A demographic survey had estimated that in the year 2000 about half the human population would become urban citizens, most of them living in rapidly growing cities of Africa, Asia and Latin America and in abject poverty. The point of concern is that most of these people would lead very poor lives, worse than the rural poor. This problem can be addressed by attaining the highest possible level of health by strengthening the urban health systems and developing foolproof schemes to incorporate a wide range of factors pertaining to urban issues. This volume sheds light on this framework in a bi-sectional format. The first section focuses on the multifaceted factors influencing the health systems and urbanization while the second section deals with the healthcare system and urbanization in different countries of the world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Asis Kumar Pain
Asis Kumar Pain holds M.Phil and PhD degrees in Economics from The University of Burdwan, West Bengal. He is currently working as Consulting Editor at Icfai Business School Research Centre, Kolkata. Prior to joining Icfai, he worked on various transport related projects at the Centre for Transport Studies, Jadavpur University. He regularly contributes research papers to various refereed journals. Some of them include Indian Journal of Transport Management (Central Institute of Road Transport), Nagarlok (Indian Institute of Public Administration) and Icfai Journal of Management Research. His research area of interest is travel demand estimation using hierarchical modelling techniques.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sandipa Lahiri Anand
Sandipa Lahiri Anand is an MBA (Environment) from Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISWBM), Calcutta University; an M.Sc in Disaster Management from Sikkim Manipal University; and a Diploma holder in Industrial Pollution and Control from Annamalai University. She is also a certified Lead Auditor for Environment Standard. Earlier she worked as an Environment Consultant for four years in a leading lead-acid battery manufacturing industry and was instrumental in getting ISO 14001 for two of its factories. She was also associated with IISWBM, Kolkata as a Guest Faculty for postgraduate courses. Presently she is working as a Research Associate at the ICFAI Business School Research Center, Kolkata. Her areas of research interest are corporate social responsibility, health and safety, ergonomics, environment and other socio-economic issues in business and topics of national interest.
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