This Series on urban design, transport, and health aimed to facilitate development of a
global system of health-related policy and spatial indicators to assess achievements and …

City planning policies influence urban lifestyles, health, and sustainability. We assessed
policy frameworks for city planning for 25 cities across 19 lower-middle-income countries …

Significant global health challenges are being confronted in the 21st century, prompting
calls to rethink approaches to disease prevention. A key part of the solution is city planning …

Benchmarking and monitoring of urban design and transport features is crucial to achieving
local and international health and sustainability goals. However, most urban indicator …

Land-use and transport policies contribute to worldwide epidemics of injuries and non-
communicable diseases through traffic exposure, noise, air pollution, social isolation, low …

Introduction Half the world population lives in cities and this is likely to increase to 70% over
the next 20 years. Suboptimal urban and transport planning has led to eg high levels of air …

Executive summary The Healthy Cities movement has been in process for almost 30 years,
and the features needed to transform a city into a healthy one are becoming increasingly …

Today, urban and transport planners face considerable challenges in designing and
retrofitting cities that are prepared for increasing urban populations, and their service and …

China implemented the first phase of its National Healthy Cities pilot program from 2016-20.
Along with related urban health governmental initiatives, the program has helped put health …

Creating healthy and sustainable cities: what gets measured, gets done - The Lancet Global
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