1. Achieving Health Equity in Urban Settings

   • Tord Kjellstrom
   • Susan Mercado
   • Soichiro Iwao

   OriginalPaper Open access 20 April 2007 Pages: 1 - 6

2. Urban Poverty: An Urgent Public Health Issue

   • Susan Mercado
   • Kirsten Havemann
   • Hiroshi Ueda

   EditorialNotes Open access 27 April 2007 Pages: 7 - 15

   

3. Urban as a Determinant of Health

   • David Vlahov
   • Nicholas Freudenberg
   • Sandro Galea

   OriginalPaper Open access 14 March 2007 Pages: 16 - 26

4. Urbanization and Slum Formation

   • Giok Ling Ooi
   • Kai Hong Phua

   OriginalPaper Open access 27 March 2007 Pages: 27 - 34

5. Income and Health in Cities: the Messages from Stylized Facts

   • Shahid Yusuf
   • Kaoru Nabeshima
   • Wei Ha

   OriginalPaper Open access 21 March 2007 Pages: 35 - 41

6. Social Determinants of the Health of Urban Populations: Methodologic Considerations

   • Danielle C. Ompad
   • Sandro Galea
   • David Vlahov

   OriginalPaper Open access 26 April 2007 Pages: 42 - 53

   

7. Emerging Disease Burdens and the Poor in Cities of the Developing World

   • Tim Campbell
   • Alana Campbell

   OriginalPaper Open access 24 April 2007 Pages: 54 - 64

8. The Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS, TB and Vector-borne Diseases in Informal Settlements: Challenges, Opportunities and Insights

   • Annette M. David
   • Susan P. Mercado
   • Frederick Mugisha

   OriginalPaper Open access 12 April 2007 Pages: 65 - 74

9. Improving Health and Building Human Capital Through an Effective Primary Care System

   • Albert Lee
   • Andrew Kiyu
   • Jorge Jimenez

   OriginalPaper Open access 14 March 2007 Pages: 75 - 85

   

10. Urban Environmental Health Hazards and Health Equity

    • Tord Kjellstrom
    • Sharon Friel
    • Jamie Bartram

    OriginalPaper Open access 21 April 2007 Pages: 86 - 97

11. The Design of Housing and Shelter Programs: The Social and Environmental Determinants of Inequalities

    • Shaaban Sheuya
    • Philippa Howden-Chapman
    • Sheela Patel

    OriginalPaper Open access 27 March 2007 Pages: 98 - 108

    

12. Climate Change and Developing-Country Cities: Implications For Environmental Health and Equity

    • Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum
    • Carlos Corvalán

    OriginalPaper Open access 28 March 2007 Pages: 109 - 117

13. The Health Equity Dimensions of Urban Food Systems

    • Jane Dixon
    • Abiud M. Omwega
    • Rachel Carlisle

    OriginalPaper Open access 02 April 2007 Pages: 118 - 129

    

14. Social Capital and Healthy Urbanization in a Globalized World

    • Pat Pridmore
    • Liz Thomas
    • Lisa Wood

    OriginalPaper Open access 31 March 2007 Pages: 130 - 143

    

15. Cities and Calamities: Learning from Post-Disaster Response in Indonesia

    • Josef Leitmann

    OriginalPaper Open access 14 March 2007 Pages: 144 - 153

16. Emerging Strategies for Healthy Urban Governance

    • Scott Burris
    • Trevor Hancock
    • Andre Herzog

    OriginalPaper Open access 27 April 2007 Pages: 154 - 163

    

17. Integrated Approaches to Address the Social Determinants of Health for Reducing Health Inequity

    • Franςoise Barten
    • Diana Mitlin
    • Ruth Stern

    OriginalPaper Open access 29 March 2007 Pages: 164 - 173