Handbook of Global Urban Health. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Igor Vojnovic, Amber L. Pearson, Gershim Asiki, Geoff DeVerteuil, Adriana Allen.
• Editors: Vojnovic, Igor; Pearson, Amber L; Asiki, Gershim; DeVerteuil, Geoff; Allen, Adriana
• Contents: Contents Acknowledgments I) Urban Health: an introduction and overview 1) Introduction (Editors) 2) Urban health: A history Susan Craddock (Professor and Interim Director, Center for Bioethics / Institute for Global Studies / Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota) and Tim Brown (Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London) 3) Sin in the city: An urban history of medicine and modern morality in Turkey Emine Ö. Evered (Department of History, Michigan State University) and Kyle Evered (Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University) 4) Healthcare and the city: A North American perspective Mark Rosenberg (Department of Geography, Queen’s University) 5) Delivering urban health through urban planning and design Laurence Carmichael (Architecture and the Built Environment, University of the West of England) 2) HEALTHCARE POLICY AND URBAN HEALTH SERVICES 6) Cities, immigration, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Michael K. Gusmano (School of Public Health, Rutgers University) 7) Voluntary sector and urban health systems Andrew Power (Department of Geography, University of Southampton) and Mark Skinner (Professor of Geography, Trent University) 8) Urban policies and health in Latin America and the Caribbean S. 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 (Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte City, Brazil) 9) 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 Pauline Bakibinga (African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya) and Elizabeth Bakibinga-Gaswaga (Law Development at the Commonwealth Secretariat Headquarters, London) 10) Medical travel/tourism and the city Meghann Ormond (Cultural Geography, Wageningen University, Netherlands) and Heidi Kaspar (Careum Research, Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland) 11) Health system and immigrants: A focus on urban France Anne-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) 3) MENTAL hEALTH AND WELLBEING: AN URBAN CONTEXT 12) Urban mental health James Lowe (Geography, University of Southampton) 13) Children’s resilience and mental health in the urban context Maureen Mooney (School of Psychology, Massey University) 14) Welfare facilities and happiness of the elderly in urban Korea Danya Kim (Research Fellow Korean Culture & Tourism Institute) and Jangik Jin (Department of Real Estate, Graduate School of Tourism, Kyung Hee University) 15) Public space and pedestrian stress perception: Insights from Darmstadt, Germany Martin 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) 16) Cities and indigenous communitites: The health and wellbeing of urban Māori in Aotearoa, New Zealand John Ryks (Director, Aria Research), Naomi Simmonds and Jesse Whitehead (University of Waikato) 17) Landscape restructuring in the shrinking city and implications for mental health Jared Olsen, Lora Daskalska, Kelly Hoorman, Kirsten Beyer (Public and Community Health, Medical College of Wisconsin) 4) vulnerable URBAN populations 18) Challenges to public health in the favelas of metropolitan Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Alon 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, Universidade Federal Fluminens e) 19) 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 Carole 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) 20) Refugees and health: A European urban context Gordana Rabrenovic (Director of Brudnick Center on Violence, Northeastern University ), Danijela V. Spasic (Academy of Criminalistic and Police Studies, University of Belgrade) and Tibrine da Fonseca (Department of Anthropology & Sociology, Northeastern University) 21) Refugees and health in urban Africa Sheru Wanyua Muuo (African Population and Health Research Center, APHRC, Nairobi, Kenya) 22) A statewide comparison of Florida urban cancer rates Monghyeon Lee, Daniel Griffith and Yongwan Chun (School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas, Dallas) 23) African cities and Ebola Zacchaeus 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) 5) VIOLENCE AND INJURIES 24) Injuries in the city: A global perspective Marie-Soleil Cloutier (INRS-Montreal) and Andrew Howard (Professor, Departments of Surgery and Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto) 25) Alcohol availability and crime in post-disaster Christchurch, New Zealand: Implications for health in cities Gregory Breetzke (University of Pretoria, Department of Geography) and Amber L. Pearson (Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University) 26) Urban gun violence Jack McDevitt (Associate Dean of Research, Director, Institute of Race and Justice, Northeastern University) and Janice Iwama (Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston) 27) European street gangs and urban
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (826 pages), (75 illustrations)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315465432; 1315465434
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.