Urban Health Inequities and the Added Pressure of Climate Change: An Action-Oriented Research Agenda

Friel, Sharon; Hancock, Trevor; Kjellström, Tord; McGranahan, Gordon; Monge, Patricia; Roy, Joyashree

doi:10.1007/s11524-011-9607-0

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“…GRNUHE's overarching research question asked: "What are the attributes of urban governance, urban daily living conditions (social and physical environments), and climate change that contribute to urban health inequities, particularly in cities of LMICs?" Papers by Smit et al, 1 Barten et al, 5 Friel et al 3,4 and Salgado et al 2 explore each of these issues in more detail. First, this model shows that the physical environment, social conditions, and changing environmental conditions (exemplified by, but not limited to, climate change), all interact to improve or worsen health inequities.…”

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“…We conclude by proposing a way forward for urbanization that is based on principles of health, equity, and environmental sustainability and outline key components of a global research agenda to support such an approach to urban development. Papers by Smit et al, 1 Salgado et al, 2 Friel et al, 3,4 and Barten et al 5 describe in detail the relationship between urban health inequities in LMICs and each of the determinants, and review the evidence relating to action that has been used to address these causes of health inequities.…”

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Addressing the Social and Environmental Determinants of Urban Health Equity: Evidence for Action and a Research Agenda

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Urban living is the new reality for the majority of the world's population. Urban change is taking place in a context of other global challenges--economic globalization, climate change, financial crises, energy and food insecurity, old and emerging armed conflicts, as well as the changing patterns of communicable and noncommunicable diseases. These health and social problems, in countries with different levels of infrastructure and health system preparedness, pose significant development challenges in the 21st century. In all countries, rich and poor, the move to urban living has been both good and bad for population health, and has contributed to the unequal distribution of health both within countries (the urban-rural divide) and within cities (the rich-poor divide). In this series of papers, we demonstrate that urban planning and design and urban social conditions can be good or bad for human health and health equity depending on how they are set up. We argue that climate change mitigation and adaptation need to go hand-in-hand with efforts to achieve health equity through action in the social determinants. And we highlight how different forms of governance can shape agendas, policies, and programs in ways that are inclusive and health-promoting or perpetuate social exclusion, inequitable distribution of resources, and the inequities in health associated with that. While today we can describe many of the features of a healthy and sustainable city, and the governance and planning processes needed to achieve these ends, there is still much to learn, especially with respect to tailoring these concepts and applying them in the cities of lower- and middle-income countries. By outlining an integrated research agenda, we aim to assist researchers, policy makers, service providers, and funding bodies/donors to better support, coordinate, and undertake research that is organized around a conceptual framework that positions health, equity, and sustainability as central policy goals for urban management.

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Addressing the Social and Environmental Determinants of Urban Health Equity: Evidence for Action and a Research Agenda

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“…Some of the studies cited in the context of climate analyzed data differentiating among socioeconomic groups in urban contexts (Deschênes and Greenstone, 2011;Barreca, 2009). These results are expected to be more nuanced in cities in low and middle-income countries (Friel et al, 2011;WHO, 2010).…”

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“…Urbanization can either create the conditions for epidemic outbreaks to thrive or halt their appearance, conditional on the quality of basic services and other types of basic and public health infrastructure (Friel et al, 2011;Kjellstrom et al, 2007;Vlahov et al, 2007). The availability of some public services (mainly sewage and water supply) varies considerably across cities, particularly in large and intermediate metropolitan areas, which already constitute a vast majority of urban settlements in Latin America (IDB, 2011;Carrera, 2013).…”

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Assessing the Effects of Climate and Socioeconomic Factors on Vulnerability to Vector-Borne Diseases in Latin America

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Climate change is imposing a large burden on the most vulnerable populations, particularly in the developing world. Establishing consistent causal relationships, however, is difficult because a multiplicity of climatic, economic and sociodemographic elements are combined to create the conditions for an outbreak of vector-borne disease. Based on a two-step procedure, this paper presents and tests an approach to estimating the effects of epidemic outbreaks on health vulnerability. The model proposed is empirically tested for five countries in Latin America where dengue is a national health priority. Using data from national censuses, satellite climate information and data from a newly developed disease outbreak surveillance online platform, the paper finds that climate has nonnegligible effects on health vulnerability. The evidence found and the vulnerability index constructed can be used to analyze the main determinants of vulnerability in order to address policy concerns. Terms of use: Documents inJEL classifications: D04, Q51, Q54, R58

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“…50(pp32-33) Given the expected increase in climate-change-related disasters, this is an issue of growing importance. 51 Ways of ensuring that urban environments are more resilient include creating standardized infrastructure networks in small, autonomous units that are easy to maintain. 52 …”

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Toward a Research and Action Agenda on Urban Planning/Design and Health Equity in Cities in Low and Middle-Income Countries

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The importance of reestablishing the link between urban planning and public health has been recognized in recent decades; this paper focuses on the relationship between urban planning/design and health equity, especially in cities in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The physical urban environment can be shaped through various planning and design processes including urban planning, urban design, landscape architecture, infrastructure design, architecture, and transport planning. The resultant urban environment has important impacts on the health of the people who live and work there. Urban planning and design processes can also affect health equity through shaping the extent to which the physical urban environments of different parts of cities facilitate the availability of adequate housing and basic infrastructure, equitable access to the other benefits of urban life, a safe living environment, a healthy natural environment, food security and healthy nutrition, and an urban environment conducive to outdoor physical activity. A new research and action agenda for the urban environment and health equity in LMICs should consist of four main components. We need to better understand intra-urban health inequities in LMICs; we need to better understand how changes in the built environment in LMICs affect health equity; we need to explore ways of successfully planning, designing, and implementing improved health/health equity; and we need to develop evidence-based recommendations for healthy urban planning/design in LMICs.

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Urban Health Inequities and the Added Pressure of Climate Change: An Action-Oriented Research Agenda

Cited by 63 publications

References 34 publications

Addressing the Social and Environmental Determinants of Urban Health Equity: Evidence for Action and a Research Agenda

Addressing the Social and Environmental Determinants of Urban Health Equity: Evidence for Action and a Research Agenda

Assessing the Effects of Climate and Socioeconomic Factors on Vulnerability to Vector-Borne Diseases in Latin America

Toward a Research and Action Agenda on Urban Planning/Design and Health Equity in Cities in Low and Middle-Income Countries

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