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Why do we need an urban health agenda that prioritizes children and adolescents in Latin America?

Abstract:

As actors from different sectors working on improving children and adolescents’ lives in Latin American cities, we remark the importance of revisiting the urban health agenda prioritizing children and adolescents’ health for more equitable, sustainable, and healthy societies. We provide supporting reasons for this related to the growing evidence on 1) the influence urban environments have on health disparities early in life; 2) the key role urban environments played for children and adolescents during first stages of the pandemic; 3) the potential urban interventions targeted to children and adolescents have on reducing disparities among them and urban population in general.