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Urban Health Indicators And Indices- Current Status,, Richard Rothenberg, Christine E. Stauber, Scott Weaver, Dajun Dai, Amit Prasad, Megumi Kano

Public Health Faculty Publications

Though numbers alone may be insufficient to capture the nuances of population health, they provide a common language of appraisal and furnish clear evidence of disparities and inequalities. Over the past 30 years, facilitated by high speed computing and electronics, considerable investment has been made in the collection and analysis of urban health indicators, environmental indicators, and methods for their amalgamation. Much of this work has been characterized by a perceived need for a standard set of indicators. We used publication databases (e.g. Medline) and web searches to identify compilations of health indicators and health metrics. We found 14 …