Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice

Nicholas Freudenberg, Susan Klitzman, Susan Saegert

John Wiley & Sons, Jul 8, 2009 - Medical - 352 pages

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

Contents

• IMPLICATIONS: 19
• Waste Plan in New York City: 29
• PART: 43
• AN ECOLOGICAL MODEL OF URBAN CHILD HEALTH: 63
• GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENTAL: 93
• RACIAL INEQUALITY IN HEALTH AND THE POLICYINDUCED: 127
• AN INTERDISCIPLINARY AND SOCIALECOLOGICAL: 161
• PART THREE: 183
• HOW VULNERABILITIES AND CAPACITIES SHAPE: 217
• TOWARD: 239
• REVERSING THE TIDE OF TYPE 2 DIABETES AMONG: 271
• PART FOUR: 293
• GLOSSARY: 319

About the author

The Editors

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice; Public Health/Vulnerable Populations
• Editors: Nicholas Freudenberg, Susan Klitzman, Susan Saegert
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2009
• ISBN: 0470483032, 9780470483039
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Medical / General; Medical / Public Health