Urban Health Research in Africa: Themes and Priority Research Questions

Tolu Oni¹, Warren Smit², Richard Matzopoulos^{3

4}, Jo Hunter Adams⁵, Michelle Pentecost^{6

7}, Hanna-Andrea Rother⁸, Zulfah Albertyn⁹, Farzaneh Behroozi¹⁰, Olufunke Alaba⁵, Mamadou Kaba^{11

12}, Claire van der Westhuizen¹³, Maylene Shung King¹⁴, Naomi S Levitt¹⁵, Susan Parnell², Estelle V Lambert¹⁶; RICHE members

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¹ Division of Public Health Medicine, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. tolullah.oni@uct.ac.za.
² African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ Division of Public Health Medicine, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁴ Burden of Disease Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁵ Health Economics unit, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁶ Department of Anthropology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁷ Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁸ Division of Environmental Health and Centre for Environmental and Occupational Health Research, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁹ Children's Institute, Department of Paediatrics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹⁰ Primary Health Care Directorate, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹¹ Division of Health Economics, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹² Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹³ Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹⁴ Division of Health Policy and Systems, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹⁵ Chronic Disease Initiative for Africa and Division of Diabetic Medicine and Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹⁶ Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

PMID: 27184571
PMCID: PMC4987583
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-016-0050-0

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Urban Health Research in Africa: Themes and Priority Research Questions

Tolu Oni et al. J Urban Health. 2016 Aug.

. 2016 Aug;93(4):722-30.

doi: 10.1007/s11524-016-0050-0.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Division of Public Health Medicine, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. tolullah.oni@uct.ac.za.
² African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ Division of Public Health Medicine, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁴ Burden of Disease Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁵ Health Economics unit, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁶ Department of Anthropology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁷ Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁸ Division of Environmental Health and Centre for Environmental and Occupational Health Research, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁹ Children's Institute, Department of Paediatrics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹⁰ Primary Health Care Directorate, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹¹ Division of Health Economics, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹² Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹³ Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹⁴ Division of Health Policy and Systems, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹⁵ Chronic Disease Initiative for Africa and Division of Diabetic Medicine and Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹⁶ Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

PMID: 27184571
PMCID: PMC4987583
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-016-0050-0

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Erratum to: Urban Health Research in Africa: Themes and Priority Research Questions.
Oni T, Smit W, Matzopoulos R, Hunter-Adams J, Pentecost M, Rother HA, Albertyn Z, Behroozi F, Alaba O, Kaba M, van der Westhuizen C, Shung-King M, Levitt NS, Parnell S, Lambert EV; RICHE members. Oni T, et al. J Urban Health. 2016 Aug;93(4):731. doi: 10.1007/s11524-016-0064-7. J Urban Health. 2016. PMID: 27381454 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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Conceptual framework of public health approach to urban health research themes in Africa.

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