Cities across the globe require better infrastructures that provides affordable housing and supports healthy and thriving cities. The United Nations statistics state that approximately 1.6 billion people worldwide reside in substandard housing, and another 100...
With the urban transition, malnutrition increasingly affects urban areas: one in three children is stunted; at the same time overweight and obesity continue to rise.
Cities across the globe require better infrastructures that provides affordable housing and supports healthy and thriving cities. The United Nations statistics state that approximately 1.6 billion people worldwide reside in substandard housing, and another 100...
COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of children having daily access to nutritious foods not just because it’s good for them, but because it can decrease their chances of contracting the virus and falling detrimentally ill.
In the 2018 AJPH study, of the girls trafficked along the US-Mexico border, 54.3% were pregnant before age 16, 60.2% were married before they turned 16, and 55.2% experienced sexual violence before the age of...
In order to build thriving cities and urban areas, the citizens must be healthy. Healthy citizens are capable of working, growing economies, learning, and maintaining overall sustainable cities, thus, it is imperative to place health...
Women and girls are just as vulnerable to other health conditions that are not related to reproductive health, however, if you do a simple google search on women’s health, the top results shown are always...