Measuring the Impact of Environment on the Health of Large Cities.

ABSTRACT: The relative significance of indicators and determinants of health is important for local public health workers and planners. Of similar importance is a method for combining and evaluating such markers. We used a recently developed index, the Urban Health Index (UHI), to examine the impact of environmental variables on the overall health of cities. We used the UHI to rank 57 of the world’s largest cities (based on population size) in low- and middle-income countries. We examined nine variables in various combinations that were available from the Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in these countries. When arranged in ascending order, the distribution of UHIs follows the previously described pattern of gradual linear increase, with departures at each tail. The rank order of citie

SUBMITTER: Stauber C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6025373 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature