As COVID-19 wreaks havoc on cities and neighborhoods, the globe is learning new methods to solve issues prevent potential repercussions of pandemics revolutionary proportions negative effects people well-being in future. It therefore becomes extremely important consider re-examining how regions are planned, designed, built maintained. problem study crystallized (the lack measures treatments use...

This paper provides a brief overview of, and elaborates on, some of the presentations, discussions and conclusions from Day 4 of the 'WHO EURO 2014 International Healthy Cities Conference: Health and the City - Urban Living in the 21st Century', held in Athens, Greece on 25 October 2014. The Internet of Things (IoT) is made of sensors and other components that connect our version of the world m...

Given the higher incidence of skin diseases in more urbanized populations and its association with the skin microbiome, we questioned how the skin microbiome differed depending on the degree of urbanization. Skin microbiomes of 231 healthy subjects in five large cities in China varied mainly with environment and socioeconomic status of the cities in question. The differences among microbiomes c...

As the world urbanizes, global health challenges are increasingly concentrated in cities. Currently, over 80% of the population in Latin America already lives in cities. The African urban population is projected to double in the next decade and China has urbanized in thirty years at a rate it took Europe and North America a century [1]. Rapidly growing new cities and increasingly segregated old...

The Healthy Cities Project (HCP) builds on the WHO definition of health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being and has become an important WHO vehicle for promoting Health For All strategy at a local level. One of the requirements to be designated a “Healthy City” is to produce a City Health Profile (CHP), bringing together key information on health and its determinants....

The World Health Organization (WHO) has been a strong and persistent voice calling for the recognition of the role of health in development and of the impact of socio-economic development on health. Health impact assessment (HIA) is one mechanism that can be used to achieve this goal. The objective of this paper is to describe HIA practice in the WHO European Healthy Cities Network and present ...

The objective of the study is to apply data reduction techniques PCA and FA on Healthy Lifestyle Cities Report 2021 also cluster same using Analysis. analysed 44 cities across globe uncover where it easier lead a well-rounded, healthy lifestyle. From obesity levels pollution rates, each city has been scored 6 living metrics. Each these metrics were awarded weighted score combined give total sor...

The world’s population of people aged over 60 will double from 11% in 2006 to 22% by 2050. Even more dramatic will be the growth in the number of the very old. Between 1950 and 2050, the number of people over the age of 80 will grow from 14 million to 400 million worldwide. At the same time, the pace of urbanization continues unabated: by 2030 an estimated three in five people will be urban dwe...