Demographic change and urban health: Towards a novel agenda for delivering sustainable and healthy cities for all [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
The focus is on the demographic drivers and demographic implications of urban health and wellbeing in towns and cities across the globe. The aim is to identify key linkages between demographic change and urban health – subjects of two largely disparate fields of research and practice – with a view t...
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| author | Alex Ezeh Sandro Galea Trudy Harpham James Duminy Danzhen You Daniela Weber Amy Weimann Mark R. Montgomery J. M. Ian Salas |
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| description | The focus is on the demographic drivers and demographic implications of urban health and wellbeing in towns and cities across the globe. The aim is to identify key linkages between demographic change and urban health – subjects of two largely disparate fields of research and practice – with a view to informing arguments and advocacy for urban health while identifying research gaps and priorities. The core arguments are threefold. First, urban health advocates should express a globalized perspective on demographic processes, encompassing age-structural shifts in addition to population growth and decrease, and acknowledging their uneven spatial distributions within and between urban settings in different contexts. Second, advocates should recognize the dynamic and transformational effects that demographic forces will exert on economic and political systems in all urban settings. While demographic forces underpin the production of (intra)urban inequities in health, they also present opportunities to address those inequities. Third, a demographic perspective may help to extend urban health thinking and intervention beyond a biomedical model of disease, highlighting the need for a multi-generational view of the changing societal bases for urban health, and enjoining significant advances in how interested parties collect, manage, analyse, and use demographic data. Accordingly, opportunities are identified to increase the availability of granular and accurate data to enable evidence-informed action on the demographic/health nexus. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-65e0ba07dc7c4c6396d6a0cb167f2b342024-02-28T01:00:02ZengF1000 Research LtdF1000Research2046-14022023-12-0112159707Demographic change and urban health: Towards a novel agenda for delivering sustainable and healthy cities for all [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]Alex Ezeh0Sandro Galea1Trudy Harpham2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4262-9352James Duminy3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0643-5465Danzhen You4Daniela Weber5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7873-0458Amy Weimann6Mark R. Montgomery7J. M. Ian Salas8Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USASchool of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USALondon South Bank University, London, England, UKSchool of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, England, UKUnited Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), New York, New York, USAInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Lower Austria, AustriaAfrican Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Western Cape, South AfricaDepartment of Economics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USABloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USAThe focus is on the demographic drivers and demographic implications of urban health and wellbeing in towns and cities across the globe. The aim is to identify key linkages between demographic change and urban health – subjects of two largely disparate fields of research and practice – with a view to informing arguments and advocacy for urban health while identifying research gaps and priorities. The core arguments are threefold. First, urban health advocates should express a globalized perspective on demographic processes, encompassing age-structural shifts in addition to population growth and decrease, and acknowledging their uneven spatial distributions within and between urban settings in different contexts. Second, advocates should recognize the dynamic and transformational effects that demographic forces will exert on economic and political systems in all urban settings. While demographic forces underpin the production of (intra)urban inequities in health, they also present opportunities to address those inequities. Third, a demographic perspective may help to extend urban health thinking and intervention beyond a biomedical model of disease, highlighting the need for a multi-generational view of the changing societal bases for urban health, and enjoining significant advances in how interested parties collect, manage, analyse, and use demographic data. Accordingly, opportunities are identified to increase the availability of granular and accurate data to enable evidence-informed action on the demographic/health nexus.https://f1000research.com/articles/12-1017/v2emography urban health wellbeing population urbanization citieseng |
| spellingShingle | Alex Ezeh Sandro Galea Trudy Harpham James Duminy Danzhen You Daniela Weber Amy Weimann Mark R. Montgomery J. M. Ian Salas Demographic change and urban health: Towards a novel agenda for delivering sustainable and healthy cities for all [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] F1000Research emography urban health wellbeing population urbanization cities eng |
| title | Demographic change and urban health: Towards a novel agenda for delivering sustainable and healthy cities for all [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_full | Demographic change and urban health: Towards a novel agenda for delivering sustainable and healthy cities for all [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_fullStr | Demographic change and urban health: Towards a novel agenda for delivering sustainable and healthy cities for all [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_full_unstemmed | Demographic change and urban health: Towards a novel agenda for delivering sustainable and healthy cities for all [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_short | Demographic change and urban health: Towards a novel agenda for delivering sustainable and healthy cities for all [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_sort | demographic change and urban health towards a novel agenda for delivering sustainable and healthy cities for all version 2 peer review 2 approved |
| topic | emography urban health wellbeing population urbanization cities eng |
| url | https://f1000research.com/articles/12-1017/v2 |
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