Innovating for Healthy Urbanization
This powerful resource identifies wide-scale health challenges facing a rapidly urbanizing planet--including key concerns in nutrition, health status, health care, and safety--and strategies toward possible solutions. Theoretical and empirical analysis fo
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ovating for Healthy Urbanization
Innovating for Healthy Urbanization
Roy Ahn • Thomas F. Burke • Anita M. McGahan Editors
Innovating for Healthy Urbanization
Editors Roy Ahn Department of Emergency Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA, USA
Thomas F. Burke Department of Emergency Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA, USA
Anita M. McGahan Rotman School of Management University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada
ISBN 978-1-4899-7596-6 ISBN 978-1-4899-7597-3 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-7597-3
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Foreword
Urbanization is essentially the physical growth of urban areas as a result of rural migration. The United Nations projected that half of the world’s population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008 (International Herald Tribune, Associated Press, February 26, 2008). By 2050, it is predicted that 64.1 % and 85.9 % of the developing and developed world, respectively, will be urbanized (“Urban life: Open-air computers,” The Economist, October 27, 2012, Retrieved March 20, 2013). Urbanization has serious implications for health and calls for innovations in global health professional education. Several health challenges needing urgent attention come to mind. The issue of human trafficking and its implications for urban environments is an emerging problem. With the decline in breastfeeding globally and a shift to fast foods as well as abandonment of traditional feeding practices, childhood malnutrition is bound to rise in urban areas. The need for innovations to address childhood malnutrition in urban environments as well as newborn, childhood, and maternal health in urban resource-limited settings cannot be overemphasized. Unscrupulous dealers an
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