Background Indicators are essential instruments for monitoring and evaluating population health. The selection of a multidimensional set of indicators should not only reflect the …
Urban health inequities often reflect and follow the geographic patterns of inequality in the social, economic and environmental conditions within a city—the so-called determinants of …
Health promotion and inequality reduction are specific goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, which are interconnected with several dimensions of life. This work proposes a …
Background Population health measurements are recognised as appropriate tools to support public health monitoring. Yet, there is still a lack of tools that offer a basis for policy …
Background Health inequalities have been consistently reported across and within European countries and continue to pose major challenges to policy-making. The …
As a cross-sectoral issue, the promotion of health needs to be addressed across all policies. In Portugal, as more competencies are being transferred to local governments, the …
The study concerns the relationship between health and geopolitics in the United Kingdom (UK). To demonstrate this relationship, we examined the subject and tone of articles …
Environmental health (EH) is influenced by complex interactions between health and the built and natural environments, there being little research on its specificities in urban …
Background Nelson Mandela once stated that “As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest” 1. Inequity has a spatial footprint …