Urban Health Resilience: Strategies for Strengthening Public Health Systems in Response to Urbanization Challenges
The social structure of India is rapidly evolving, towards modernization. The urban population of India is projected to approach 60 crores by 2036. Urban health resilience stands for building the capacity of urban systems to withstand and adapt to health-related stresses like natural disasters, man-...
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| author | Medha Mathur Varun J. Wani Rivu Basu Priya Manihar Mohammad Waseem Faraz Ansari Navgeet Mathur Shaili Vyas Smrutiranjan Nayak Anjana Verma Surendra Singh |
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| description | The social structure of India is rapidly evolving, towards modernization. The urban population of India is projected to approach 60 crores by 2036. Urban health resilience stands for building the capacity of urban systems to withstand and adapt to health-related stresses like natural disasters, man-made disasters, and pandemics like COVID-19 and the capability to recover from them by well-equipped hospitals, efficient emergency response mechanisms, and a network of well-trained and motivated healthcare professionals. Also, the involvement of communities is central to building urban health resilience. Strong policy frameworks are required for establishing a resilient urban health ecosystem. Addressing social determinants, such as income inequality, education, and housing, is also a basis of building urban health resilience. Some examples have been instrumental in designing a resilient urban health system like Singapore’s Smart Nation Initiative, Copenhagen, Denmark’s Model for Sustainable Urban Living internationally, Ahmedabad’s Heat Action Plan and Kochi’s Waterfront Development for Climate Resilience are excellent examples from our country. The suggested strategy for an urban resilient system is a Rapid, Extensive, Sturdy, Ingenious, Lucid approach with an International collaboration for an Enthusiastic, Non-latent, Continuous Early warning system (RESILIENCE). |
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| spelling | doaj-art-22c90ec1dadc4a3b8c39c06b7c6c06152025-01-07T06:06:04ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsIndian Journal of Community Medicine0970-02181998-35812024-12-0149Suppl 2S159S16310.4103/ijcm.ijcm_755_24Urban Health Resilience: Strategies for Strengthening Public Health Systems in Response to Urbanization ChallengesMedha MathurVarun J. WaniRivu BasuPriya ManiharMohammad Waseem Faraz AnsariNavgeet MathurShaili VyasSmrutiranjan NayakAnjana VermaSurendra SinghThe social structure of India is rapidly evolving, towards modernization. The urban population of India is projected to approach 60 crores by 2036. Urban health resilience stands for building the capacity of urban systems to withstand and adapt to health-related stresses like natural disasters, man-made disasters, and pandemics like COVID-19 and the capability to recover from them by well-equipped hospitals, efficient emergency response mechanisms, and a network of well-trained and motivated healthcare professionals. Also, the involvement of communities is central to building urban health resilience. Strong policy frameworks are required for establishing a resilient urban health ecosystem. Addressing social determinants, such as income inequality, education, and housing, is also a basis of building urban health resilience. Some examples have been instrumental in designing a resilient urban health system like Singapore’s Smart Nation Initiative, Copenhagen, Denmark’s Model for Sustainable Urban Living internationally, Ahmedabad’s Heat Action Plan and Kochi’s Waterfront Development for Climate Resilience are excellent examples from our country. The suggested strategy for an urban resilient system is a Rapid, Extensive, Sturdy, Ingenious, Lucid approach with an International collaboration for an Enthusiastic, Non-latent, Continuous Early warning system (RESILIENCE).https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_755_24infrastructure gapspublic health infrastructureurban health |
| spellingShingle | Medha Mathur Varun J. Wani Rivu Basu Priya Manihar Mohammad Waseem Faraz Ansari Navgeet Mathur Shaili Vyas Smrutiranjan Nayak Anjana Verma Surendra Singh Urban Health Resilience: Strategies for Strengthening Public Health Systems in Response to Urbanization Challenges Indian Journal of Community Medicine infrastructure gaps public health infrastructure urban health |
| title | Urban Health Resilience: Strategies for Strengthening Public Health Systems in Response to Urbanization Challenges |
| title_full | Urban Health Resilience: Strategies for Strengthening Public Health Systems in Response to Urbanization Challenges |
| title_fullStr | Urban Health Resilience: Strategies for Strengthening Public Health Systems in Response to Urbanization Challenges |
| title_full_unstemmed | Urban Health Resilience: Strategies for Strengthening Public Health Systems in Response to Urbanization Challenges |
| title_short | Urban Health Resilience: Strategies for Strengthening Public Health Systems in Response to Urbanization Challenges |
| title_sort | urban health resilience strategies for strengthening public health systems in response to urbanization challenges |
| topic | infrastructure gaps public health infrastructure urban health |
| url | https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_755_24 |
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