Urban Health and Society Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice

by Freudenberg, Nicholas; Klitzman, Susan; Saegert, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780470383667
• ISBN10: 0470383666
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-20
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

This text prepares students in public health, urban studies, sociology, nursing, medicine, and other areas to investigate causes and solutions to complex urban health problems such as asthma, diabetes, obesity, depression, substance abuse, violence and others. The authors demonstrate interdisciplinary ways to study the causes and consequences of these critical urban health problems, with step-by-step guidance to combining methods. Addresses the intersection of two main themes: the growing urbanization of the world's population and the increased importance of interdisciplinary approaches to public health practice and research.

Author Biography

Nicholas Freudenberg is Distinguished Professor of Urban Public Health at Hunter College and of Social Psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where he directs the CUNY Doctor of Public Health Program.

Susan Klitzman is professor of Environmental Health and director of the Urban Public Health Program, Hunter College. She currently serves on the New York City Board of Health.

Susan Saegert is professor of Human and Organizational Development and director of the Center of Community Studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She is the former director of the Center for Human Environments and professor of Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Table of Contents

Preface

Preface

The Contributors

Introduction

Frameworks for Interdisciplinary Urban Health Research and Practice

Introduction

The Implications of Urban Life for Health

Levels and Types of Interdisciplinarity

Conundrums in Interdisciplinarity

Interdisciplinarity and Theories of Knowledge

Methodological Challenges and Approaches to Interdisciplinarity

Interdisciplinarity: Which Disciplines When?

Role Definitions in Interdisciplinary Research and Practice

Multiple Levels of Intervention

Summary

Environmental Justice Praxis: Implications for Interdisciplinary Urban Public Health

Environmental Justice and Public Health

The Built Environment, Urban Planning, and Urban Public Health

Environmental and Social Justice, Interdisciplinarity, and the Politics of Knowledge

Asthma and the Environmental Justice Campaign for a Solid Waste Plan in New York City

Asian Immigrant and Refugee Organizing for Environmental Health and Housing in the Bay Area

Conclusion

Summary

Interdisciplinary Approaches To Studying Causes Of Urban Health Problems

3

Introduction

Determinants of Retail Food Environments in Cities

Using CBPR to Understand Health Implications of DetroitÆs Food Environment

Directions for Future Research

Summary

An Ecological Model of Urban Child Health

Introduction

An Ecological Model

BronfenbrennerÆs Bioecological Model

Influences on ChildrenÆs Health in the Urban Context

Research Across Multiple Levels

Agenda for Future Research and Practice

Toward a Holistic Understanding of Urban Child Health

Summary

Geographic Information Systems, Environmental Justice, and Health Disparities

Introduction

Community-Based Participatory Research

Multilevel Models of Causation

Role of Geographic Information Systems

Environmental Justice and Health in the Bronx

Methods

Findings

Implications of Findings

Lessons on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Urban Health Research

Conclusion

Summary

Racial Inequality in Health and Policy-Induced Breakdown of African American Communities

Introduction

Racialized Ideologies: Developmentalism, Economism, and the American Creed

Implications for Public Policy

Building a Movement for Policy Reform

Summary

An Interdisciplinary and Social-Ecological Analysis of the U.S. Foreclosure Crisis as it Relates to Health

Housing and Health: WhatÆs the Connection?

The Social Ecology of Foreclosure

The Research and Its Context

Focus Group Analysis and the Emergence of Health as an Issue

Foreclosure and Public Health

Neoliberalism, the Foreclosure Crisis, and Health Consequences

Summary

Interdisciplinary Approaches To Interventions To Promote Urban Health

Transdisciplinary Action Research on Teen Smoking Prevention

Introduction

Review of Transdisciplinary Action Research

Transdisciplinary Action Research Cycle

Translating Transdisciplinary Research into Community Intervention and Policy

Factors Facilitating or Impeding Collaboration Among TPC Members

Implications and Lessons Learned from the TPC Study

Future Directions

Summary

How Vulnerabilities and Capacities Shape Population Health after Disasters

Social and Economic Determinants of Health After Disasters

Humanitarian Crises in Angola and the Balkans

Hurricane Katrina

September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks on New York City

Implications for Prevention and Intervention

Summary

Immigrants and Urban Aging: Toward a Policy Framework

The New Urban Demography: Baby Boomers and Immigrants

Economic and Social Influences on Aging and Health Policy

Social and Environmental Considerations

Toward a Conceptual Framework

A Public Health Research and Policy Agenda

Summary

Reversing the Tide of Type 2 Diabetes Among African Americans Through Interdisciplinary Research

A Dialogue Between Two Disciplines: Psychology and Medical Anthropology

Ethnic Identity and the Experience of Being African American with Type 2 Diabetes

Interdisciplinary Research Methods

Integrating Social Psychology and Medical Anthropology to Reduce the Burden of Diabetes

Summary

Putting Interdisciplinary Approaches Into Practice

Using Interdisciplinary Approaches To Strengthen Urban Health Research And Practice

Doing Interdisciplinary Research and Practice

Defining the Problem

Creating a Process for Interdisciplinary Work

Choosing Institutional and Community Partners

Influencing Policy and Practice

Evaluating Impact

Wanted: Interdisciplinary Researchers and Practitioners

Summary

Glossary

Index

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