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. 2018 Oct 3:363:k3794.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.k3794.

Cities for global health

Majid Ezzati  1 , Christopher J Webster  2 , Yvonne G Doyle  3 , Sabina Rashid  4 , George Owusu  5 , Gabriel M Leung  6
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Cities for global health

Majid Ezzati et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

In the first of a new series of articles on the role of cities in health, Majid Ezzati and colleagues call for greater action to reduce health inequalities within cities

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare the following interests: None. This work is supported by the Wellcome Trust (grants 205208/Z/16/Z and 209376/Z/17/Z).

Figures

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Fig 1
Number of people living in rural areas and in cities in the world. Data are from the World Urbanization Prospects
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Fig 2
Life expectancy at birth in 2012 in London’s local authorities. Data are from Bennett et al
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Fig 3
Homes in poor (A) and wealthy (B) neighbourhoods of Accra, Ghana, showing the extent of inequality in housing and the living environment just kilometres apart
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Fig 4
The association between deprivation and density of fast food outlets across England’s local authorities (source: Public Health England)
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