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Community partnership

Near East Foundation

Macroeconomics and Health

National Health Accounts

Millennium Development Goals

World Health Organization (headquarters)

United Nations Development Programme

United Nations site for the MDG Indicators

Poverty reduction and sustainable development

World Health Organization (headquarters)

Chronic Poverty Research Centre

Social determinants of health

World Health Organization (headquarters)

Gender and health

World Health Organization (Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean)

World Health Organization (headquarters)

World Health Organization (Pan American Health Organization)

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

South African Medical Research Council

Centre for Health and Gender Equity

Urbanization and health

The State of Arab Cities 2012, Challenges of Urban Transition

Featured publications

healthy_city_guide A short guide to implementing the healthy city programme [pdf 1.82Mb]
Arabic [pdf 4.31Mb] | French [pdf 3.44Mb]

Community-based initiatives newsletter, Volume 7, issue 2 [pdf 4.53Mb]

All community-based initiatives publications

Information resources

Information resources

Towards making every city a healthy city

Statistics and figures

Unemployment rates among selected countries:

Afghanistan	38%
Iraq	25%
occupied Palestinian territory	23%
Somalia	47%
Sudan	16%

Countries in complex emergency have the highest rates of under-five underweight:

Afghanistan	30.9%
Djibouti	29.6%
Pakistan	31.3%
Sudan	31.7%
Somalia	32.8%
Yemen	43.1%

Percentage of population living in urban areas (2009) is 49%.

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