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Lecture Materials

Module 1: The Urban Environment

> Lecture 1: A Framework for the Study of Urban Health (Abdullah Baqui)

> Lecture 2: Global Urbanization: Trends, Patterns, Determinants, and Impacts (Abdullah Baqui)

> Lecture 3: The Urban Environment and Health in Developing Countries (Abdullah Baqui)

> Lecture 4: The Urban Social Environment (William Brieger)

Module 2: Urban Health Issues

> Lecture 5: The Burden of Urban Ill-Health from Road Transport in Developing Countries (Adnan Hyder)

> Lecture 6: Urban Primary Health Care and Health Systems (Abdullah Baqui & William Brieger)

> Lecture 7: Urbanization and the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (William Moss)

> Lecture 8: Feeding Cities (William Brieger)

Module 3: Urban Intervention Case Studies

> Lecture 9: Municipalization and Urban Health: Tendencies in the Americas, Lessons Learned, and Challenges (Marilyn Rice)

> Lecture 10: Urban Health in India: A Case Study (Siddharth Agarwal)

> Lecture 11: Selected Strategies to Improve Access to and Quality of Urban Primary Health Care (Abdullah Baqui)

> Lecture 12: Urban Environment Case Study 2: Community Health Coalitions in Urban Nigeria, 1994-2005 (Brieger)

> Lecture 13: A Case Study on Participatory Budgeting in Latin America (Marilyn Rice)