ABSTRACT
As the world becomes increasingly urbanised, the approach to health in urban environments has changed in recent decades. The Sustainable Development Goals and the emerging field of Planetary Health move beyond the Millennium Development Goals’ focus on reducing absolute poverty and improving access to healthcare systems towards a more integrated consideration of the relationship between the health of people and the health of the environments in which they live. This chapter will focus on four environmental factors that have a particularly strong influence urban health: food systems, sanitation, air pollution and green space.
