Esta guía operativa se basa en las mejores prácticas y ejemplos ilustrativos de ciudades y pueblos donde la Agencia de Refugiados de la ONU (ACNUR) trabaja actualmente con refugiados en zonas urbanas. El papel del ACNUR en el ámbito de la salud pública es más complejo y menos definido en contex...tos estatales, privados y organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG) locales e internacionales. El objetivo del ACNUR en las zonas urbanas es que los refugiados accedan a servicios de salud de calidad a un nivel similar al de los nacionales. El papel principal el ACNUR en las zonas urbanas es promover y facilitar que los servicios de salud de calidad estén disponibles para los refugiados y que puedan acceder a ellos.
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Environmental Pollution
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2013.05.046
The Urban Health Initiative (UHI) goes beyond improving access to health care and promoting healthy behaviours, and focuses on how to build cities that enable and encourage good health.
Economics plays a vital role in health policy-making and investments to reduce air pollution; in helping to understand the costs of health care; and in determining nations’ wealth and ability to invest in health and well-being..
How do security events affecting humanitarian agencies differ between urban and rural environments?
Pan African Medical Journal. 2016; 25:213 doi:10.11604/pamj.2016.25.213.88
Providing improved water supply to low-income urban communities is a difficult challenge faced by water utilities throughout Africa and Asia.
This guide provides an introduction to available options for serving these communities.
The guide draws on sector experience in general, and more particular...ly on WSUP’s extensive experience of implementing urban WASH programmes in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.
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Clean and sustainable household energy and appliances, for cooking, heating and lighting can improve health, increase productivity, reduce poverty and protect the environment while addressing air pollution.
Based on research by a team of Nepalese and international experts, this report carries an analysis of the five key elements in the sector - land, basic services, housing finance, building materials and construction technologies, and labour. It gives an assessment
of how these components are governe...d by policy, institutional and legal frameworks, and how they are linked with one another and other urban policies.
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Urban health / StadtGesundheit bezeichnet die Anwendung von Public Health -Theorie und - Praxis für die Gesundheit städtischer Bevölkerungen.