Roundtable on urban living environment research (RULER)

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 793-857

  Vlahov, David ^a   Agarwal, Siddharth Raj ^b   Buckley, Robert M ^c   Caiaffa, Waleska Teixeira ^d   Corvalan, Carlos F ^e   Ezeh, Alex Chika ^f   Finkelstein, Ruth ^g   Friel, Sharon ⁱ   Harpham, Trudy ^j   Hossain, Maharufa ^k   De Faria Leao, Beatriz ^l   Mboup, Gora ^j   Montgomery, Mark R ^m   Netherland, Julie C ^a   Ompad, Danielle C ⁿ   Prasad, Amit ^o   Quinn, Andrew T ^h   Rothman, Alexander ^h   Satterthwaite, David E ^p   Stansfield, Sally ^o   Watson, Vanessa J ^q   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Urban Health Resource Center   (India)

^c ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^e PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

^f AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

^g New York Academy of Medicine ^*

^h NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^k United Nations Centre for Human Settlements Nairobi   (Kenya)

^l Population Council   (Brazil)

^m POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

ⁿ NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^p INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GROUP PROCESS; HEALTH; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH; URBAN POPULATION;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GROUP PROCESSES; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESEARCH; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84855332310     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: 14682869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-011-9613-2     Document Type: Review

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