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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...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
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. 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 gains new and greater urgency. Urban Helath 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, Urban Health offers a new, scalable framework for understanding h |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 437 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780190915841 0190915846 9780190915858 0190915854 |
| Index Number: | RA566 |
| CLC: | R126 |
| Call Number: | R126/U724-1 |
| Contents: |
Present and Future of Cities / Why cities and health? Cities as determinants of health / Health challenges and opportunities in cities -- Economic conditions / Reducing poverty, improving health / Housing / Transport and Health / Aging Populations / Climate change and the health of urban populations / Crime and criminal justice in cities / Improving access to healthy food in cities / Disasters / Methods and approaches to unserstanding health in cities -- Urban public health: a historical perspective / Systems science approach to urban health / Sociology / Urban planning: leveraging the urban planning system to sh Cells-to-society approaches / Social Networks / Urban Design / Urban land use and health / Community-based participatory research: an approach to research in the urban context / Case Studies in Urban Health -- The Healthy Cities Movement / Partnership for Healthy Cities: Activating Urban Governments as Engines of Public Health Practice / Cityhealth: policies for to Case Studies in urban health: Nairobi, Kenya / Observatory for urban health in Belo Horizonte city: an innovative and cross-sectoral collaboration in urban health / Rapid urbanization in China / Going biophilic buildings / Future of cities, the future of health -- City health departments: leading urban public health practic |