Urbanization and Health
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Cities, urbanization and health.
It is in cities, and not the countryside, where the human ‘creative flame’ has burnt most brightly. For millennia they have been the centres and drivers of commercial, scientific, political and cultural life, having major influence upon whole countries and regions. The positive and progressive aspects of cities and urban centres recognized by historians, economists and other social scientists c...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2579-1451,1391-3174
DOI: 10.4038/jccpsl.v14i1.2941