Indicators linking health and sustainability in the post-2015 development agenda

Dora, Carlos; Haines, Andy; Balbus, John; Fletcher, Elaine; Adair-Rohani, Heather; Alabaster, Graham; Hossain, Rakib; Onís, Mercedes de; Branca, Francesco; Neira, María

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(14)60605-x

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“…In 2009, a series of papers published by The Lancet suggested that actions to reduce GHG emissions often, although not always, entail net benefits for health locally ). This year, the same journal reported that tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century (Dora et al, 2015;Watts et al, 2015). Because lower income populations are more vulnerable to climate change impacts on all scales, not only in comparing nations, but also within the same city, tackling climate change is an opportunity to reduce health inequalities.…”

Section: Urban Planning and Health: A Historical Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Women and small children are the most vulnerable because they spend the most time in or near the kitchen. The lack of access to clean energy sources can also result in other health risks, such as burns, injuries, intoxication, and violence against women while they collect fuel (Dora et al, 2015).…”

Section: Thermal Comfort and Indoor Air Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Malnutrition, vector-born disease (e.g., dengue fever), neglected tropical diseases (e.g., schistosomiasis), and non-communicable disease risks related to chemical contaminants are recognized health outcomes (Freeman et al, 2013;Bartram et al, 2005). Poor people are at greater risk because their access to improved water sources and sanitation is restricted (Dora et al, 2015) In LA and the Caribbean, the access to safe drinking water reached 94% of the population in 2012. The lowest levels of coverage were found in the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Peru, ranging from 76% to 90% (WHO/UNICEF, 2014).…”

Section: Sanitation and Wastewater Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Flushing/pouring to outside, pit latrines without slabs, buckets, hanging toilets or hanging latrine, and a lack of facilities or bushes or fields are classified as unimproved sanitation facilities (WHO/UNICEF, 2015). However, many unimproved systems might be misclassified, (Rydin et al, 2012) and improved drinking water sources might still contain substantial bacterial and chemical contamination (Dora et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In addition, climate change is expected to increase the risk of water shortages in urban areas (Dora et al, 2015), threatening the achievements of water and sanitation facilities. In 2015, the water sources of the city of Sao Paulo decreased drastically, impairing the water supply.…”

Section: Sanitation and Wastewater Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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This special issue of URBE dedicated to Ecological Urbanism focuses on the role architects, landscape designers and urban planners can play in promoting healthier cities in Latin America. In this paper, we survey some of the empirical evidence that links the built environment with particular health outcomes. For many centuries, urban settlements were associated with adverse health outcomes, especially related to untreatable epidemics. As the science of disease transmission developed throughout the nineteenth century, the infrastructure of cities was transformed to promote improved public health. Significant gains were made, but in much of the world -Latin America included -urban health still remains a major challenge, all the more so as drug resistant strains of disease have become more prevalent. We believe Ecological Urbanism offers a promising framework for addressing these challenges. Distinguished by its integrated, multi-disciplinary foundation, Ecological Urbanism directly links both population and habitat health. This creates a natural opportunity for the design professions to play a more consequential role in shaping the health of urban settlements and, by extension, the regions they center.

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Salminen et al because little clinical information was available to provide a better estimate for it.Future studies should be carefully designed with a strong justification for the minimal clinically important difference. Antibiotics with broad enough coverage to treat appendicitis may cause the development of resistant organisms or Clostridium difficile infections. Given the balance between potential complications of antibiotic treatment or appendectomy for appendicitis, is 10% of patients with appendicitis not experiencing successful treatment with antibiotics clinically important? 30%? 50%? Investigators will need to determine and fully justify how much worse than appendectomy antibiotic treatment of appendicitis must be before the notion of replacing appendectomy with antibiotic treatment is rejected.Because appendectomy is performed to prevent major pelvic infection, the strongest design would be one showing that antibiotics could prevent pelvic abscesses as effectively as surgery. However, because pelvic abscess is infrequent, a trial using this outcome would need to enroll a very large number of patients.The time has come to consider abandoning routine appendectomy for patients with uncomplicated appendicitis. The operation served patients well for more than 100 years. With development of more precise diagnostic capabilities like CT and effective broad-spectrum antibiotics, appendectomy may be unnecessary for uncomplicated appendicitis, which now occurs in the majority of acute appendicitis cases.

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Governing the Interlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals: Approaches to Attain Policy Integration

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of 2015 form a universal and integrated policy agenda to be realized over the next 15 years. One of the targets is the attainment of policy coherence for sustainable development, which requires the individual goals to become interlinked. This article's main research interest lies in assessing how national governments and their competent ministries interpret and strive to implement the target of policy coherence for sustainable development. Drawing on the Voluntary National Reviews submitted in 2016 and 2017 by six countries, this study shows that at the national level, the links among the different goals and the idea of policy integration are subject to divergent interpretations. The differences observed do not stem from the interlinkages of the SDGs as defined by the United Nations, neither do they result from different levels of income or degree of political centralization. Instead, the respective domestic policy‐making processes are likely to explain the implementation strategies adopted by the individual states. For example, the implementation approach adopted by the government of Turkey suggests that path‐dependency is critical, whereas the Colombian approach consists of defining new policy measures and institutional arrangements.

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Indicators linking health and sustainability in the post-2015 development agenda

Cited by 126 publications

References 33 publications

How can ecological urbanism promote human health?

How can ecological urbanism promote human health?

Development Assistance for Health

Governing the Interlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals: Approaches to Attain Policy Integration

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