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nants of health. The core membership of KNUS consists of a dozen international experts, each from a different geographic region.

Below is a full table of contents for the Journal of Urban Health supplement.

  • "Urban Poverty is a Public Health Issue"
    Susan Mercado, Kirsten Havemann, Mojgan Sami, and Hiro Ueda

  • "Urban as Determinant of Health"
    David Vlahov, Nicholas Freudenberg, Fernando Proietti, Danielle Ompad, Andrew Quinn, Vijay Nandi, and Sandro Galea

  • "Emerging Disease Burdens and the Poor in Cities of the Developing World"
    Tim Campbell and Alana Campbell

  • "Climate Change and Health in Developing Country Cities"
    Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum and Carlos Corvalan

  • "Cities and Calamities: Learning from Post-disaster Response in Indonesia"
    Josef Leitmann

  • "Social Determinants of the Health of Urban Populations: Implications for Intervention"
    Danielle C. Ompad, Sandro Galea, Waleska T. Caiaffa, and David Vlahov

  • "Urbanisation and Slum Formation"
    Giok Ling Ooi and Kai Hong Phua

  • "Income and Health in Cities: The Messages from Stylized Facts"
    Shahid Yusuf, Kaoru Nabeshima, and Wei Ha

  • "The Design of Housing and Shelter Programs: The Social and Environmental Determinants of Inequalities"
    Shaaban Sheuya , Philippa Howden-Chapman, and Sheela Patel

  • "The Health Equity Dimensions of Urban Food Systems"
    Jane Dixon, Sharon Friel, Abiud M. Omwega, Kelly Donati, Cate Burns, and Rachel Carlisle

  • "The Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS, TB and Vector-borne Diseases in Slums and Informal Settlements: Challenges, Opportunities and Insights"
    Annette David, Susan Mercado, Daniel Becker, Katia Edmundo and Frederick Mugisha

  • "Improving Health and Building Human Capital Through an Effecti
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New York Academy of Medicine
17-May-2007


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