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Handbook of urban health : populations, methods, and practice
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ISBN: 0387239944 9780387239941 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York: Springer,

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Urban health --- Urban Health


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Urban health issues : exploring the impacts of big-city living
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ISBN: 9798216031086 9798216160816 1440861722 9781440861727 9781440861710 1440861714 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York : Greenwood, Bloomsbury Publishing (US),

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Living in an urban environment can have a major influence-both positive and negative-on one's physical health and mental well-being. This book examines more than 20 key issues related to city living and what's being done to address them. According to recent statistics, 80.7 percent of Americans live in urban areas, and more than half of the world's population lives in cities. From various types of pollution to crime to overcrowding, the urban environment can have massive impacts on our physical, psychological, and social health and well-being. Moreover, while certain aspects of living in a city, such as access to health care, can improve the lives of many, other factors can have detrimental effects and can lead to inequalities along racial and socioeconomic lines. Urban Health Issues: Exploring the Impacts of Big-City Living examines 23 key issues related to urban health, exploring their causes and consequences in depth and highlighting what cities and individuals can do to safeguard the well-being of urban residents. It also draws comparisons between cities in the United States and the industrialized world and those in poor and developing nations, providing important global insights. The material is brought to life by fascinating city case studies and illuminating interviews with experts working in a variety of fields.

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Rapid Urban Growth in Flood Zones : Global Evidence since 1985
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Washington, District of Columbia : The World Bank,

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As countries rapidly urbanize, settlements are expanding into hazardous flood zones. This study provides a global analysis of spatial urbanization patterns and the evolution of flood exposure between 1985 and 2015. Using high-resolution annual data, it shows that settlements across the world grew by 85 percent to over 1.28 million square kilometers. In the same period, settlements exposed to the highest flood hazard level increased by 122 percent. In many regions, risky growth is outpacing safe growth, particularly in East Asia, where high-risk settlements have expanded 60 percent faster than safe ones. Developing countries are driving the recent growth of flood exposure: 36,500 square kilometers of settlements were built in the world's highest-risk zones since 1985-82 percent of which are in low- and middle-income countries. In comparison, recent growth in high-income countries has been relatively slow and safe. These results document a divergence in countries' exposure to flood hazards. Rather than adapting their exposure to climatic hazards, many countries are actively increasing their exposure.

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Urban Dynamics, Environment and Health : An International Perspective
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ISBN: 9819957443 Year: 2023 Publisher: Singapore : Springer,

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The urban health crisis : strategies for health for all in the face of rapid urbanization
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ISBN: 9241561599 Year: 1993

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Cities & health.
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ISSN: 23748834 Year: 2017 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Routledge, Taylor & Francis,

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Governing health and consumption : sensible citizens, behaviour, and the city
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ISBN: 1447302443 1283224453 9786613224453 1847426395 Year: 2011 Publisher: Bristol : Policy Press,

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This book critically explores the urban governance of healthy lifestyles and the contemporary problematisations of the obesity, sedentarism and alcohol epidemics.


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Urban Health : A Practical Application for Clinical Based Learning
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Library System,

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Urban Health: A Practical Application for Clinical Based Learning is an openly licensed, peer-reviewed textbook for clinical-based nursing educators covering barriers in urban health and their impact on patient health outcomes. The authors explore perspectives of urban communities, urban patients, and urban healthcare providers to offer insight into how healthcare providers can address disparities in urban healthcare, provide meaningful care with the lived experiences of urban patients in mind, and improve patient-provider communication by moving towards a more solution-driven, team-based care approach. Features include learning activities, exemplars, and case studies.


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Urban Health : A Practical Application for Clinical Based Learning
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Library System,

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Urban Health: A Practical Application for Clinical Based Learning is an openly licensed, peer-reviewed textbook for clinical-based nursing educators covering barriers in urban health and their impact on patient health outcomes. The authors explore perspectives of urban communities, urban patients, and urban healthcare providers to offer insight into how healthcare providers can address disparities in urban healthcare, provide meaningful care with the lived experiences of urban patients in mind, and improve patient-provider communication by moving towards a more solution-driven, team-based care approach. Features include learning activities, exemplars, and case studies.


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The topography of wellness : how health and disease shaped the American landscape
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ISBN: 081394631X Year: 2021 Publisher: Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press,

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"The COVID-19 pandemic has re-ignited discussions of how architects, landscapes, and urban planners can shape the environment in response to disease. This challenge is both a timely topic and one with an illuminating history. In The Topography of Wellness, Sara Jensen Carr offers a chronological narrative of how six epidemics transformed the American urban landscape, reflecting changing views of the power of design, pathology of disease, and the epidemiology of the environment. From the infectious diseases of cholera and tuberculosis, to so-called "social diseases" of idleness and crime, to the more complicated origins of today's chronic diseases, each illness and its associated combat strategies has left its mark on our surroundings. While each solution succeeded in eliminating the disease on some level, sweeping environmental changes often came with significant social and physical consequences. Even more unexpectedly, some adaptations inadvertently incubated future epidemics. From the Industrial Revolution to present day, this book illuminates the constant evolution of our relationship to wellness and the environment by documenting the shifting grounds of illness and the urban landscape"--

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Urban health --- History.

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