PULSE (Participatory Urban Living for Sustainable Environment) is a pioneer EU-financed
project that aims to develop a set of models and technologies to predict and manage public
health problems in cities and promote health.It aims to develop and test dynamic spatiotemporal health impact assessments using geolocated population-based data.

The causes of health inequalities are complex. For the reduction of health inequalities, intersectoral collaboration between the public health sector and both social policy sectors (e.g. youth affairs, education) and physical policy sectors (e.g. housing, spatial planning) is essential, but in local practice difficult to realize. The aim of this study was to examine the collaboration between the sectors in question more closely and to identify opportunities for improvement.

As the urban population of the planet increases and puts new stressors on infrastructure and institutions and exacerbates economic and social inequalities, public health and other disciplines must find new ways to address urban health equity.
Urban indicator processes focused on health equity can promote new modes of healthy urban governance, where the formal functions of government combine with science and social movements to define a healthy community and direct policy action.
An inter-related set of urban health equity indicators that capture the social determinants of health, including community assets, and track policy decisions, can help inform efforts to promote greater urban health equity.
Adaptive management, a strategy used globally by scientists, policy makers, and civil society groups to manage complex ecological resources, is a potential model for developing and implementing urban health equity indicators.
Urban health equity indicators are lacking and needed within cities of both the global north and south, but universal sets of indicators may be less useful than context-specific measures accountable to local needs

The Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health is the ultimate resource on the subject of public health and epidemiology. It has been thoroughly revised and updated, offering a global and comprehensive perspective on wide-ranging public health needs and priorities in modern health care. It is divided into three areas: 'The Scope of Public Health' discusses the development of the discipline, determinants of health and disease, public health policies, and law and ethics;

Report to the European Commission 2018

In total, more than 50 SDG indicators have been agreed
upon internationally to measure health outcomes, proximal
determinants of health or health-service provision (1). These
health-related indicators may be grouped into the following
seven thematic areas:
• reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health
• infectious diseases
• noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health
• injuries and violence
• universal health coverage (UHC) and health systems
• environmental risks
• health risks and disease outbreaks.

The World Health Statistics series is WHO’s annual compilation of health statistics for its 194 Member States. The
series is produced by the WHO Department of Information, Evidence and Research, of the Health Metrics and
Measurement Cluster, in collaboration with all relevant WHO technical departments.

This is a short practical guide on how to involve patients across all stages of healthcare research. It is aimed at people writing applications
for European Union (EU) healthcare research projects or who have had a proposal funded and are in the project development stage.
You may find it useful to refer to throughout your project.
These top tips for successful patient involvement come from the experience of the Patient Input Platform (PIP) of the U-BIOPRED project
(Unbiased BIOmarkers in PREDiction of respiratory disease outcomes), which is supported by the Innovative Medicines Initiative.

Existing codes of practice for patient involvement with various stakeholders do not comprehensively cover the full scope of research and development (R&D). The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has developed a comprehensive framework of interaction with patients and consumer organisations since 2006. The European Patients’ Academy (EUPATI) guidance documents aim to support the integration of patient involvement across the entire process of medicines research and development with regulatory agencies, health technology assessment (HTA) bodies, ethics committees and the pharmaceutical industry.

According to recent statistics on natural disaster, the frequency of occurrence of fire
disasters, possibly climate-driven, is growing on a
global basis. Growth is accompanied by decrease of
the number of large fires per year, and increase of
average individual surfaces burnt in severe wildfires. In such conditions, standard emergency planning
proves inadequate as generic information does not
allow responders distributing the available resources,
selecting unavailable resources that are actually
needed, and prioritizing the interventions in space
and time.