Urban public health : a research toolkit for practice and impact

Urban public health : a research toolkit for practice and impact / edited by Gina S. Lovasi, Ana V. Diez Roux, and Jennifer Kolker.

"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 growt...

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Other Authors: Lovasi, Gina Schellenbaum (Editor), Diez Roux, Ana V. (Ana Victoria) (Editor), Kolker, Jennifer (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Urban health.
Social medicine.
Cities and towns.
cities.
Social medicine
Cities and towns
Urban health
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Introduction to urban health: What is urban health? Defining the geographic and substantive scope / Ana V. Diez Roux ; Global urbanization and health trends / Ana V. Diez Roux ; Conceptual models and frameworks for understanding the links between urban environments and health / Ana V. Diez Roux ; Urban health inequities / Ana V. Diez Roux
  • Part II. Identifying and collecting data for urban health research: Assessment of the urban environment : measuring scales, modes, and metrics / Gina S. Lovasi ; Human perceptions and reflections on the urban context / Gina S. Lovasi and Stephen E. Lankenau ; Characterizing and mapping health in urban areas / Gina S. Lovasi and Steve Melly
  • Part III. Tools for working with urban health data: Managing and integrating diverse sources of urban data / Gina S. Lovasi and Steve Melly ; Analysis strategies for relating the urban environment to health / Gina S. Lovasi ; What do we know about what works? Synthesizing the evidence / Gina S. Lovasi and Rosie Mae Henson ; Systems approaches to urban health / Ana V. Diez Roux and Ivana Stankov
  • Part IV. From evidence into action: Partnerships and collaboration : an urban focus / Jennifer Kolker and Amy Carroll-Scott ; Community engagement and participatory approaches for urban health / Amy Carroll-Scott ; Policy in urban health : the power of cities to translate science into action / Jennifer Kolker ; Dissemination of urban health research to maximize impact / Jennifer Kolker, Claire Slesinski, Amy Carroll-Scott, and Jonathan Purtle.

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