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This collection of essays, written by urban planners, scholars, medical practitioners, and activists, examines the impact of urban living on the well-being of women and girls in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the United States.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword -Amy Gutmann Introduction: Developing Urban Areas as if Gender Matters -Afaf Ibrahim Meleis PART I: WOMEN'S HEALTH IN URBAN AREAS Chapter 1. Women's Health and the City: A Comprehensive Approach for the Developing World -Julio Frenk and Octavio Gomez-Dantes Chapter 2. Policy for a Better Future: A Focus on Girls and Women -Ruth Levine Chapter 3. Girls' Health and Educational Needs in Urban Environments -Varina Tjon-A-Ten, Brad Kerner, Shweta Shukla, and Anne Hochwalt Chapter 4. Making Cities Safe for Women and Girls: Integrating a Gender Perspective into Urban Health and Planning -Claudia Garcia-Moreno and Manupreet Chawla PART II: URBANIZATION, SPACE, AND GEOGRAPHY Chapter 5. Design of Healthy Cities for Women -Eugenie L. Birch Chapter 6. Are Women Victims, or Are They Warriors? -Sheela Patel Chapter 7. Women with Disabilities and Cities -Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo Chapter 8. The Health and Well-Being of Immigrant Women in Urban Areas -DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias PART III: MODELS OF EXCELLENCE Chapter 9. Women's Health in the Urban Community: National Institutes of Health Perspective -Vivian W. Pinn and Nida H. Corry Chapter 10. Transforming Urban Environments -Diane Cornman-Levy, Grace Dyrness, Jane Golden, David Gouverneur, and Jeane Ann Grisso Chapter 11. Bearing Witness: Women in Cities as Agents of Transformation for God -Grace R. Dyrness Chapter 12. Accessibility to Health Care in Urban Environments -Francisca M. Mwangangi Chapter 13. Mobilizing Communities to Prevent Violence Against Women and HIV in Kampala, Uganda -Tina C. Musuya Chapter 14. Philanthropy and Its Impact on Urban Women's Health -Katherina M. Rosqueta and Carol A. McLaughlin Afterword -Susan M. Wachter Notes List of Contributors References Index Acknowledgments
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Afaf Ibrahim Meleis is Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing and Professor of Nursing and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and the author of Theoretical Nursing: Development and Progress. Eugenie L. Birch is Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education and Chair of the Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Susan M. Wachter is Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Real Estate and Finance at The Wharton School and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Together, Birch and Wachter direct the Penn Institute for Urban Research and are the coeditors of many books, including Global Urbanization, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
