This is also less about the 'what' and more about the 'how'. As technology enables more and more self-help, how do we educate so that people can prevent disease, assist with their own care, extend programs that take advantage of wearable data, and minimize safely their demands on health systems? How can we roll-out technology that can make our systems more efficient, such as in portable health records, management of prescriptions, single window approaches? Decrease duplication and reinvest where we need it most? Provide sustainable systems for an aging population?

Cities are starting to think about the impact of mental health - loneliness, compassion, mutual support systems. Dubai appointed a Minister of Happiness and in the UK, there is a Minister for Faith and a Minister for Loneliness. Clearly, cities may be full of people, but we still have a problem connecting to one another. ref:11&12

These challenges suggest that there is a great deal to do to support cities in their need to plan a more sustainable future.