Urban Health and Society : Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice

by Editor: Nicholas Freudenberg; Editor: Susan Klitzman; Editor: Susan Saegert

• ISBN13: 9780470483039
• ISBN10: 0470483032
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-07-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Praise for Urban Health and Society"This is a spectacular resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and students interested in improving the lives and health of individuals and families in urban settings. This book provides the most current frameworks, research, and approaches for understanding how unique features of the urban physical and social environments that shape the health of over half of the world's population that is already residing in large cities. Its interdisciplinary research and practice focus is a welcome innovation." -Hortensia Amaro, associate dean, Urban Health Research; Distinguished Professor, Bouve College of Health Sciences; and director, Institute on Urban Health Research, Northeastern University"Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice provides students in public health, urban planning, social work, and other professions with the critical knowledge and practical guidance they need to work as effective members of interdisciplinary teams aimed at studying and addressing urban health problems. Throughout the chapters, the book's attention to community participation, social justice, and equity as well as interdisciplinary research methods make it an invaluable resource." -Barbara A. Israel, professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan"The book will be of great interest to academics, politicians, planners, and public health professionals attempting to understand or reduce urban health risks, create safe urban environments, and deliver effective and sustainable health services and programs to urban populations." -Stephen Lepore, professor and PhD program director, Department of Public Health, Temple University

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

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

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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