URBANHHEALTH

As the world becomes increasingly urbanized, more than ever before, more and more people are now living in cities and these numbers appear to be on the rise. Cities bring both opportunities and challenges for the health of the people who live in them. Urban areas have resources and provide opportunities to help us understand how places affect health. Because of the population density of urban areas and other factors, it can be easier to apply what we learn about health to promote actions to protect the health of more people living in urban communities. A key way to understand and to improve urban health is through both local and global engagement... Urbanization is one of the leading trends of our current and the past century. It has had positive and negative impacts on the health of people in our urban areas. It is expected that by 2050, over 68% of the world's populations will live in cities. While urban is typically used in reference to cities and city life, when discussing urban..