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    Urban environmental health: Respiratory illness and urban factors in Kuala Lumpur city, Malaysia
    (Thai Society of Higher Eduation Institutes on Environment, 2011) Oliver Ling Hoon Leh; Shaharuddin Ahmad; Kadaruddin Aiyub; Yaakob Mohd Jani; Ting Kien Hwa
    With increasing urbanisation, more people are now staying in urban built environments, even though the conditions of the urban environments may not be conducive to urban residents' health. However, with the lack of health data of urban residents, very few studies have been conducted to examine the relationship between urban factors and city residents' health especially in developing countries. Therefore, the objectives of this paper are to examine the rate of respiratory illness (acute respiratory infection and asthma) among residents of Kuala Lumpur City and also to investigate the relationship between the respiratory health rate and urban factors.,