Science Plan on Urban Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment - A Systems Approach

The ICSU ROAP established a Science Planning Group to produce a plan for the implementation of the ICSU plan on health and wellbeing in the changing urban environment. This Science Plan is the result of meetings held in Kuala Lumpur and China that examined urban life, health and disease profiles, all of which are rapidly changing and require novel integrated approaches towards improving policy-making and management of the new urban centres in Asia and the Pacific.

This Plan recognizes the constrains due to diversity in income level, culture, governance,capacity and most importantly availability of data for implementing a systems analysis approach in urban health planning and management in the region. Acknowledging the diversity in expertise and data availability between countries, this plan strives for feasible and implementable approaches that could be initiated without delay. Capacity building would be developed around a major activity in the region where policy makers, civil society, scientists, administrators and people from informal sectors need to interact and understand the strength and weaknesses of each individual approach,and to see how that understanding improves through a systems process.

Read the Science Plan on Urban Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment.