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 | |
Interdisciplinary, Participatory Research on Urban Retail Food Environments and Dietary Behaviors | |
Introduction | |
Determinants of Retail Food Environments in Cities | |
Using CBPR to Understand Health Implications of Detroit's Food Environment | |
Directions for Future Research | |
Summary | |
An Ecological Model of Urban Child Health | |
Introduction | |
An Ecological Model | |
Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological Model | |
Influences on Children's 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: What's 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 | |
Juliana Fuqua, Daniel Stokols, Richard Harvey, Atusa Baghery | |
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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