Urban environment is a highly complex interactive socio-physical system, with competing expectations and priorities. Public health interventions have always had a fundamental role in the control of diseases in cities. WHO considers urbanization as one of the key challenges for public health in the twenty-first century, since cities offer significant opportunities to improve public health if health-enhancing policies and actions are promoted. A multidisciplinary approach is required, but the basic differences existing between technical and health disciplines make the interaction difficult. The multidisciplinary collaboration is still at a very early stage of development, and needs to be further understood and planned. The author concludes stressing the need for a transversal training, but also for sharing knowledge, instruments and methods, involving all the actors in the planning process, to develop a real multidisciplinary approach.

Urban public health, a multidisciplinary approach / D'Alessandro, D.. - (2020), pp. 1-8. - GREEN ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY. [10.1007/978-3-030-49446-9_1].

Urban public health, a multidisciplinary approach

D'Alessandro D.
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2020

Abstract

Urban environment is a highly complex interactive socio-physical system, with competing expectations and priorities. Public health interventions have always had a fundamental role in the control of diseases in cities. WHO considers urbanization as one of the key challenges for public health in the twenty-first century, since cities offer significant opportunities to improve public health if health-enhancing policies and actions are promoted. A multidisciplinary approach is required, but the basic differences existing between technical and health disciplines make the interaction difficult. The multidisciplinary collaboration is still at a very early stage of development, and needs to be further understood and planned. The author concludes stressing the need for a transversal training, but also for sharing knowledge, instruments and methods, involving all the actors in the planning process, to develop a real multidisciplinary approach.
2020
Urban health. Participatory action-research models contrasting socioeconomic inequalities in the urban context
978-3-030-49445-2
978-3-030-49446-9
cities; multidisciplinary; planning; public health; urban health
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Urban public health, a multidisciplinary approach / D'Alessandro, D.. - (2020), pp. 1-8. - GREEN ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY. [10.1007/978-3-030-49446-9_1].
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