Urban Health

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.

List of contents

• Contributors


• Foreword


• SECTION 1: Why cities, why health


• 1. The present and future of cities


• Sandro Galea, Catherine K. Ettman, David Vlahov


• 2. Why cities and health? Cities as a determinant of health


• Catherine K. Ettman, David Vlahov, Sandro Galea


• SECTION 2: Health challenges and opportunities in cities


• 3. Economic conditions


• Atheendar S. Venkataramani, Alexander C. Tsai


• 4. Reducing poverty, improving health


• Sanjay Basu


• 5. Housing


• Roshanak Mehdipanah, Alexa K. Eisenberg, Amy J. Schulz


• 6. Transportation


• Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Haneen Khreis


• 7. Aging populations


• Kathleen A. Cagney


• 8. Children and adolescents in cities


• Shakira F. Suglia


• 9. Inequities in cities and in urban health


• Ben Brisbois, Patricia O'Campo, Janisha Kamalanathan


• 10. Migration


• Sabrina Hermosilla, Tahilia J. Rebello


• 11. Education


• Jennifer Karas Montez, Amy Ellen Schwartz


• 12. Healthy places to play, learn, and develop


• Renée Boynton-Jarrett


• 13. Pollution


• Jonathan M. Samet


• 14. Climate change and the health of urban populations


• Patrick L. Kinney


• 15. Crime and criminal justice in cities


• Matt Vogel, Steven F. Messner


• 16. Improving access to healthy food in cities


• Monica L. Wang, Marisa Otis


• 17. Disasters


• James M. Shultz


• SECTION 3: Methods and approaches to understanding health in cities


• 18. History


• Richard Rodger


• 19. A systems science approach to urban health


• Danielle C. Ompad, Yesim Tozan


• 20. Sociology


• Lei Jin, Eric Fong, Chenyu Ye


• 21.Urban planning: leveraging the urban planning system to shape healthy cities


• Helen Pineo, Nici Zimmermann, Mike Davies


• 22. Health services research: studying health care services in the city


• Michael K. Gusmano


• 23. Environmental Health Impact Assessment


• Carlos Dora


• 24. Multi-level perspectives on urban health


• Dustin T. Duncan, Yazan A. Al-Ajlouni, Ilgaz Hisirci, Basile Chaix


• 25. Cells-to-society approaches


• Guia Guffanti


• 26. Social networks


• Abby E. Rudolph


• 27. Urban design


• Oliver Gruebner, Layla McCay


• 28. Urban land use and health


• Rohan Simkin, Karen C. Seto


• 29. Community-based participatory research: an approach to research in the urban context


• Barbara A. Israel, Amy J. Schulz, Chris M. Coombe, Edith A. Parker, Angela G. Reyes, Zachary Rowe, Richard L. Lichtenstein


• SECTION 4: Case studies in urban health


• 30. The Healthy Cities movement


• Agis D. Tsouros


• 31. The Partnership for Healthy Cities: activating urban governments as engines of public health practice


• Ariella Rojhani, Charity Hung, Sally Chew, Christina Honeysett, Sandra Mullin, Adam Karpati


• 32. CityHealth: policies for today's urban health challenges


• Brian C. Castrucci, Elizabeth A. Corcoran, Shelley L. Hearne, Katie Keith, Elizabeth Voyles, Catherine Patterson


• 33. New York City: the Fit City example


• Karen Lee


• 34. Boston, a case study


• Russ Lopez


• 35. Richmond, CA: health equity in all urban policies


• Jason Corburn, Joseph S. Griffin


• 36. Case studies in urban health: Nairobi, Kenya


• Alex Ezeh, Blessing Mberu


• 37. Observatory for urban health in Belo Horizonte City: an innovative and cross-sectoral collaboration in urban health


• Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa, Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche


• 38. Rapid urbanization in China


• Brian J. Hall, Teng Ieng Leong, Wen Chen


• 39. Regional planning for health


• David Siscovick, Mandu Sen, Chris Jones


• 40. Going biophilic, living and working in biophilic buildings


• Jie Yin, John D. Spengler


• SECTION 5: The future of cities, the future of health


• 41. City health departments: leading urban public health practice


• Daniel Kass, Thomas Matte, Adam Karpati


• 42. City leadership for health, equity, and sustainable development


• Agis D. Tsouros


• 43. Teaching urban health


• Nicholas Freudenberg


• 44. Urban health: looking to the future


• David Vlahov, Catherine K. Ettman, Sandro Galea


• Index

About the author

Sandro Galea is Robert A. Knox Professor and Dean of the School of Public Health at Boston University. He is a past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and of the Interdisciplinary Society for Population Health Science, chair-elect of the board of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Catherine K. Ettman is Chief of Staff at the Boston University School of Public Health and a doctoral student at the Brown University School of Public Health. She is interested in the non-health policies that shape health in urban areas.

David Vlahov is Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the School of Nursing at Yale University. He is former Dean of the University of California School of Nursing, founding president of the International Society for Urban Health, editor of the Journal of Urban Health, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Summary

An essential collection that advances our understanding of how cities influence our health

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 faces a new and greater urgency.

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 aspects of the urban experience as a lens to study these exposures across borders and demographics, it offers a new, scalable framework for understanding health and disease. Its applications to public health, epidemiology, and social science are virtually unlimited.

Enriched with case studies that consider the state of health in cities all over the world, this book does more than capture the state of a nascent field; it holds a critical mirror to itself, considering the next decade and arming a new generation with the tools for research and practice.

Product details

• Authors: Sandro (Robert A. Knox Professor and Dean Galea
• Assisted by: Catherine K Ettman (Editor), Catherine K. Ettman (Editor), Catherine K. (Chief of Staff Ettman (Editor), Sandro Galea (Editor), Sandro (Robert A. Knox Professor and Dean Galea (Editor), David Vlahov (Editor), David (Professor and Associate Dean for Research Vlahov (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2019
• EAN: 9780190915841
• ISBN: 978-0-19-091584-1
• No. of pages: 456
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General