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WHO pre-conference
For 2015, the World Health Organization Centre for Health Development (Kobe, Japan) will be hosting a free two-day pre-conference on Urban HEART, a user-friendly guide for local and national officials to identify health inequities and plan actions to reduce them.
For more information please email much@manchester.ac.uk.
Urban HEART
Urban HEART is a user-friendly guide for local and national officials to identify health inequities and plan actions to reduce them. Using evidence from WHO’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health, Urban HEART encourages policy-makers to develop a holistic approach in tackling health equity.
Since the launch of the pilot programme in 2008, Urban HEART has been pilot-tested in cities in Brazil, Indonesia, Islamic Republic of Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. By 2011, officials in nearly 50 countries have been trained on using Urban HEART.