Abstract
Introduction Rapid urbanization in developing countries has prompted debate on urban health research and policy in the last decade. Due to the fact that poverty (in both relative and absolute terms) is the root cause of most of the burden of disease in cities and that changes in urban social relations also contribute to ill health, the debate has also included consideration of social factors in health. This paper briefly describes urbanization in developing countries, summarizes recent urban health research, examines changes in health policy in cities in developing countries, discusses the main themes of current social policy (using the new development agenda of the UK aid programme as an example), and considers the new linkages that are required between health policy and social policy in order to address urban health problems.
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