Urban Health Resource Centre

• Oakland, CA, Nov. 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- National nonprofit Peer Health Exchange (PHE) is expanding an incentivized peer-to-peer education program in high schools.
• College-aged Peer Mentors, who formerly taught PHE health curriculum in the classroom, train high schoolers to teach their peers.
• High School Peer Facilitators undergo comprehensive training that covers the curriculum, professional development, public speaking skills, as well as knowledge of general public health and local health resources.
• "Our peer-to-peer program empowers students to make a positive impact on their peers' lives by sharing valuable health knowledge and fostering a sense of community."

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• Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest death rate in the world: 27 in 1,000 newborn babies (1,067,000).
• This is 11 times higher than in countries with the lowest rates (2 deaths in 1,000), such as Australia and New Zealand.
• Over the past decades, newborn mortality has been markedly lower in urban compared to rural settings in sub-Saharan Africa.
• This “urban advantage” has been linked to better socioeconomic and living conditions, higher literacy among women and better access to healthcare services.

First things first

• In the 2016 national household survey, the distinctions between rural and urban were made from historical and administrative boundaries.
• This may no longer reflect the lived reality since the boundaries do not correspond to the physical space where interactions between economic and social activities happen.
• With the advantage of satellite imagery, we could more precisely identify lived environments, including population, land use and cover, and extent of built-up areas.

Mortality

• We found similar results when we looked only at newborn mortality (babies born alive).
• For every 1,000 live births, 22 newborn babies died in the first month of life in rural areas, 25 in semi-urban areas and 40 in core urban areas.
• Previous research has shown that the leading causes of newborn deaths are prematurity, low birth weight, birth asphyxia and infectious diseases.

Next steps

• Policy areas for action should include: Urbanisation: policies to address the expansion of urban informal settlements are a place to start.
• For example, in Dar es Salaam, an estimated 80% of the land or settlements is informal.
• This might hamper the quality of care provided for the reasons outlined quite apart from poor sanitation practices.
• From this starting point, policymakers can then draw lessons from existing projects found to improve urban maternal and perinatal health.

• LONDON, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Breathable Cities is on a mission to seek out UK startups improving air quality in cities and urban neighbourhoods.
• "We're excited to support the Breathable Cities accelerator programme.
• The Breathable Cities accelerator programme is open to applications from a wide range of industry startups who are already building innovations that tackle air pollution and clean air inequity in cities.
• For more information or interviews with representatives from Impact on Urban Health, Growth Studio or Breathable Cities partners, please contact Gaby Jesson ( [email protected] ).