Hidden cities: unmasking and overcoming health inequities in urban settings
WHO/UN-HABITAT report – November 2010
Available online PDF [145p.] at: http://bit.ly/cJYptP
“…..The report, Hidden cities: unmasking and overcoming health inequities in urban settings, will enable city leaders and urban planners to identify deprived populations and target measures to improve their health.
“….The report is based on a new analysis that looks beyond city averages or beyond the usual information from cities and towns to identify hidden pockets of ill-health and social deprivation. Past efforts have largely focused on data averages, and on differences between cities. The new approach combines available demographic data with novel analysis to unmask urban averages. These findings allow city leaders and policy makers to look at trends, even within neighbourhoods and understand differences within as well as between cities.
“….Hidden cities highlights the challenges and opportunities urbanization brings and its effect on the well-being of all urbanites. While it is generally understood that city dwellers on average, enjoy better health than their rural counterparts, very little is known about health differences that exist within cities.
The report Hidden Cities reveals the urban health inequities that are the result of the circumstances in which people grow, live, work and age, and the health systems they can access. No city – large or small, rich or poor, east or west, north or south – has been show to be immune to the problem of health inequity.
The future of our urban world has yet to be realized, but brings both a price and a promise. To what extent we will pay the price, as opposed to fulfilling the promise is in our hands…..”
Content: http://bit.ly/bND0io
Part One. The dawn of an urban WORLD
Chapter 1. The rise of modern cities
Chapter 2. Health in an urban context
Chapter 3. Urban health inequity and why it matters
Part Two. Unmasking hidden cities
Chapter 4. Urban health inequities revealed
Chapter 5. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Chapter 6. Urban governance for reducing health inequities
Part Three. Overcoming urban health inequities
Chapter 7. Building an evidence base for action
Chapter 8. Taking action
Conclusion: The price and the promise of our urban world
Annexes
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