Urban health — What it is and Why We Should Care
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15173/sciential.vi6.2722Keywords:
urban health, vulnerable populations, social determinants of health, public health, health disparitiesAbstract
Urban health is a field of study that draws upon multiple disciplines including sociology, public health, epidemiology, and geography among others. This piece argues for the further development and prioritization of urban health as an area of research. This is discussed with respect to structural health inequalities, urbanization and urbanicity, and demographic change. Urban health is inherently complex and needs a multifaceted approach to tackle unique public health problems. This complexity, alongside its potential to inform emerging areas of scientific research such as neurourbanism, makes developing urban health of utmost priority.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2021 Sciential - McMaster Undergraduate Science Journal
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Authors submitting to the journal must adhere to the terms of Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license as outlined below:
1. You are free to share (copy and redistribute) any material from this journal, granted you have given appropriate credit, provided the link to the license, and indicated whether changes were applied to original work.
2. You are free to adapt (remix, transform, and build upon) any material from this journal, granted you distribute your work under the same license.
