Jose Siri and David Tan

Key messages

Experiences with a systems approach to urban health and wellbeing in the Asia-Pacific region underline the need to:

1.Understand and underscore the centrality of health in development by formalizing links between health and other sectors.

2.Move beyond simple indicators to a recognition of the consequences of complexity, and particularly of the dynamics of causal feedback loops.

3.Identify important cross-sectoral synergies and tradeoffs.

4.Promote inter- and trans-disciplinarity in science through new funding and evaluation criteria.

5.Create mechanisms and structures to improve the science/policy interface. 

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