Inclusive Cities: Healthy Cities for All

This publication reports on some of the health challenges facing cities. It aims to serve as a guide for public managers and decision makers optimize the great potential of cities to improve the well-being of those who reside in the cities of Latin America and the Caribbean. It is organized in two parts. The first part, Health Inequalities in Latin American Cities, focuses on identifying the ways in which social inequality has led to negative health outcomes, in order to make visible the relevance of the challenge of inequality and the urgency to grapple with it. The second part, Urban Policies for Healthy Cities, focuses on how cities can contribute to improving the health standards in their population. The publication addresses critical issues for urban health, such as the interdependence between physical-social factors and health, the relationship between urban characteristics and the incidence of COVID-19, the connections between social inequality and exposure to pollution environment, the relationship between urban planning and gender violence, the power of urban interventions -such as public transport and social housing- to improve health indicators, and the relevance of having good data to improve the accessibility of health systems. All the contributions in this book are based on data and rigorous research, and present real cases of the cities of the region.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Inter-American Development Bank
Other Authors:	Nora Ruth Libertun de Duren
Language:	English
Published:	Inter-American Development Bank
Subjects:	Health, Equality, Coronavirus, Healthy City, Inclusive City, Public Health, Air Quality, Air Pollution, I12 - Health Behavior, I14 - Health and Inequality, I15 - Health and Economic Development, I18 - Government Policy • Regulation • Public Health, I31 - General Welfare Well-Being, I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty, I38 - Government Policy • Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs, Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects, Q52 - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs • Distributional Effects • Employment Effects, Q53 - Air Pollution • Water Pollution • Noise • Hazardous Waste • Solid Waste • Recycling, Q54 - Climate • Natural Disasters and Their Management • Global Warming, Q55 - Technological Innovation, Q56 - Environment and Development • Environment and Trade • Sustainability • Environmental Accounts and Accounting • Environmental Equity • Population Growth, Q58 - Government Policy, R14 - Land Use Patterns, R23 - Regional Migration • Regional Labor Markets • Population • Neighborhood Characteristics, R28 - Government Policy, R29 - Household Analysis: Other, health;policy;health policy;urban health;health inequalities;health services;health access mortality;universal health coverage;primary health care;digital health;spatial inequality;ambient air pollution;ambient noise pollution;neighborhoods;housing;transportation;climate;security;governance;healing;violence;Latin America and the Caribbean.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004459 https://publications.iadb.org/en/inclusive-cities-healthy-cities-all
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