2005
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-311x2005000300031
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Abstract: The majority of the world's population will live in cities in the next few years and the pace of urbanization worldwide will continue to accelerate over the coming decades. While the number of megacities is projected to increase, the largest population growth is expected to be in cities of less than one million people. Such a dramatic demographic shift can be expected to have an impact on population health. Although there has been historic interest in how city living affects health, a cogent framework that ena… Show more

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“…A conceptual framework linking residential context to obesity, including a plausible causal pathway, was suggested by Stafford et al (2007) (discussed below). Social and physical environments that define the residential context (physical, social, economic, and political) are shaped by multiple factors and multiple players (national and local government, private sector, civil society) at multiple levels (global and local) (Vlahov, Galea, Gibbe, & Freudenberg, 2005).…”
Section: A Web Of Interlinking Determinantsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A conceptual framework linking residential context to obesity, including a plausible causal pathway, was suggested by Stafford et al (2007) (discussed below). Social and physical environments that define the residential context (physical, social, economic, and political) are shaped by multiple factors and multiple players (national and local government, private sector, civil society) at multiple levels (global and local) (Vlahov, Galea, Gibbe, & Freudenberg, 2005).…”
Section: A Web Of Interlinking Determinantsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The majority of the world's population will soon reside in urban areas (1,2). Empiric evidence has long suggested that certain characteristics of the urban environment may influence population mental health (3,4).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Por essa razão porta melhor capacidade explicativa de situações sociais históricas, não sendo infl uenciada por mudanças conjunturais. Nessa direção, autores contemporâneos sinalizam o seu caráter marcador de outras condições sociais, entre elas menciona-se a taxa de mortalidade infantil (Friche et al, 2006;Vlahov, 2005).…”
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