urban living conditions and health vulnerability<br/>2.6 Healthy urban governance<br/>3. THE URBAN HEALTH SITUATION<br/>3.1 Burden of disease and communicable diseases<br/>3.2 Injuries and violence<br/>3.3 Mental health and substance abuse<br/>3.4 Noncommunicable diseases and nutritional disorders<br/>4. KEY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN ACHIEVING HEALTH EQUITY<br/>4.1 Environmental health threats in the home and neighbourhood<br/>4.2 Environmental health threats in the wider urban area<br/>4.3 Health threats at work<br/>4.4 Urban health impacts of global resource depletion and environmental change<br/>4.5 Health care systems and emergency services<br/>4.6 Gender and women's health equity issues 4.7 Other vulnerable groups.<br/>5. A BROAD SPECTRUM OF INTERVENTIONS<br/>5.1 Building trust, social capital and social cohesion<br/>5.2 A range of specific interventions<br/>5.3 Interventions through primary health care<br/>5.4 Conditional cash transfers: global social welfare support<br/>5.5 Healthy Settings and Healthy Cities approaches to interventions<br/>5.6 Urban development planning and investment to avoid new slum formation<br/>5.7 Good governance bringing together all interventions<br/>6. APPROACHES AND POLICIES TO MAKE INTERVENTIONS HAPPEN<br/>6.1 Toward an Integrated approach to reducing health inequity<br/>6.2 Health, a rallying point for achieving improved life quality<br/>6.3 Microfinance and local investment<br/>6.4 The global investments required for health equity 6.5 A fairer distribution of resources for health<br/>7. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 7.1 The urban setting as a health determinant<br/>7.2 The urban health situation<br/>7.3 Key issues and concepts of health equity impacts<br/>7.4 A broad spectrum of interventions 7.5 Approaches and policies to make interventions happen<br/>ENDNOTES<br/>BIBLIOGRAPHY<br/>LIST OF TABLES<br/>Main Report<br/>1 Infant and under-five mortality rates in Nairobi, Kenya, Sweden and Japan<br/>2 Five steps in developing interventions for health equity in urban settings<br/>3 Proportion of people without adequate provision for water and<br/>sanitation in urban areas, 2000<br/>4 Major risk factors of unhealthy living conditions<br/>5 Estimated annual additional cost (above current foreign aid) of implementing the MDGs by 2015<br/>Endnotes<br/>A1 Population living in slums, 2001 estimates<br/>A2 Infant mortality for the years 1950 and 2000 in Chile, rural versus urban<br/>A3 Deprivations associated with urban poverty and<br/>their immediate external causes.<br/>A4 Ten leading causes of burden of disease, by region, 2001<br/>A5 Infant and child mortality rates for urban and<br/>rural populations in selected countries<br/>A6 Homicide rates per 100 000 population in cities of Latin America<br/>LIST OF FIGURES<br/>Main Report<br/>1 Urban slum incidence in countries, 2001<br/>2 Under-5 mortality rates in Africa<br/>3 Percentage of urban population living in slums, 2001<br/>4 Annual growth rate of urban people living in slums, 1990-2001<br/>5 A conceptual framework for urban health<br/>6 Association between nations' level of urbanization and average per capita income, 2000/2001<br/>7 HIV prevalence (%) by urban/rural residence for selected sub-Saharan African countries<br/>8 Proportion of urban poor and rich using solid fuels in the household, 2003<br/>Endnotes<br/>A1 Relationship between national GDP/capita and life expectancy in all countries<br/>A2 Relationship between GDP/capita and life expectancy in six countries, linear scales<br/>A3 Deprivations associated with urban poverty and their immediate external causes<br/>LIST OF BOXES<br/>Main Report<br/>1 The development of housing in Singapore<br/>2 Urbanization makes infant health intervention easier in Chile<br/>3 Decentralization and the health system in China<br/>4 Slum upgrading in Thailand<br/>5 Example of an urban cash transfer programme in Mozambique<br/>6 Supporting grassroots-driven improvements: the International Urban Poor Fund |
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Health determinants |
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Urbanization - Urban setting |
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Social determinants - health equity in urban settings |
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World health organization (WHO) |
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Reports |
