{"product_id":"handbook-of-global-urban-health-9781138206250","title":"Handbook of Global Urban Health","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives, and with an emphasis on exploring patterns as well as distinct and unique conditions across the globe, this collection examines advanced and cutting-edge theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the health of urban populations. Despite the growing interest in global urban health, there are limited resources available that provide an extensive and advanced exploration into the health of urban populations in a transnational context. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume offers a high-quality and comprehensive examination of global urban health issues by leading urban health scholars from around the world. The book brings together a multi-disciplinary perspective on urban health, with chapter contributions emphasizing disciplines in the social sciences, construction sciences and medical sciences. The co-editors of the collection come from a number of different disciplinary backgrounds that have been at the forefront of urban h\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This handbook will make a significant contribution to the public health literature; it stitches together the writings of leading researchers from multiple disciplines that make up the interdisciplinary field of global urban health in a very readable and easy to follow manner.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAyaz Hyder, review in \u003ci\u003eJournal of Urban Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI) Urban Health: an introduction and overview \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1) Introduction (Editors)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2) Urban health: A history \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Craddock \u003ci\u003e(Professor and Interim Director, Center for Bioethics \/ Institute for Global Studies \/ Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota)\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTim Brown (Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3) Sin in the city: An urban history of medicine and modern morality in Turkey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmine Ö. Evered (Department of History, Michigan State University) and Kyle Evered (Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4) Healthcare and the city: A North American perspective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Rosenberg (Department of Geography, Queen’s University)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5) Delivering urban health through urban planning and design\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaurence Carmichael (Architecture and the Built Environment, University of the West of England)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2) HEALTHCARE POLICY AND URBAN HEALTH SERVICES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6) Cities, immigration, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael K. Gusmano (School of Public Health, Rutgers University)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7) Voluntary sector and urban health systems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Power (Department of Geography, University of Southampton) and Mark Skinner (Professor of Geography, Trent University)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8) Urban policies and health in Latin America and the Caribbean\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eS. Claire Slesinski (Drexel Urban Health Collaborative), Adriana C. Lein (Drexel Urban Health Collaborative), Ana V. Diez Roux (Drexel Urban Health Collaborative), and Waleska T. Caiaffa \u003ci\u003e(Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte City, Brazil)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9) Access to healthcare for the urban poor in Nairobi, Kenya: Harnessing the role of the private sector in informal settlements and a human rights-based approach to health policy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePauline Bakibinga (African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya) and Elizabeth Bakibinga-Gaswaga \u003ci\u003e(Law Development at the Commonwealth Secretariat Headquarters, London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10) Medical travel\/tourism and the city\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeghann Ormond (Cultural Geography, Wageningen University, Netherlands) and Heidi Kaspar (Careum Research, Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11) Health system and immigrants: A focus on urban France\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne-Cécile Hoyez (CNRS Research Officer, UMR ESO, Université Rennes 2, France), Clélia Gasquet-Blanchard (Geography, the French School of Public Health, EHESP) and Céline Bergeon (Geography, University of Poitiers, France)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3) MENTAL hEALTH AND WELLBEING: AN URBAN CONTEXT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12) Urban mental health\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Lowe (Geography, University of Southampton)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13) Children’s resilience and mental health in the urban context \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaureen Mooney (School of Psychology, Massey University)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14) \u003cb\u003eWelfare facilities and happiness of the elderly in urban Korea\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDanya Kim (Research Fellow Korean Culture \u0026amp; Tourism Institute) and \u003ci\u003eJangik Jin (Department of Real Estate, Graduate School of Tourism, Kyung Hee University)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15) Public space and pedestrian stress perception: Insights from Darmstadt, Germany\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Knöll (Department of Architecture, Technical University of Darmstadt), Marianne Halblaub Miranda (Department of Architecture, Technical University of Darmstadt), Thomas Cleff (Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics, Pforzheim University), and Annette Rudolph-Cleff (Department of Architecture, Technical University of Darmstadt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16) Cities and indigenous communitites: The health and wellbeing of urban Māori in Aotearoa, New Zealand \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Ryks (Director, Aria Research), Naomi Simmonds and Jesse Whitehead (University of Waikato)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17) Landscape restructuring in the shrinking city and implications for mental health\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJared Olsen, Lora Daskalska, Kelly Hoorman, Kirsten Beyer (Public and Community Health, Medical College of Wisconsin)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4) vulnerable URBAN populations \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18) Challenges to public health in the favelas of metropolitan Rio de Janeiro, Brazil\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlon Unger (School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco), Lee W. Riley (Division of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, University of California, Berkeley), Robert E. Snyder (Division of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, University of California, Berkeley), and Claudete Araújo Cardoso (Infectious Diseases, \u003ci\u003eUniversidade Federal Fluminens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ee)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e19) Taking action to improve Indigenous health in the cities of Québec and elsewhere in Canada: the example of the Minowé Clinic at the Val-d'Or Native Friendship Centre\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarole Lévesque (Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Université du Québec), Édith Cloutier (Val-d’Or Native Friendship Centre), Ioana Radu (Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Université du Québec), Dominique Parent-Manseau (Val-d’Or Native Friendship Centre), Stéphane Laroche (Val-d’Or Native Friendship Centre), Natasha Blanchet-Cohen (Department of Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e20) Refugees and health: A European urban context\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGordana Rabrenovic (\u003ci\u003eDirector of Brudnick Center on Violence, Northeastern University\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eDanijela V. Spasic (Academy of Criminalistic and Police Studies, University of Belgrade) and Tibrine da Fonseca (Department of Anthropology \u0026amp; Sociology, Northeastern University)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e21) Refugees and health in urban Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheru Wanyua Muuo (African Population and Health Research Center, APHRC, Nairobi, Kenya)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e22) A statewide comparison of Florida urban cancer rates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonghyeon Lee, Daniel Griffith and Yongwan Chun (School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas, Dallas)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e23) African cities and Ebola \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZacchaeus Anywaine and Ggayi Abubaker Mustapher (Medical Research Council\/Uganda Virus Research Institute [MRC\/UVRI] and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine [LSHTM] Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5) VIOLENCE AND INJURIES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e24) \u003cb\u003eInjuries in the city: A global perspective \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarie-Soleil Cloutier (INRS-Montreal) and Andrew Howard (Professor, Departments of Surgery and Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e25) Alcohol availability and crime in post-disaster Christchurch, New Zealand: Implications for health in cities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregory Breetzke (University of Pretoria, Department of Geography) and Amber L. Pearson (Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e26) Urban gun violence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJack McDevitt (\u003ci\u003eAssociate Dean of Research, Director, Institute of Race and Justice, Northeastern University) and Janice Iwama (Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston) \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e27) European street gangs and urban violence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeir Irwin-Rogers (Criminology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University), Scott H. Decker (School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University), Amir Rostami (Department of Sociology, Stockholm University), Svetlana Stephenson (Sociology, London Metropolitan University) and Elke Van Hellemont (Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e28) Neighborhood recovery and community wellbeing in cities following natural disasters: Findings from Christchurch, New Zealand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVivienne Ivory, Chris Bowie, Clare Robertson (Opus International, New Zealand) and Amber L. Pearson (Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6) POLLUTANTS, ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND URBAN HEALTH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e29) Urban slums, drinking water and health: Trends and lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllis Adjei Adams (Georgia State University, Global Studies Institute), Heather Price (Stirling University) and Justin Stoler (University of Miami, Department of Geography)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e30) Environmental exposure disparities and gentrified inequities: A Seattle, Washington context \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonah White (Michigan State University) and Troy Abel (Western Washington University) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e31) Accessing air quality risk in an urban minority community: Williamsburg, Brooklyn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvan Ramirez (Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Denver), Ana Baptista (Milano School of International Affairs, The New School), Jieun Lee (Department of Geography and GIS, University of Northern Colorado), Ana Traverso-Krejcarek (El Puente) and Andreah Santos (Eugene Lang College, The New School)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e32) \u003cb\u003eAmbient air pollution, urbanization, and population health in Shanghai \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWei Tu (Department of Geology and Geography, Georgia Southern University), Zhijing Lin (School of Public Health, Fudan University), Haidong Kan (School of Public Health, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University) and Weichun Ma (Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7) PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ROLE OF the built environment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e33) Transport, urban regeneration and health: An issue across scale\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAngela Curl (Canterbury University) and Julie Clark (University of Liverpool)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e34) Rice, men, and other everyday anxieties: Navigating obesogenic urban food environments in Osaka, Japan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCindi SturtzSreetharan (School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University) and Alexandra Brewis (School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e35) The built environment, physical activity, and obesity: Exploring burdens on vulnerable U.S. populations \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIgor Vojnovic, Zeenat Kotval-K (Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University), Jieun Lee (Department of Geography and GIS, University of Northern Colorado), Jeanette Eckert (Office of Research Compliance, University of Toledo), Jiang Chang, Wei Liu, Xiaomeng Li and Arika Ligmann-Zielinska (Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e36) Public health challenges with Sub-Saharan African informal settlements: A case study of Malaria in Yaoundé\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoland Ngom (University of Calgary, Department of Geography, and Geoimpacts Consulting)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e37) Health oriented city development in Germany: Urban planning and design approaches going beyond professional boundaries \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAngela Million (Department for City and Regional Planning, Technical University of Berlin, Chair for Urban Design and Urban Development) and Andrea Ruediger (School of Spatial Planning, Department of City Planning, TU Dortmund)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e38) Flint, Michigan’s food crisis: Retail abandonment, social and economic burdens, and local food-oriented solutions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRick Sadler (Michigan State University, Division of Public Health, College of Human Medicine)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e39) Urban housing and public health: A Los Angeles study \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictoria Basolo and Edith Medina Huarita (Department of Policy, Planning and Design, University of California, Irvine)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577809473879,"sku":"9781138206250","price":204.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/handbook-of-global-urban-health-9781138206250","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}