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Healthy cities or unhealthy islands? The health and social implications of urban inequality

Carolyn Stephens

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK. Tel: (44) 171 927 2308; fax: 44 171 580 4524 C.Stephens{at}LSHTM.AC.UK

This paper suggests that governments and international agencies must address the large and often growing levels of inequality within most cities if health is to be improved and poverty reduced. It describes the social and health implications of inequalities within cities and discusses why descriptions of the physical symptoms of poverty (and their health implications) are more common than analyses of the structural systems which produce and perpetuate poverty. It also describes the health problems from which low-income groups in urban areas suffer more than richer groups including those that are not linked to poor sanitary conditions and those that are more linked to relative poverty (and thus the level of inequality) than to absolute poverty.

Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 8, No. 2, 9-30 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/095624789600800211
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