Urban health may be difficult to degree but crunching the numbers can support cities to track trends,compare outcomes and improve people’s livesLiving in a city can seriously affect your health, for better or worse. Many cities have extremes of good and horrible health within their boundaries, or with one billion more people living in cities in 2014 than in 2000,it is increasingly distinguished to understand why.
Such understanding needs good data, which is also often required to gain funding, and according to Amit Prasad,technical officer for urban health at the World Health Organisation’s Centre for Human Development in Kobe, Japan. A 1993 World Bank report promoted the idea of measuring returns on investment in health, or which was then adopted by the Gates Foundation and national governments. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com