Abstract
More than half of the global population now live in urban settings. The failure of city governments on addressing of the key social determinants of health can lead in the growth of informal settlements and slums that constitute unhealthy living and working environments. It would be impacted to issue ranging from poverty deprived urban living conditions and health vulnerability, burden of disease and communicable diseases, injuries and violence, mental health and substance abuse, noncommunicable diseases and nutritional disorders. Interventions that address the conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, and play have the greatest potential impact on people health. It means that community wide approaches aimed at improving population health. Urban development and town planning are key to creating supportive social and physical environments for health and health equity. The healthy city approach toward addressing a variety of urban health challenges is increasingly important in the context of urbanisation and globalization. A healthy city is one that is continually creating and improving those physical and social environments and expanding those community resources which enable people to mutually support each other in performing all the functions of life and developing to their maximum potential. This paper aims to describe how urbanisations impact global health, exploring issues and challenges of the urban settings as determinant of health, healthy city concept, and how the challenges of partnership across sector on implementation of healthy city in Indonesia.
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-12,
title = {Urbanisation and Social Determinant of Health},
author = {Rizanda Machmud},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {More than half of the global population now live in urban settings. The failure of city governments on addressing of the key social determinants of health can lead in the growth of informal settlements and slums that constitute unhealthy living and working environments. It would be impacted to issue ranging from poverty deprived urban living conditions and health vulnerability, burden of disease and communicable diseases, injuries and violence, mental health and substance abuse, noncommunicable diseases and nutritional disorders. Interventions that address the conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, and play have the greatest potential impact on people health. It means that community wide approaches aimed at improving population health. Urban development and town planning are key to creating supportive social and physical environments for health and health equity. The healthy city approach toward addressing a variety of urban health challenges is increasingly important in the context of urbanisation and globalization. A healthy city is one that is continually creating and improving those physical and social environments and expanding those community resources which enable people to mutually support each other in performing all the functions of life and developing to their maximum potential. This paper aims to describe how urbanisations impact global health, exploring issues and challenges of the urban settings as determinant of health, healthy city concept, and how the challenges of partnership across sector on implementation of healthy city in Indonesia.},
note = {Type: PLENARY AND SYMPOSIUM; Organisation: Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Andalas University, Indonesia},
keywords = {community wide approaches, healthy city, partnership, poverty, social determinant of health, urbanisation},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}