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 million people around the globe are homeless.
Challenges of The Gambia’s COVID-19 response and policy recommendations
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.
A global building network research for advancing healthy and affordable housing
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 million people around the globe are homeless.
Cities investing in healthy and sustainable food environments for all children.
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.
Childhood Experiences of Sexual Violence, Pregnancy, and Marriage Associated with Child Sex Trafficking Among Female Sex Workers in Two US-Mexico Border Cities
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 16.
Urban Health In Africa
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 at the center of urban planning.
The Inclusion of Gender in 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 in regards to women’s reproductive health.