Abstract
Since the so-called urban turn in the year 2008, more than half of the population worldwide is living in cities. This is leading to a growing number of people whose health is being influenced by urban living conditions. Whereas a third of the urban population worldwide is currently living in small urban centres with a population of below 100,000, 16% lives in so-called emerging megacities (five to ten million inhabitants) and megacities (above ten million inhabitants); two thirds of these megacities are located in poor or newly industrializing countries (UN 2010). Megacities – especially in Asia and Africa – have grown at a very high pace over the last decades with many implications for the urban population.
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This research project is carried out in close cooperation with the Institute of Environment and Education of Bharati Vidyapeeth University in Pune/India. We would especially like to warmly thank Prof. Dr. Erach Bharucha and his research team for their very valuable support and advice.
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Kroll, M., Butsch, C., Kraas, F. (2011). Health Inequities in the City of Pune, India. In: Krämer, A., Khan, M., Kraas, F. (eds) Health in Megacities and Urban Areas. Contributions to Statistics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2733-0_17
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