A Novel International Partnership for Actionable Evidence on Urban Health in Latin America: LAC‐Urban Health and SALURBAL
Autor: | José G. Siri, Ricardo Jordán Fuchs, Marcio Alazraqui, Alejandra Vives Vergara, Daniel A. Rodriguez, Olga L. Sarmiento Dueñas, S. Claire Slesinski, Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa, Patricia Frenz, Ana V. Diez Roux, J. Jaime Miranda |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
Economic growth
Latin Americans interdisciplinary collaboration Inequality media_common.quotation_subject Globe urban health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Urbanization Political science 11. Sustainability medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Dissemination health equity media_common 030505 public health Full Paper 1. No poverty Full Papers sustainability Health equity 3. Good health Latin America medicine.anatomical_structure Multinational corporation Sustainability 0305 other medical science |
Zdroj: | Global Challenges |
ISSN: | 2056-6646 |
DOI: | 10.1002/gch2.201800013 |
Popis: | This article describes the origins and characteristics of an interdisciplinary multinational collaboration aimed at promoting and disseminating actionable evidence on the drivers of health in cities in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Network for Urban Health in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Wellcome Trust funded SALURBAL (Salud Urbana en América Latina, or Urban Health in Latin America) Project. Both initiatives have the goals of supporting urban policies that promote health and health equity in cities of the region while at the same time generating generalizable knowledge for urban areas across the globe. The processes, challenges, as well as the lessons learned to date in launching and implementing these collaborations, are described. By leveraging the unique features of the Latin American region (one of the most urbanized areas of the world with some of the most innovative urban policies), the aim is to produce generalizable knowledge about the links between urbanization, health, and environments and to identify effective ways to organize, design, and govern cities to improve health, reduce health inequalities, and maximize environmental sustainability in cities all over the world. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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