As cities grow and technology advances, integrating healthcare into urban infrastructure is reshaping how medical services ...

A research team has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that uses satellite imagery to track urban green spaces more accurately than prior methods, critical to ensuring healthy cities.

Pathogens such as the coronavirus can travel around the world at a speed that too often outpaces governments’ ability to detect, treat, cure, and prevent diseases. Even the best-funded health care ...

Research from University of Northampton academic Rhys Furlong reveals the emotional, health and social benefits having an ...

A new research study shows that rates for smoking, obesity and chronic conditions such as heart disease are comparatively ...

Life expectancy, death and the critical role of public health were among a variety of subjects the McLeod County Board tackled at its April 7 meeting. Discussion started early in the meeting when ...

CHORUS Bangladesh seeks evidence-based solutions to improve urban primary healthcare. I think urban health issues really need to be addressed. Improving the urban environment, so it becomes healthy ...

This individual will likely have a high BMI. In this instance, though, having a high BMI does not mean they have obesity or a greater risk of health conditions that are associated with obesity. In ...

Urban environment and health: a cross-sectional multiregional project based ... 67 68 Neighbourhood-level SES will be considered via three variables, namely, mean income, income distribution P80/P20, ...

(4) Accountability must be clear. (5) Fairness: the processes in decision-making and implementation of these decisions with the aim of reducing health inequalities need to be fair.14 It is worth ...

Taylyn Washington-Harmon is the associate editor at Health.com. A former social media ... a term or wouldn't use it for yourself, it doesn't mean it isn't equally affirming and valid for another ...

Health policymakers, researchers, and development partners gathered in Dhaka to discuss challenges and prospects for urban health in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The policy dialogue, ...