Second Global Report on Urban Health

The report provides new evidence to empower readers to seek out and apply solutions to inequitable health conditions in urban areas. The new report deploys updated data and new approaches to equity analysis, and an orientation toward evidence of solutions. This includes exploration into the linkages between sectors beyond health, health in all policies approaches, and their impact on health equity in urban areas. The report sets the stage for how attention to urban health will contribute to achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The global report analyzes progress in urban health equity through the lens of the MDGs and the forthcoming SDGs. Comprehensive analysis of large multinational datasets provides the core of the analysis in up to 99 countries. The Urban Health Index methodology provides a baseline measure and spatial analysis of service coverage for universal health coverage. Partner contributions to the report deliver additional analysis with respect to access to key determinants of health in the urban environment, particularly those for which the evidence of solutions are the most scientifically compelling. This presentation provides an update of analysis to date.

The global report demonstrates that while considerable progress has been made in the achievement of the MDGs, progress has not been uniform. There continues to be a great need to build equity across the post-MDG agenda. Urban environments are venues of persisting health inequity as well as ideal venues of opportunity for advancing the post-MDG agenda. The final report will be available in late 2015.