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As the world becomes increasingly urbanized, healthcare officials and policymakers face challenges of providing services and education to poor populations in cities and semiurban areas. Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas with some variation by region. In 2011, fully 3.6 billion people lived in urban areas. The United Nations projects that the world’s population will grow by 2.3 billion between 2011 and 2050, from 7.0 billion to 9.3 billion. All of that growth is expected to be in urban areas, which are projected to grow by 2.6 billion, from 3.6 billion in 2011 to 6.3 billion in 2050 (United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects: The 2011 Revision, 2012). “Thus, the urban areas of the world are expected to absorb all the population growth expected over the next four decades while at the same time drawing in some of the rural population” (United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects: The 2011 revision, p. 1, 2012). Africa is expected to be 50 % urban in 2035.
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Berzins, K., Greb, H., Young, M., Hardee, K. (2014). Urbanization, Population, and Health Myths: Addressing Common Misconceptions with Strategic Health Communication. In: Okigbo, C. (eds) Strategic Urban Health Communication. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9335-8_3
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