SOC364H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Social Capital, Sexually Transmitted Infection, Built Environment
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Cities can defeat definition and challenge imagination elegant, sophisticated places. Cities can be small, compact areas or vast, extensive, automobile-dependent metropolitan areas that are disconnected and homogenous. Cities can represent diverse conditions within which people live, and represent a range of human experiences. Urban health: study of health of urban populations: includes 2 principle aspects: the description of the health of urban populations, both as a whole and as particular subgroups within cities, An understanding of the determinants of population health in cities particular attention to how characteristics of cities themselves may affect the health of urban populations. Urban health can include a range of clinical, planning, or policy work that aims to improve the health of urban populations. Why thinking about urban health is important: city living is becoming the norm for an ever growing proportion of the world" population, understanding the urban context and its possible role in shaping population health is imperative.
