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Informationen zum Autor Russell P. Lopez, MRP, DSc, has taught courses on the built environment and environmental health at Brown, Boston, and Northeastern Universities. He has published extensively on issues related to health equity and impacts of the built environment. Klappentext The Built Environment and Public HealthThe Built Environment and Public Health explores the impact on our health of the environments we build for ourselves, and how public health and urban planning can work together to build settings that that promote healthy living. This comprehensive text covers origins and foundations of the built environment as a public health focus and its joint history with urban planning, transportation and land use, infrastructure and natural disasters, assessment tools, indoor air quality, water quality, food security, health disparities, mental health, social capital, and environmental justice. The Built Environment and Public Health explores such timely issues as:* Basics of the built environment and evidence for its influences* How urban planning and public health intersect* How infrastructure improvements can address chronic diseases and conditions* Meeting the challenges of natural disasters* Policies to promote walking and mass transit* Approaches to assess and improve air quality and our water supply* Policies that improve food security and change how Americans get their food* How the built environment can address needs of vulnerable populations* Evidence-based design practices for hospitals and health care facilities* Mental health, stressors, and health care environments* Theories and programs to improve social capital of low-income communities* How the built environment addresses issues of health equity and environmental justiceThis important textbook and resource includes chapter learning objectives, summaries, questions for discussion, and listings of key terms.Companion Web site: www.josseybass.com/go/lopez Zusammenfassung This text combines an examination of how the physical environment affects our health with a description of how public health and urban planning can work together to create environments that improve human health and well-being. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xiThe Author xvPart One Background and History1 Introduction to the Built Environment and Health 3Dimensions of the Environment 4Is the Built Environment Really an Environmental Factor? 6How to Evaluate the Built Environment? 7Public Perceptions and Assumptions Regarding the Built Environment 8Cross-Disciplinary Nature of the Study of the Built Environment 9Placing the Analysis of the Built Environment into a Broader Context 11Influences on the Built Environment 132 History 17The Pre-Industrial Era 18The Era of Industrialization and Urbanization: 1825-1930 19Reform Movements, New Technologies, and Changes in Urban Planning and Architecture: 1825-1930 25Later Reforms and New Initiatives 1930-1980 32The Current Era: 1980-2010 and Beyond 38Part Two Community Design3 Planning and Urban Design 43Demographic, Economic, and Social Trends 44Land Use and Planning Controls 48Metropolitan Structure and Health 544 Transportation Policies 67Current Patterns of Transportation in the United States 68Automobiles and Health 73Highways and Health 77Mass Transit and Health 78Bike Safety and Infrastructure 81Walking and Health 825 Healthy Housing and Housing Assistance Programs 91The Housing Problem 92The Regulatory Framework 936 Infrastructure and Natural Disasters 115Natural Disasters: An Introduction 116Natural Disaster Response 125Part Three Environmental Media7 Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality 137Overview 137Land Use, the Built Environment, and Air Quality 139Air Pollutants 141Air Pollution-Associated Health Conditions 1498 Water 155Impact of Water on Health 155Infrastructure 157Drinking Water 1599 Food, Nutrition...
