Caiaffa Waleska Teixeira, Ferreira Fabiane Ribeiro, Ferreira Aline Dayrell, Oliveira Claúdia Di Lorenzo, Camargos Vitor Passos, Proietti Fernando Augusto
Observatório de Saúde Urbana, Faculdade de Medicina, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, MG.
Cien Saude Colet. 2008 Nov-Dec;13(6):1785-96. doi: 10.1590/s1413-81232008000600013.
More than half of the world's population is living in cities and the world is turning more and more urbanized. This literature review explores the ramifications of urban transformation, showing how cities take shape and impact human health in our times. While cities can offer positive opportunities, their negative impacts related to the lack of social organization, precarious urban living and working conditions, lack of governance and opportunities as well as the lack of strategies for promoting social equity tend to increase the adverse effects on the health of the urban communities. The article also advocates the study of urban health as a branch of knowledge related to public health, proposing a common conceptual model and taxonomy for urban health. Future directions for research and practice are discussed in the light of some examples from the Brazilian scientific literature.
世界上一半以上的人口居住在城市，全球正变得越来越城市化。这篇文献综述探讨了城市转型的影响，展示了城市在我们这个时代是如何形成以及如何影响人类健康的。虽然城市能提供积极的机遇，但它们在社会组织、不稳定的城市生活和工作条件、缺乏治理和机遇以及缺乏促进社会公平的策略等方面的负面影响，往往会增加对城市社区健康的不利影响。本文还主张将城市健康作为公共卫生相关的一个知识分支来研究，提出一个通用的城市健康概念模型和分类法。结合巴西科学文献中的一些实例，讨论了未来研究和实践的方向。
