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Urban Health in Developing Countries

Author : Marcel Tanner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134171382
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Urban Health in Developing Countries written by Marcel Tanner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of urbanization on the health of citizens in developing countries has received increasing attention recently. This book addresses the problems in an integrated way, looking in detail at both the problems themselves and the action and research necessary to alleviate them. It includes contributions from leading practitioners and advisors to many of the main international agencies and presents the latest thinking of those institutions. It also presents recent information on research findings, the management and financing of urban health services and trends in urban health policy. Case studies examine major initiatives in cities as diverse as Santiago, Dar es Salaam, Dhaka, Kampala and Bombay.

Urban Health in Developing Countries

Author : Trudy Harpham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853832857
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Urban Health in Developing Countries written by Trudy Harpham and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of urbanization on the health of citizens in developing countries has received increasing attention recently. This book addresses the problems in an integrated way, looking in detail at both the problems themselves and the action and research necessary to alleviate them. It includes contributions from leading practitioners and advisors to many of the main international agencies and presents the latest thinking of those institutions. It also presents recent information on research findings, the management and financing of urban health services and trends in urban health policy. Case studies examine major initiatives in cities as diverse as Santiago, Dar es Salaam, Dhaka, Kampala and Bombay.

Spotlight on the Cities

Author : I. Tabibzadeh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spotlight on the Cities written by I. Tabibzadeh and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Healthy City Projects in Developing Countries

Author : Edmundo Werna
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113418090X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Book Synopsis Healthy City Projects in Developing Countries by : Edmundo Werna

Download or read book Healthy City Projects in Developing Countries written by Edmundo Werna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the growth of cities and towns throughout the developing world have come significant health problems. The urban poor are particularly affected, faced with the worst of both worlds: urban problems such as pollution and stress, combined with infectious diseases common in both rural and urban areas. The Healthy City Project shows how to put health high on the agenda of urban officials, integrating it into all other planning and development decisions. Healthy City Projects in Developing Countries presents a comprehensive account of this very important and increasingly influential initiative. Drawing on experience in a range of cities it shows how to design, implement and evaluate the integration of public health into urban management. The results will be very significant to all those making and implementing urban policies, as well as those working in and on public health, urban development and environmental issues.

Handbook of Urban Health

Author : Sandro Galea
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387258221
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Urban Health written by Sandro Galea and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors are two of the most prominent researchers in this area. Both are at the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies. David Vlahov is particularly visible and known as the editor of the Journal of Urban Health. Sandro Galea is very prominent for his research on urban health; in particularly, research done on PTSD and children post-9/11. Thorough analysis of different populations in urban settings and specific health considerations Useful section on methods for the research audience. Applied in nature with section on prevention and interventions There are over 100 urban health centers in North America and there are no thorough, up-to-date ressources.

Urban Public Health

Author : Gina S. Lovasi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190885319
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Urban Public Health written by Gina S. Lovasi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, we know cities as shared spaces with the potential to both threaten and promote human health: while urban areas are known to amplify the transmission of epidemics like Ebola, urban residency is also associated with longer, healthier lives. Modern cities encompass a wide ecology of infrastructures, institutions and services that impact health, from access to improved sanitation and early childhood education to the design of buildings and transportation systems. So how has this centuries-long transformation in human settlement affected the mindset surrounding public health research and practice? Urban Public Health is an interdisciplinary collaboration from experts across the globe that approaches the issue of urban health research from a uniquely public health orientation. The carefully crafted and thoughtful chapters in this volume grapple with the complexity of the urban setting as a physical and social space while also providing an abundance of global and local examples of current urban health practices. Urban Public Health is divided into four pragmatic sections which cover core conceptual models of public health and their inequities, methods of urban health research assessment, methods of urban health research analysis and explanation, and ultimately, opportunities for urban health research to inform action through partnership and collaboration, including those which elevate community voices and capacities. An accessible guide for both students and researchers alike, Urban Public Health shines a light on how to understand, measure and change the urban setting so that cities grow, people thrive, and no one is left behind.

