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.
Author(s): Sandro Galea, Catherine K. Ettman, David Vlahov
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 456
City: Oxford
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
SECTION I WHY CITIES, WHY HE ALTH?
1. The Present and Future of Cities
2. Why Cities and Health? Cities as Determinants of Health
SECTION II HEALTH CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN CITIES
3. Economic Conditions
4. Reducing Poverty, Improving Health
5. Housing
6. Transport and Health
7. Aging Populations
8. Children and Adolescents in Cities
9. Inequities in Cities and in Urban Health
10. Migration
11. Education
12. Healthy Places to Play, Learn, and Develop
13. Pollution
14. Climate Change and the Health of Urban Populations
15. Crime and Criminal Justice in Cities
16. Improving Access to Healthy Food in Cities
17. Disasters
SECTION III METHODS AND APPROACHES TO UNDER STANDING HEALTH IN CITIES
18. Urban Public Health: A Historical Perspective
19. A Systems Science Approach to Urban Health
20. Sociology
21. Urban Planning
22. Health Services Research
23. Environmental Health Impact Assessment
24. Multilevel Perspectives on Urban Health
25. Cells-to-Society Approaches
26. Social Networks
27. Urban Design
28. Urban Land Use and Health
29. Community-Based Participatory Research
SECTION IV CASE STUDIES IN URBAN HEALTH
30. The Healthy Cities Movement
31. The Partnership for Healthy Cities
32. CityHealth
33. New York City: The Fit City Example
34. Boston: A Case Study
35. Richmond, California: Health Equity in All Urban Policies
36. Case Studies in Urban Health: Nairobi, Kenya
37. Observatory for Urban Health in Belo Horizonte City
38. Rapid Urbanization in China
39. Regional Planning for Health
40. Going Biophilic: Living and Working in Biophilic Buildings
SECTION V THE FUTURE OF CITIES, THE FUTURE OF HEALTH
41. City Health Departments: Leading Urban Public Health Practice
42. City Leadership for Health, Equity, and Sustainable Development
43. Teaching Urban Health
44. Urban Health: Looking to the Future
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