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Experiences with a systems approach to urban health and well-being in the Asia-Pacific region underline the need to: Understand and underscore the centrality of health in development by formalizing links between health and other sectors. Move beyond simple indicators to a recognition of the consequences of complexity, and particularly of the dynamics of causal feedback loops.
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Siri, J., Tan, D. (2020). A Systems Approach to Urban Health and Well-being Has Come of Age in the Asia-Pacific Region. In: Gatzweiler, F. (eds) Urban Health and Wellbeing Programme . Urban Health and Wellbeing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1380-0_2
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