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The impact on health urban environments

David Satterthwaite

Human Settlements Programme of the Instituto Internacional de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo

The impact on healt of urban environments reviews the range and variety of environmental hazards present in urban areas including biological pathogens, chemical pollutants, physical hazards and psychosocial stressors and their impact on human health. It also discusses how and why it is low-income groups (and within such groups women and children) who generally bear most of the health burden.

Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 5, No. 2, 87-111 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/095624789300500208
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