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These proceedings of the Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference (SSC) in Moscow from May 23 to 26, 2018 addresses important questions regarding the global trend of urbanization. What are the environmental consequences of megacities’ expansion? What smart solutions can make life in cities safe, comfortable and environmentally friendly? It is projected that 70% of the global population will live in cities by 2050, and as such the book describes how this rapid urbanization will alter the face of the world. Focusing on solutions for the environmental problems of modern megapolises, it discusses advanced approaches and smart technologies to monitor, model and assess the environmental consequen...
The World Bank currently supports major Brazilian programs designed to improve maternal and child health and reduce infectious diseases and other basic health problems. This study focuses on the problems which the Brazilian health system will face in coming decades as the population gets older, and as chronic and degenerative diseases and AIDS increase. It concentrates on the causes of mortality. Although problems, such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers and injuries, have existed for centuries in Brazil, they have come into prominance as the epidemiologic and demographic transition is completed, and are referred to as "new" or "post-transition" problems in this report. This study concentrates on how the current health system operates, what new challenges it will face in the next few decades, and how it might deal with these challenges.
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