{"title":"Observatory for Urban Health in Belo Horizonte City","authors":"W. Caiaffa, A. Friche","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190915858.003.0037","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Belo Horizonte Observatory for Urban Health is a partnership of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, with the Belo Horizonte Municipality. The Observatory is engaged in a wide range of studies in urban health, including projects that aim to reduce the emergence and reemergence of disease and to study the behavioral influences on health and the role of the social determinants of health. This chapter discusses the work of the Belo Horizonte Observatory, highlighting its core projects and the lessons learned that can inform urban health scholarship and action worldwide.","PeriodicalId":76783,"journal":{"name":"Urban health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Urban health","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190915858.003.0037","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Belo Horizonte Observatory for Urban Health is a partnership of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, with the Belo Horizonte Municipality. The Observatory is engaged in a wide range of studies in urban health, including projects that aim to reduce the emergence and reemergence of disease and to study the behavioral influences on health and the role of the social determinants of health. This chapter discusses the work of the Belo Horizonte Observatory, highlighting its core projects and the lessons learned that can inform urban health scholarship and action worldwide.