Both fields fails to account for economic, social, and political factors that contribute to public health disparities. Some challenges in uniting the two fields to account for public health disparities are:

- how to increase attention to public health effects of land uses
- how to develop a coordinated, multidisciplinary approach toward eliminating health disparities
- how to create an urban health agenda which addresses the socioeconomic position and social determinants of health in urban areas




Challenges in Uniting Urban Planning and Public Health

Urban planning is the technical and political process that focuses on the functionality and hierarchical ordering of land use that tended to separate residential areas from other industrial land uses. Proper use of urban planning can eliminate health inequalities between the poor and the wealthy.


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- Establish characterizations for potential high-risk interfaces that exist along gradient of urbanization and identify processes that led to their formation
- Describe the biological organization and community ecology at these interfaces, conduct surveillance for priority zoonotic pathogens and study the evolutionary processes underlying cross-species transmission
- Develop appropriate interventions that can be used to reduce risk of transmission



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