Urban Health

by Hynes, H. Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780763752453
• ISBN10: 0763752452
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: JONES & BARTLETT PUBLISHERS

Summary

New responses To The urban environment have arisen in the late 20th and early 21st centuries; responses that provide grounded and cohesive insights and plans of action to confront social inequality, health disparity, and environmental injustice in U.S. cities.  Urban Health  is a collection 13 articles that document action from these incisive and dimensioned responses. The authors introduce each set of articles with their own insightful analysis. These critical writings on the social, built, and physical environment offer a paradigm of environment protection that is rooted in civil rights for social and racial equality that considers the environment as the place where people live, work, play, and pray. Features: Articles are written by a diverse group of respected scholars and practitioners. Each section (the social environment; the built environment; the physical environment) is introduced by the authors to give the text a cohesive, unifying framework. Supplementary teaching materials include class projects to give instructors the flexibility of using a project-based course format.

Table of Contents

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The Social Environment	p. 1
The Age of Extremes: Concentrated Affluence and Poverty in the Twenty-First Century	p. 5
Health Inequities in the United States: Prospects and Solutions	p. 37
To Mitigate, Resist, or Undo: Addressing Structural Influences on the Health of Urban Populations	p. 65
Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy	p. 79
The Built Environment	p. 99
Housing and Health: Time Again for Public Health Action	p. 101
Indoor Environments and Health: Moving into the 21st Century	p. 129
Urban Sprawl and Public Healdi	p. 141
Obesity, Physical Activity, and the Urban Environment: Public Healdi Research Needs	p. 169
The Physical Environment	p. 187
Healdi, Wealth, and Air Pollution: Advancing Theory and Methods	p. 191
Examining Urban Brownfields through the Public Health "Macroscope"	p. 217
A Current Appraisal of Toxic Wastes and Race in the I United States - 2007	p. 237
Urban Horticulture in the Contemporary United States: Personal and Community Benefits	p. 261
Cities: The Vital Core	p. 277
Article Credit Lines	p. 283
Index	p. 287
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