JHSPH Magazine Forum on Urban Health

Messages

• On 4/10/2007 at 11:20 PM, Eddy Michel from Montréal wrote:
  To improve urban health I think is to build a kind of synergy among all urban actors especially in African cities where they work quite separately with empahasis on a better implication of CBO's
• On 4/6/2007 at 8:09 AM, Dr Dheeraj Kattula from Vellore ,India wrote:
  The most underserved in urban context would be the poor especially the migrant labourers,who live in slums.State's action is a necessity in addition to work of NGOs .Health workers should be recuited,trained and paid for better utilization of services.People's participation should be to 'pay'a small fee for the services the use.A full time volunteer from a population which is not stable is not useful.
• On 4/4/2007 at 10:46 AM, Thacher Tiffany from Boston wrote:
  Trucks should have the same emissions regulations as cars. Their presence on city streets and suburban highways effects everyone.
• On 3/18/2007 at 11:11 AM, Eng Kimsan from CAMBODIA wrote:
  To improve the urban health, the city governors and communities have to realize the fact that humankinds needs a good environment as nature created for them. Therefore, they all must take account for their activities and living styles of which the moral and behavoral attitudes have to be changed towards the friendly manner and sustainable way. I hope this short comment will help a part to improve the urban health where you are living.
• On 3/2/2007 at 8:20 AM, ANANTA NIRAULA from USA wrote:
  IN THE CONTEXT NEPALESE SOCIETY: 1.GENERATING PUBLIC AWARENESS IN THE AREA OF DISEASE PROCESS 2.ESTABLISHING REGIONAL OR LOCAL FUND TO TACKLE LOCAL PROBLEMS 3.ESTABLISHING BASIC HEALTH CARE INFRASTRUCTURES SUCH AS HEALTH-POST, AND SAFE DRINKING WATER 4.ACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF NEPALESE EMBASSIES (AT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL)IN ENCOURAGING LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO CONTRIBUTE AND COORDINATING BETWEEN PUBLIC HEALTH PROJECTS IN NEPAL AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES 5.A LOT OF PLANTATIONS
• On 2/6/2007 at 3:15 AM, Anjali Radkar from India wrote:
  Urban heath is linked with crowding, homelessness, air, water and noise pollution, construction activity, cutting of trees, rising temperature. But all these are also associated with development. So is it the choice between health and development, where we want both...
• On 1/28/2007 at 7:47 PM, Bridget Benzing from Baltimore City Public Schools wrote:
  Inner city boarding schools to end the cycle of violence. More Boys of Baraka and start taking a realistic look at city schools and changing them from places of institutional racism to places that fosters round-the-clock learning. Focus on acknowledging multiple intelligences, mental health,nutrition,community connectedness through art and music, and anti-consumerism. Make big business step up to the plate to fund the Thorton Commission.Stop George Bush and the military industrial complex.Eat organic and reject Monsanto and their genetically modified food.Ride a bike and get to know your neighbors.
• On 1/19/2007 at 6:04 PM, Abraham Salinas from University Of South Florida wrote:
  Healthy Child Development through early intervention at the family level, such as those that improve parenting practices and child behavior. Environments free of chaos and caring relationships are key elements for such inteventions.
• On 1/14/2007 at 10:10 AM, Dr. Yeshwant Muley from Maharashtra, India wrote:
  The most important services is the health infrastructure and the grassroot level workers in the slums and low class communities. If we have them we can deliver and help the dwellers to get what they want i.e. the safe motherhood and the healthy childhood.
• On 1/5/2007 at 8:10 AM, Great Ebhojie from Nigeria wrote:
  the bottleneck in nigeria remains underfunding for urban health,poor renumeration,and shortage of manpower.