Rapid urbanization in the global South is adding epidemiological and nutritional challenges and increasing disease and health burdens for citizens. Greater movement of people, animals, food and trade often provides favourable grounds for the emergence of infectious diseases, including zoonoses. We conduct a rapid evidence scan to explore what is known and hypothesized about the links between urbanization and zoonosis emergence. This points to rapid demographic growth, migration and density, increased movement of people and animals, and changes in land uses as the main processes linked to the prevalence of zoonosis in the urban global South. We argue that this emerging global health challenge is also deeply connected with the urbanization of poverty and inequalities within cities. Tackling the micro-level causal relationships between urbanization and zoonosis requires urgent attention to living conditions, as well as the wider socioenvironmental transitions and structural drivers that produce and reproduce risk accumulation in urban settings.

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城市化是否会使人畜共患病的发生可能性更大？证据，神话和空白。

全球南方地区的快速城市化正在增加流行病学和营养挑战，并给公民增加疾病和健康负担。人，动物，食物和贸易的频繁流动往往为包括人畜共患病在内的传染病的出现提供了有利的条件。我们进行了快速的证据扫描，以探索关于城市化与人畜共患病出现之间的联系的已知假设。这表明人口的快速增长，迁移和密度，人和动物的流动增加以及土地利用的变化是与全球城市南部人畜共患病流行相关的主要过程。我们认为，这一新兴的全球健康挑战也与贫困和城市内部不平等的城市化密切相关。