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URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Approaches for promoting urban development:

1- Environmental health:

- Maintain safe water, food supply.
- Maintain sanitary sewage and drainage system as well as safe solid

waste.
- Avoid industrial pollution.

2- Health authority functions:

a- Leadership functions:

- Advocacy of measures that protect the health of the public.
- Fostering the community's capacity for actions by encouraging
community self-programs.

- Carry out health impact and risk assessment.

- Conducting epidemiological surveillance.

b- Advisory and participatory functions:

- Training personnel to identify, prevent, control environmental
health hazards.

- Carry out researches into health related environmental problems

3- The Ministry of Health and population's role:

 Providing health information for those concerned with the

management of environmental health activities.
 Linking environmental data with health status.

 Focusing on the occupational health as a specific.

4- Political commitment:

- An improvement in the health condition of the urban poor will
only come about if there is a real political commitment to change.

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