The urban burden of disease estimation for policymaking
UBDPolicy
is an EU-funded project estimating the health and socioeconomic costs and benefits of living in an urban environment across nearly 1,000 cities in the EU. It measures the impacts of air quality, noise pollution, the lack of urban green spaces, heat and temperature variations, physical activity, and social inequities. The project is monitoring three-year trends of these factors and how urban planning, transport planning, and environmental policies affect them.
HEAL, a project partner of UBDPolicy, is supporting these efforts by
- Engaging with local decision-makers, researchers, and experts on urban health to assess the health impacts of environmental threats and climate change, and the benefits of city-level action
- Collecting and sharing good practices for urban areas to help strengthen evidence-based policymaking at city, national, and EU levels.
- Developing policy recommendations for urban and transport planning, as well as, climate and environmental measures, to improve public health at city level
Project duration: 2023-2026
Project partners
UBDPolicy brings together six partners from six European countries, coordinated by the Barcelona institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).
Part of the METEOR cluster, UBDPOLICY collaborates with five other research projects to better understand the health-related costs of environmental stressors.
