Housing improvement: a novel paradigm for urban vector-borne disease control?

Abstract

As the world's population crosses the 7.4 billion mark and urban areas become humanity's dominant landscape, there is a pressing need for strategically planning for future population growth in light of current trends in social inequality, accelerated climate change, extreme poverty and (re)emerging infectious diseases. On 25 September 2015, world leaders meeting at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:1 a blueprint for humanity's future rooted in a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This Agenda, which extends the original eight Millennium Development Goals through the 21st century, now includes SDGs addressing human rights, climate change, overexploitation of natural resources and sustainable urban growth.1 In including urbanization as a major SDG, world leaders have officially recognized the relevance of cities as catalyzers for current and future development. By 2050, it is estimated that more than 6.5 billion people (two-thirds of the human population) will live in urban areas.2 Thus, improving human health, reducing poverty and promoting sustainable development will be strongly tied to transforming the way urban spaces are built and how countries mitigate the impacts of climate change and address issues of poverty and infectious disease propagation.

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