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Urbanization dynamics and WHOs healthy city initiatives in the South-East Asia Region

It is an accepted fact that the fast and skewed urbanization process that is presently taking place in the WHO South-East Asia (SEA) Region is becoming a powerful agent of change and is accompanied with economic opportunities, environmental threats and health challenges. The present paper examines primarily the process of urban dynamics and its health challenges in the SEA Region and how the