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SUBMITTER: Stauber C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6025373 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stauber Christine C Adams Ellis A EA Rothenberg Richard R Dai Dajun D Luo Ruiyan R Weaver Scott R SR Prasad Amit A Kano Megumi M Heath John J
International journal of environmental research and public health 20180609 6
The relative significance of indicators and determinants of health is important for local public health workers and planners. Of similar importance is a method for combining and evaluating such markers. We used a recently developed index, the Urban Health Index (UHI), to examine the impact of environmental variables on the overall health of cities. We used the UHI to rank 57 of the world’s largest cities (based on population size) in low- and middle-income countries. We examined nine varia ...[more]