Saturday, January 16, 2010

Urbanization and Health Resources

For a simple overview of the issues involved, see the following lecture notes:
http://depts.washington.edu/envir202/Lessons/Lesson05.pdf

For more detail about individual countries, check out:
http://urbanhealthupdates.wordpress.com/. There are link to issues in individual countries along the righthand side. The newsletter posted on the main page is also informative.

Want a case study? Have a look at the UN reports posted at
http://urbanhealthupdates.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/who-centre-for-health-development-urban-dengue-in-bangkok/

For more explanation of trends in urbanization and health, see
http://www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/papers/Urban_Expansion_background_paper.pdf

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