Urban public health a research toolkit for practice and impact / [edited by] Gina S. Lovasi, Ana V. Diez-Roux, Jennifer Kolker.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Lovasi, Gina Shellenbaum. |
| Other author/creator | Diez Roux, Ana V. (Ana Victoria) |
| Other author/creator | Kolker, Jennifer. |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Contents | What is Urban Health? : Defining the Geographic and Substantive Scope -- Global Urbanization and Health Trends -- Conceptual Models and Frameworks for Understanding the Links Between Urban Environments and Health -- Urban Health Inequities -- Assessment of the Urban Environment : Measurement Scales, Modes, and Metrics -- Human Perceptions and Reflections on the Urban Context -- Characterizing and Mapping Health in Urban Areas -- Managing and Integrating Diverse Sources of Urban Data -- Analysis Strategies for Relating the Urban Environment to Health -- What Do We Know About What Works? : Synthesizing the Evidence -- Systems approaches to urban health -- Partnerships and Collaboration : An Urban Focus -- Community Engagement and Participatory Approaches for Urban Health -- Policy in Urban Health : The Power of Cities to Translate Science into Action -- Dissemination of Urban Health Research to Maximize Impact. |
| Abstract | "Any discussion about urban health will begin with the fact that most of humanity now lives in urban areas. About a decade into the 21st century, the urban portion of the global population surpassed 50 percent. This shift to majority urban will come last to Africa, where the rate of urban growth is the highest in the world. How has this centuries-long transformation in human settlement affected how we think about public health research and practice? The answer: not enough. Urban health has been a niche area, much as the climate crisis has been a niche area in environmental science. It is clear that this must change because urban is how people now live. URBAN PUBLIC HEALTH: A Research Toolkit for Practice and Impact is a valuable addition to the surprisingly slim number of books that investigate what urban health means and why its study is both distinct and important. Carefully crafted and thoughtful chapters grapple with the complexity of the urban setting as a physical and social space. The volume will appeal to a varied audience, including researchers, students and practitioners alike"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020017145 |
| ISBN | 9780190885304 (paperback) |
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