At this meeting, more than fifty mayors and municipal directors were briefed on the impact of urbanization and urged to work on the development of an action plan to make sure poor urban children do not lag behind.
The potential risks of urbanization of the world's most populous nation, including the loss of arable land, the creation of poor urban enclaves, and the deterioration of residents' health outcomes, require a great deal of research and policy attention.
Urbanization is occurring at a rapid pace in Bangladesh (3.5% per year), with the majority of growth in poor urban slum areas [ 22].
Various factors are responsible for water scarcity in Comoro watersheds such as unfavorable topographical condition, rapid population growth and urbanization, poor knowledge, and lack of better water management practices.
The discussion group considered that current research shows that these risks have become a "new normal" of everyday life, with research revealing increasing hazard trends (for example, floods and droughts) and amplified impacts due to increased population exposure, rapid and unplanned urbanization, poor land use, climate change, vulnerable global supply chains, and economic activities.
Four extracted factors: "poor working environment", "urbanization and employment in the service sector", "industrial pollution", "economic wealth" accounted for 77.3%% of cumulative variance between the studied exposures.
The existence of many new factors – for example, the increased prevalence of obesity among all age groups and both sex physical inactivity, poor diet, and urbanization – means that the number of patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes is rising.
At greatest risk are the urban poor because of factors associated with urbanization including changing diets, lifestyles, and occupational structure [ 50- 52].
Although schistosomiasis is a disease typical of poor rural areas, intensified urbanization in recent decades has led to increasing numbers of urban cases and deaths (11, 15 ).
Many researchers have documented the surface and ground water depletion and pollution in India due to explosive growth and uneven distribution of population, poor irrigation practices, rapid urbanization, large-scale deforestation and improper land use practices (Jaiswal et al. 2003).
