ABSTRACT
It is an amazing fact that governments of the world, faced with rampant urbanisation, have not developed a strategy for the provision of health care in cities. In some 30 years four-fifths of the world population-in developed and developing countries, will be living in urban areas. This represents a steady growth for industrialised countries and a revolutionary change for most of the others. It is easy to predict that this change will bring new health problems or magnify those currently facing health care in an unprecedented manner: it is also probable that a well formulated plan of action to counter these problems might make it easier to deal with them.
