Screen LibraryDesigning healthy communities
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Jossey-Bass,
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| Publisher Address: | San Francisco |
| Publication Dates: | c2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxxi, 230 p., [16] p. of plates: ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 19 x 26 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781118033661 1118033663 |
| Index Number: | TU984 |
| CLC: | TU984.712 |
| Call Number: | TU984.712/J138 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. "Designing Healthy Communities is Dr. Richard J. Jackson's call to action for all of us concerned with the health trends that are beginning to overwhelm the country. It is a companion book for the upcoming special PBS broadcast that describes how the design of the built environment impacts our health, with an additional emphasis on the inequities of social and environmental justice. In this book, Dr. Jackson explores how the built environment has contributed to the fact that two-thirds of Americans are overweight, 70 million are obese and many suffer from an array of other chronic but preventable diseases. The book and series looks upstream at the root causes of our malaise ... |