Protecting health in dry cities: considerations for policy makers

BMJ. 2020 Oct 30:371:m2936. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m2936.

Authors

Howard Frumkin¹, Maitreyi Bordia Das², Maya Negev³, Briony C Rogers, Roberto Bertollini⁴, Carlos Dora⁵, Sonalde Desai⁶

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
² Global Programs (Urban, Resilience, Land), The World Bank, Washington DC, USA mdas@worldbank.org.
³ School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
⁴ Ministry of Public Health, Doha, Qatar.
⁵ Environmental Health Governance, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁶ Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

Abstract

Increasing health and wellbeing in cities that experience water scarcity presents challenges, but can be done, say Howard Frumkin and colleagues

MeSH terms

Child
Child Development
Cities
Climate Change
Communicable Diseases / etiology
Desert Climate
Environmental Pollution
Health Policy*
Health Promotion*
Hot Temperature
Humans
Mental Health
Noncommunicable Diseases
Policy Making
Poverty Areas
Urbanization
Water Supply*