"Urban Health" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The status of health in urban populations.
| Descriptor ID |
D014504
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N01.400.800
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| Concept/Terms |
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Urban Health".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Urban Health".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Urban Health" by people in this website by year, and whether "Urban Health" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2001 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2010 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2015 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2021 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Urban Health" by people in Profiles.
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Multisectoral interventions for urban health in Africa: a mixed-methods systematic review. Glob Health Action. 2024 12 31; 17(1):2325726.
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Asymptomatic transmission and high community burden of seasonal influenza in an urban and a rural community in South Africa, 2017-18 (PHIRST): a population cohort study. Lancet Glob Health. 2021 06; 9(6):e863-e874.
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Social vulnerability, parity and food insecurity in urban South African young women: the healthy life trajectories initiative (HeLTI) study. J Public Health Policy. 2021 Sep; 42(3):373-389.
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Consensus study on the health system and patient-related barriers for lung cancer management in South Africa. PLoS One. 2021; 16(2):e0246716.
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Approaches, achievements, challenges, and lessons learned in setting up an urban-based Health and Demographic Surveillance System in South Africa. Glob Health Action. 2021 01 01; 14(1):1874138.
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Fasting plasma glucose and risk factor assessment: Comparing sensitivity and specificity in identifying gestational diabetes in urban black African women. S Afr Med J. 2019 Dec 12; 110(1):21-26.
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Overcrowding and health in two impoverished suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa. BMC Public Health. 2019 Oct 24; 19(1):1358.
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Increases in statin eligibility to reduce cardiovascular risk according to the 2013 ACC/AHA cholesterol guidelines in the Africa Middle East region: a sub-analysis of the Africa Middle East Cardiovascular Epidemiological (ACE) study. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2019 03 15; 19(1):61.
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Curriculum and training needs of mid-level health workers in Africa: a situational review from Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda. BMC Health Serv Res. 2018 07 16; 18(1):553.
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Associations between dietary salt, potassium and blood pressure in South African adults: WHO SAGE Wave 2 Salt & Tobacco. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2017 Sep; 27(9):784-791.