Policies adopted by municipal governments since 1997 in the areas of decentralisation and popular participation, poverty reduction, housing, low-income settlements, transport and public space are given particular attention.
"On the other hand, there hasn't been attention or focus on working with the provincial government to really work towards getting more low barrier harm reduction housing and health services".
Others centered primarily on targeting the social determinants of health, such as poverty reduction, housing and education support.
Participants also highlighted the need to further develop tobacco control policies and target the social determinants of health through poverty reduction, housing and education support.
People affected by the bedroom tax, or the reductions in housing benefit linked to the local housing allowance, don't have anywhere else to move: most evictions were in 16 London boroughs and the chances of finding a cheaper home nearby, whether socially renting or going into the private sector, are practically nil.
Those financial losses will be compounded for disabled claimants living in social housing, who from April will face potential reductions in housing benefit amounting to hundreds of pounds a year as a result of the so-called bedroom tax.
Reductions to housing assistance will take more than 110,000 families off Section 8 housing vouchers that help pay most of their rent.
With reductions in housing grants, we rely heavily on profits from selling and renting private housing to fund the development and refurbishment of affordable homes.
The shadow housing minister, John Healey, said: "Five years of deep cuts to homelessness services, reductions in housing benefit support, a failure to tackle soaring rents and funding for new social rented homes cut dramatically have all taken their toll.
Under the bedroom tax, which came in in April, social housing tenants of working age who are deemed to be occupying more bedrooms than they need face reductions in housing benefit of around £12 to £22 a week.
