Urban health equity assessment and response tool project [Urban HEART]: socioeconomic determinants and health status of people living Gezirat El Warak, Giza, Egypt
The Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART) is a userfriendly guide for policy-makers and decision-makers at national and local levels to identify and analyse inequities in health between people living in various parts of cities or belonging to different socioeconomic groups within and across cities. The tool facilitates decisions on viable and effective strategies, interventions and actions that should be used to reduce intercity and intracity health inequities. The main objective of this study was to identify the most common health determinants that affect the health of the population of unplanned residential slum areas in Gezirat El Warak, Giza, Egypt. The methodology of Urban HEART was adopted and used in this study.
Self Audit | 2012
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: City | Author/Publisher: WHO EMRO