Building healthy cities: the experience and challenges faced by China

Bingqin Li

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Abstract: Cities are crucial for China’s economic development. Further urbanisation is one of the key elements of post-central planning reform and is seen as the solution to rural poverty. However, as people concentrate in cities, they face various health challenges. These concern not only the provision of good health care services but also the prevention of disease, improving the quality of living environments and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Keywords: China; well-being; health; cities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 O18 P25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-11
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Published in Urban Age, November, 2011(11)

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