Urban Health: Major Opportunities For Improving Global Health Outcomes, Despite Persistent Health Inequities
by The Daily Eye Team April 1 2016, 3:06 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 30 secsNew data on the health of city-dwellers in almost 100 countries show that as the world’s urban population continues to grow, health inequities - especially between the richest and poorest urban populations - are a persistent challenge, according to a report by WHO and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme(UN-Habitat).
For example, only half of households in urban areas of 91 countries with comparable data have access to piped water, with the richest 20% of households being 2.7 times more likely to have access to piped water than the poorest 20%. In Africa, this ratio is closer to 17 times.