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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Carol Camp Yeakey; Vetta L. Sanders Thompson and Anjanette Wells Klappentext Urban Ills: Confronting Twenty First Century Dilemmas of Urban Living in GlobalContexts brings together original research by a wide array of interdisciplinary scholars to examine contemporary dilemmas impacting urban life in global contexts, following the latest global economic downturn. Focusing extensively on vulnerable populations, economic, social, health and community dynamics are explored as they relate to human adaptation to complex environments. Inhaltsverzeichnis Dedication PagePrefacePreface for Volume TwoIntroductionSection Three: Urban HealthChapter Sixteen: 'Place Matters:' Contextualizing Health Using a Social Determinants ModelChapter Seventeen: "Social Dis(ease) of African American Males and health"Chapter Eighteen: "Economic Contractions' Neglected Impact on African Americans' Mental Health"Chapter Nineteen: "Urban Poverty and Cardiovascular Disease Health"Chapter Twenty: "'Coming to America:' Mental Health Needs Among Undocumented Mexican Immigrants"Chapter Twenty -one: "The Intersect of Poverty and Health: Are Race and Class Far Behind?"Chapter Twenty-two: "The Flint (Michigan) Adolescent Study: A Longitudinal Examination of Social Support And Achievement Motivational Beliefs of African American Adolescents"Chapter Twenty-three: "Does Area Regeneration Improve Residents' Health and Well-being? A New Methodological Approach to Measuring the Health Impacts of Area Regeneration in Scotland"Chapter Twenty-four: "The Twenty First Century Gold Coast and Slum"Chapter Twenty-five: "Another Border to Cross: Mexican Immigrant Families and Obstacles to Neighborhood Integration in the Suburbs"Chapter Twenty-six: "The Relationship Between Mass Incidents and Social Inequality in the Social Transformation of China"Chapter Twenty-seven: "Housing and Identity in Postcolonial Portugal"Chapter Twenty-eight: "Exploring the Social Outcome of Brownfield Regeneration in Different types of Deprived Communities: Evidence from Manchester, England"Chapter Twenty-nine: "Disasters as Hyper-Marginalization: Social Abandonment in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans"Chapter Thirty: "Selling Out: The Study of the Transition from Rental Control to Market Rate Housing in New York City"Chapter Thirty-one: "Epilogue: Confronting the Dilemmas of Urban Living in Twenty First Century Global Contexts"...
