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Urban Health: Themes
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| | What are the major themes? |  | Urban Health means putting the needs of people and communities at the heart of the urban planning process to ensure better accessto urbanservices which improve human health for all. Except in a few instances, urban health problems are not markedly different from those in rural areas, but their solutions are quite different. The key difference revolves in accommodating the higher density of people spread over large areas. Thus, urban health goes well beyond improved access to health services. | | |
| | Major Themes: | | Environmental Health
sub-themes may include: Slum Upgrading, Solid Waste, Road Safety and Indoor Air Quality Water Sanitation & Hygiene
sub-themes may include: Access to Water, Handwashing Urban Transport
sub-themes may include: AIDS Prevention, Road Safety, Nutrition - Urban Solid Waste Management
sub-themes may include: Threat of Avian Flu, New and Re-emerging Diseases, Slaughterhouses, Occupational Health Housing
sub-themes may include: Indoor Air Pollution, Living Conditions, Household Accidents Impact of Climate Change & Global Warming
sub-themes may include: New and Re-emerging Diseases, Disaster Management Urban Crime & Violence
sub-themes may include: Domestic Violence, Mental Health (i.e., depression, etc.) HIV/AIDS in Urban Areas
sub-themes may include: Local Government Responses to HIV/AIDS, Transport and HIV/AIDS Providing Health Services in Urban Areas
sub-themes may include: Health System Delivery (Local government/Decentralization), Community Health in Urban Areas Vulnerable Urban Populations
sub-themes may include: Orphans and Vulnerable Children, Unemployed Youth, Elderly Poor, Migrants, Disabled Persons, Pavement Dwellers - Planning & Monitoring for Health Outcomes
sub-themes may include: Health Impact Assessment tools, Urban and Health databases, Urban Planning tools
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