Abstract
INTRODUCTION: The growth of cities was a striking trend that was set to continue. According to the United Nation in 2016, there were 512 cities around the world with at least 1 million inhabitants, and 31 megacities with at least 10 million inhabitants. By 2030 these numbers were projected to grow to 662 and 41 respectively. More than half of the world population lived in cities. Urbanisation was a positive development, promoting economic growth and bringing people out of poverty. Through urbanisation new environments can be created for industries and technologies to grow and prosper the economic and livelihood of cities inhabitants. The nature of urbanisation is often characterised by high densities of human populations, complex infrastructural needs, high economic activities, governance, multicultural and often finances and service dependent. However, these characters can also be a vulnerability to urban populations. A US Army Study described megacities as becoming the epicentre of human activity on the planet and as such they will generate most of the friction which compel future conflict and crisis. Being dense, an incident in an Urban Environment will often result in mass casualties and large economic losses. Natural hazards like earthquake, floods, diseases and manmade hazards like fires, industrial accidents, street violent and riots, terrorism, insurgencies and armed conflicts will post potential risk that need to be mitigated by authorities to ensure inhabitant are protected and safe. Megacities also are vulnerable to outbreaks not only from poor sanitation and poverty but also from its high travelling population. These challenges will require an interagency response plan to prevent and effectively response to an urban population and environmental crisis. CONCLUSION: The role of the Malaysia Armed Forces is to support the civil authority in any crisis situation to ensure no or minimum human casualty and physical damages.
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-1,
title = {Urbanisation Challenges in Health: Urban Crisis: Preventions, Readiness and Preparedness},
author = {Md Amin Muslan},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {INTRODUCTION: The growth of cities was a striking trend that was set to continue. According to the United Nation in 2016, there were 512 cities around the world with at least 1 million inhabitants, and 31 megacities with at least 10 million inhabitants. By 2030 these numbers were projected to grow to 662 and 41 respectively. More than half of the world population lived in cities. Urbanisation was a positive development, promoting economic growth and bringing people out of poverty. Through urbanisation new environments can be created for industries and technologies to grow and prosper the economic and livelihood of cities inhabitants. The nature of urbanisation is often characterised by high densities of human populations, complex infrastructural needs, high economic activities, governance, multicultural and often finances and service dependent. However, these characters can also be a vulnerability to urban populations. A US Army Study described megacities as becoming the epicentre of human activity on the planet and as such they will generate most of the friction which compel future conflict and crisis. Being dense, an incident in an Urban Environment will often result in mass casualties and large economic losses. Natural hazards like earthquake, floods, diseases and manmade hazards like fires, industrial accidents, street violent and riots, terrorism, insurgencies and armed conflicts will post potential risk that need to be mitigated by authorities to ensure inhabitant are protected and safe. Megacities also are vulnerable to outbreaks not only from poor sanitation and poverty but also from its high travelling population. These challenges will require an interagency response plan to prevent and effectively response to an urban population and environmental crisis. CONCLUSION: The role of the Malaysia Armed Forces is to support the civil authority in any crisis situation to ensure no or minimum human casualty and physical damages.},
note = {Type: PLENARY AND SYMPOSIUM; Organisation: Director General of Malaysian Armed Forces Health Service, Kuala Lumpur},
keywords = {Malaysian Armed Forces, potential risk, urbanisation},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}