Significant global health challenges are being confronted in the 21st century, prompting
calls to rethink approaches to disease prevention. A key part of the solution is city planning …

City planning policies influence urban lifestyles, health, and sustainability. We assessed
policy frameworks for city planning for 25 cities across 19 lower-middle-income countries …

Executive summary The Healthy Cities movement has been in process for almost 30 years,
and the features needed to transform a city into a healthy one are becoming increasingly …

Rapidly increasing urbanisation along with ageing populations, climate change,
environmental degrada tion, COVID19, and other pandemics present substantial challenges …

This Series on urban design, transport, and health aimed to facilitate development of a
global system of health-related policy and spatial indicators to assess achievements and …

Land-use and transport policies contribute to worldwide epidemics of injuries and non-
communicable diseases through traffic exposure, noise, air pollution, social isolation, low …

Using a health impact assessment framework, we estimated the population health effects
arising from alternative land-use and transport policy initiatives in six cities. Land-use …

Creating healthy and sustainable cities: what gets measured, gets done - The Lancet Global
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Millennium Project faced in the 19th century, when the first wave of urban industrialisation
imposed uncomfortably similar health threats upon the growing cities of Europe and the …

Introduction Half the world population lives in cities and this is likely to increase to 70% over
the next 20 years. Suboptimal urban and transport planning has led to eg high levels of air …