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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 6 June 2019

    • ISBN 9780190915858
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages456 pages
    • Size 160x239x30 mm
    • Weight 771 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    An essential collection that advances our understanding of how cities influence our health

    Urban Health connects urban exposures -- the experiences, choices, and behaviors shaped by living in a city -- to their impact on population health. By using the ubiquitous urban experience as a lens to study these exposures across borders and demographics, this book offers a new, scalable framework for understanding health and disease. Its applications to public health, epidemiology, and social science are virtually unlimited.

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    Long description:

    An essential collection that advances our understanding of how cities influence our health

    More than half the world's population lives in cities -- a figure that will grow to two-thirds by 2030. As global populations rapidly consolidate around urban centers, the scientific understanding of what this means for human health faces a new and greater urgency.

    Urban Health connects urban exposures -- the experiences, choices, and behaviors shaped by living in a city -- to their impact on population health. By using the ubiquitous aspects of the urban experience as a lens to study these exposures across borders and demographics, it offers a new, scalable framework for understanding health and disease. Its applications to public health, epidemiology, and social science are virtually unlimited.

    Enriched with case studies that consider the state of health in cities all over the world, this book does more than capture the state of a nascent field; it holds a critical mirror to itself, considering the next decade and arming a new generation with the tools for research and practice.

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    Table of Contents:

    Contributors
    Foreword
    SECTION 1: Why cities, why health
    1. The present and future of cities
    Sandro Galea, Catherine K. Ettman, David Vlahov
    2. Why cities and health? Cities as a determinant of health
    Catherine K. Ettman, David Vlahov, Sandro Galea
    SECTION 2: Health challenges and opportunities in cities
    3. Economic conditions
    Atheendar S. Venkataramani, Alexander C. Tsai
    4. Reducing poverty, improving health
    Sanjay Basu
    5. Housing
    Roshanak Mehdipanah, Alexa K. Eisenberg, Amy J. Schulz
    6. Transportation
    Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Haneen Khreis
    7. Aging populations
    Kathleen A. Cagney
    8. Children and adolescents in cities
    Shakira F. Suglia
    9. Inequities in cities and in urban health
    Ben Brisbois, Patricia O'Campo, Janisha Kamalanathan
    10. Migration
    Sabrina Hermosilla, Tahilia J. Rebello
    11. Education
    Jennifer Karas Montez, Amy Ellen Schwartz
    12. Healthy places to play, learn, and develop
    Renée Boynton-Jarrett
    13. Pollution
    Jonathan M. Samet
    14. Climate change and the health of urban populations
    Patrick L. Kinney
    15. Crime and criminal justice in cities
    Matt Vogel, Steven F. Messner
    16. Improving access to healthy food in cities
    Monica L. Wang, Marisa Otis
    17. Disasters
    James M. Shultz
    SECTION 3: Methods and approaches to understanding health in cities
    18. History
    Richard Rodger
    19. A systems science approach to urban health
    Danielle C. Ompad, Yesim Tozan
    20. Sociology
    Lei Jin, Eric Fong, Chenyu Ye
    21.Urban planning: leveraging the urban planning system to shape healthy cities
    Helen Pineo, Nici Zimmermann, Mike Davies
    22. Health services research: studying health care services in the city
    Michael K. Gusmano
    23. Environmental Health Impact Assessment
    Carlos Dora
    24. Multi-level perspectives on urban health
    Dustin T. Duncan, Yazan A. Al-Ajlouni, Ilgaz Hisirci, Basile Chaix
    25. Cells-to-society approaches
    Guia Guffanti
    26. Social networks
    Abby E. Rudolph
    27. Urban design
    Oliver Gruebner, Layla McCay
    28. Urban land use and health
    Rohan Simkin, Karen C. Seto
    29. Community-based participatory research: an approach to research in the urban context
    Barbara A. Israel, Amy J. Schulz, Chris M. Coombe, Edith A. Parker, Angela G. Reyes, Zachary Rowe, Richard L. Lichtenstein
    SECTION 4: Case studies in urban health
    30. The Healthy Cities movement
    Agis D. Tsouros
    31. The Partnership for Healthy Cities: activating urban governments as engines of public health practice
    Ariella Rojhani, Charity Hung, Sally Chew, Christina Honeysett, Sandra Mullin, Adam Karpati
    32. CityHealth: policies for today's urban health challenges
    Brian C. Castrucci, Elizabeth A. Corcoran, Shelley L. Hearne, Katie Keith, Elizabeth Voyles, Catherine Patterson
    33. New York City: the Fit City example
    Karen Lee
    34. Boston, a case study
    Russ Lopez
    35. Richmond, CA: health equity in all urban policies
    Jason Corburn, Joseph S. Griffin
    36. Case studies in urban health: Nairobi, Kenya
    Alex Ezeh, Blessing Mberu
    37. Observatory for urban health in Belo Horizonte City: an innovative and cross-sectoral collaboration in urban health
    Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa, Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche
    38. Rapid urbanization in China
    Brian J. Hall, Teng Ieng Leong, Wen Chen
    39. Regional planning for health
    David Siscovick, Mandu Sen, Chris Jones
    40. Going biophilic, living and working in biophilic buildings
    Jie Yin, John D. Spengler
    SECTION 5: The future of cities, the future of health
    41. City health departments: leading urban public health practice
    Daniel Kass, Thomas Matte, Adam Karpati
    42. City leadership for health, equity, and sustainable development
    Agis D. Tsouros
    43. Teaching urban health
    Nicholas Freudenberg
    44. Urban health: looking to the future
    David Vlahov, Catherine K. Ettman, Sandro Galea
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