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Explores the emerging public health issues associated with rapid growth of urban population in developing countries, with a particular focus on the urban poor. Includes urban demography, epidemiology, changes in an urban physical and social environment and their consequences for health, nutritional issues, the inadequacy of conventional health services, and the design and implementation of a coordinated and cost-effective health care system. Introduces these concepts and presents case studies for analysis. Emphasizes sensitizing and capacity-building by exposing public health professionals and researchers to the unique urban health problems of developing countries.
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
13 hours, 43 minutes
Units & Quizzes
15
Unlimited Lifetime access
Access on mobile app
Certificate of Completion
Course Objectives
- To identify the key issues associated with the rapid growth of urban population in developing countries.
- To critically analyze some of these issues and their implications for public health.
- To examine methods to deal with the emerging and complex issues of urban health in developing countries by reviewing successful case studies.
- To critically analyze the successes and weaknesses of each case study, the lessons learned from them, and learn to apply the lessons.
The readings shown here are samples from the most recent offering of the course. The live course reading list is updated with each offering through a news room page called the City News Desk.
» Module 1 Web Links
Clean Air Initiative - global effort for world's citites Definition of a Slum - Wikipedia Jhpiego meets needs in Nairobi slums Slums in Dicken's London Tate Modern Global Cities Exhibition Urbanization World Watch Institute
» Module 2 Web Links
On the Margins in Mauritania
» Module 3 Web Links
Healthy Municipalities and Cities, PAHO Urban Health Resource Center, India
» Resource Page 1 - What is a Slum?
Jhpiego meets needs of slum populations in Nairobi Manucuso L. Slumdog Reality, Baltimore Sun. March 1, 2009. Video: A SLUM INSIGHT Agarwal S, Taneja S: All slums are not equal. Indian Pediatrics 2005;42:233-244 Bearak B. Anti-Immigrant Violence in Johannesburg. New York Times. May 19, 2008. BBC News. Life in a Slum, Dharavi Slum. BBC News. Fire Destroys Manila Homes. April 2007. BBC New. In pictures: Sierra Leone slum. Planet Slum - Foreign Policy. November 5, 2009. Planet of Slums - Davis - Orion, Mar/Apr 2006 Slum Ecology - Orion Mar/Apr 2006 Unger A, Riley LW. Slum Health: From Understanding to Action. PLoS Medicine. 2007;4:e295 Mugabi P. Slum Setting Unfavorable to Development, Uganda Daily Monitor, 2008
» Resource Page 2 - Urban Climate Change
Climate Change and Malaria Climate Change and Urban Children Climate Change May Drown Cities Roberts D. Thinking globally, acting locally - institutionalizing climate change at the local government level in Durban, South Africa. Environment and Urbanization 2008;20(2):521-537 Rosenthal E. In Bolivia, Water & Ice Tell of Climate Change. New York Times. Dec 13, 2009.
Course Currilcum
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- Lecture 1: A Framework for the Study of Urban Health (Abdullah Baqui) 00:55:00
- Lecture 2: Global Urbanization: Trends, Patterns, Determinants, and Impacts (Abdullah Baqui) 00:50:00
- Lecture 3: The Urban Environment and Health in Developing Countries (Abdullah Baqui) 00:45:00
- Lecture 4: The Urban Social Environment (William Brieger) 00:59:00
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- Lecture 5: The Burden of Urban Ill-Health from Road Transport in Developing Countries (Adnan Hyder) 00:55:00
- Lecture 6: Urban Primary Health Care and Health Systems (Abdullah Baqui & William Brieger) 00:55:00
- Lecture 7: Urbanization and the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (William Moss) 00:55:00
- Lecture 8: Feeding Cities (William Brieger) 01:00:00
- Lecture 9: Municipalization and Urban Health: Tendencies in the Americas, Lessons Learned, and Challenges (Marilyn Rice) 00:59:00
- Lecture 10: Urban Health in India: A Case Study (Siddharth Agarwal) 01:00:00
- Lecture 11: Selected Strategies to Improve Access to and Quality of Urban Primary Health Care (Abdullah Baqui) 01:00:00
- Lecture 12: Urban Environment Case Study 2: Community Health Coalitions in Urban Nigeria, 1994-2005 (Brieger) 01:00:00
- Lecture 13: A Case Study on Participatory Budgeting in Latin America (Marilyn Rice) 01:00:00
- Live Talk Presentations 01:00:00
