TABLE 2.

Emerging health issues: notional variation with urban development

Problem type	Varies with urban growth	Changes with spread in city growth	Presents risk for the poor	Varies with age and gender
Communicable diseases	High	Somewhat	High	Somewhat
Traffic injuries	High	Somewhat	High	High
Violence	Somewhat	Somewhat	High	High
Obesity	Somewhat	Low	High	High
Unsafe settlements	High	High	High	Somewhat

Source: The table summarizes from the literature covered earlier in the article the direction and strength of relationship (high, somewhat, low) between each of the categories of burden (rows) and the key features of future urban growth (columns).