On November 15, 2010, the World Health Organization (“WHO”) will host a three-day Global Forum on Urbanization and Health in Kobe, Japan.
Those gathering at the Global Health Forum include municipal leaders, national authorities and key stakeholders, convening to promote health, including health equity, in urban settings.
Urbanization: a setting ripe with health challenges
With increasing global urbanization grows health challenges. Overcrowded settlements often thirst for sanitized water, where risks for outbreaks and spread of infectious diseases lie in waiting, and erupt. Tuberculosis, cholera and diarrhea among them.