In addition, it is said that the experience of childhood is becoming increasingly urban with more than a billion or nearly half of the world's children now living in cities and towns.2 It is estimated that by the year 2050, nearly seven in 10 people will live in urban areas.
Interestingly, while urban areas are considered to provide greater economic development in comparison to rural areas, the increasing and rapid pace at which migration is occurring from rural to urban areas has created some unequal advances and wide disparities on the socio-economic scale in terms of wealth, and has had a tremendous impact on the health needs of the children in our population.
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