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the environment?<br />
While urban living continues to offer<br />
many opportunities, jobs, and services,<br />
urban areas can also concentrate<br />
health risks and hazards.<br />
Health risks brought about<br />
by unsustainable and<br />
unplanned development of<br />
urban housing, transport,<br />
and food systems, include:<br />
Climate risks<br />
Air pollution<br />
Housing – related<br />
health<br />
Nutrition insecurity<br />
and unhealthy diets<br />
Unsafe drinking -<br />
water, sanitation and<br />
waste management<br />
Urban green spaces<br />
Urban populations in both low – and high<br />
– income countries demonstrate some<br />
of the world’s most prominent health<br />
disparities. Far to many urban dwellers<br />
live in overcrowded slums that lack<br />
proper sanitation urban housing, Poor<br />
planned or unplanned urban housing,<br />
transport, and food systems, along whit<br />
social and lifestyle factors, are drivers<br />
in the epidemic of noncomminucable<br />
diseases, which are linked to risks and<br />
hazards such as air pollution, poor diet,<br />
physical inactivity, traffic injury and<br />
domestic injury.
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