Urban Health

Author : Jo Ivey Boufford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470880848
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Urban Health written by Jo Ivey Boufford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twentieth century, the urban settings of the wealthy nations were largely associated with opportunity, accumulation of wealth, and better health than their rural counterparts. In the twenty-first century, demographic changes, globalization, and climate change are having important health consequences on wealthy nations and especially on low- and middle-income countries. The increasing concentration of poverty and significant inequalities between urban neighborhoods and the physical and social environments in cities are important determinants of population health. In this important new book, experts identify the priority problems and outline solutions that can generate and sustain healthy urban environments. Foreword by Michael H. Bloomberg Contributors include: Sue Atkinson, John G. Bartlett, Angela Beaton, Karl Brown, Pamela Ligouri Bunker, Robert J. Bunker, Scott Burris, Waleska Teixeira Caiffa, Roel A. Coutinho, Manuel Carballo, Ruth Colagiuri, Beatriz de Faria Leao, Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche, Alex Ezeh, Geoff Green, Claudio Giulliano da Costa Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Ruth Finkelstein, Julio Frenk, Nicholas Freudenberg, Fu Hua, Sandro Galea, Ticia Gerber, Carola Hein, Catherine Hull, Tord Kjellstrom, Jacob Kumaresan, Catherine Ronald Labonté, Stephen Leeder, Godfrey Mbarauku, Gordon McGranahan, Patricia Monge, Mark R. Montgomery, Martin Mulenga, Ana Luiza Nabuco, Julie Netherland, Ndioro Ndiaye, Rougui Ndiaye-Coïc, Kalala Ngalamulume, Danielle Ompad, Stipe Oreskovic, Ariel Pablos-Méndez, Jonathan Parkinson, Fernando Augusto Proietti, Thomas C. Quinn, Carlos E. Restrepo, Kevin J. Robinson, Jonathan M. Samet, David Satterthwaite, Richard H. Schneider, Ted Schrecker, Elliott Sclar, Maria Steenland, Agis Tsouros, Arnoud P. Verhoeff, Nicole Volavka-Close, Michael Ward, Vanessa Watson, Rae Zimmerman.

Perspectives of Knowledge Management in Urban Health

Author : Michael Christopher Gibbons
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441956441
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives of Knowledge Management in Urban Health written by Michael Christopher Gibbons and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a tragic paradox of American health care: a system renowned for world-class doctors, the latest medical technologies, and miraculous treatments has shocking inadequacies when it comes to the health of the urban poor. Urban Health Knowledge Management outlines bold, workable strategies for addressing this disparity and eliminating the “knowledge islands” that so often disrupt effective service delivery. The book offers a wide-reaching global framework for organizational competence leading to improved care quality and outcomes for traditionally underserved clients in diverse, challenging settings. Its contributors understand the issues fluently, imparting both macro and micro concepts of KM with clear rationales and real-world examples as they: • Analyze key aspects of KM and explains their applicability to urban health. • Introduce the KM tools and technologies most relevant to health care delivery. • Offer evidence of the role of KM in improving clinical efficacy and executive decision-making. • Provide extended case examples of KM-based programs used in Washington, D.C. (child health), South Africa (HIV/AIDS), and Australia (health inequities). • Apply KM principles to urban health needs in developing countries. • Discuss new approaches to managing, evaluating, and improving delivery systems in the book’s “Measures and Metrics” section. Urban health professionals, as well as health care executives and administrators, will find Urban Health Knowledge Management a significant resource for bringing service delivery up to speed at a time of great advancement and change.

The Role of Health Centres in the Development of Urban Health Systems

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Role of Health Centres in the Development of Urban Health Systems written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Healthy City Projects in Developing Countries

Author : Edmundo Werna
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134180977
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Healthy City Projects in Developing Countries written by Edmundo Werna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the growth of cities and towns throughout the developing world have come significant health problems. The urban poor are particularly affected, faced with the worst of both worlds: urban problems such as pollution and stress, combined with infectious diseases common in both rural and urban areas. The Healthy City Project shows how to put health high on the agenda of urban officials, integrating it into all other planning and development decisions. Healthy City Projects in Developing Countries presents a comprehensive account of this very important and increasingly influential initiative. Drawing on experience in a range of cities it shows how to design, implement and evaluate the integration of public health into urban management. The results will be very significant to all those making and implementing urban policies, as well as those working in and on public health, urban development and environmental issues.

Strategic Urban Health Communication

Author : Charles C. Okigbo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461493358
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Urban Health Communication written by Charles C. Okigbo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Urban Health Communication Charles C. Okigbo, editor People are bombarded with messages continuously and sorting through them constantly. In this milieu, critical ideas about health promotion and illness prevention are forced to compete with distracting, conflicting, even contradictory information. To get vital messages through, communication must be effective, targeted, artful—in a word, strategic. Strategic Urban Health Communication provides a road map for understanding strategy, enhancing strategic planning skills, and implementing strategic communication campaigns. Deftly written chapters link the art and science of strategic planning to world health goals such as reducing health inequities and eradicating diseases. Flexibility is at the heart of these cases, which span developed and developing countries, uses of traditional and digital media, and chronic and acute health challenges. And the contributors ground their dispatches in the larger context of health promotion, giving readers useful examples of thinking globally while working locally. Included in the coverage: Urbanization, population, and health myths: addressing common misconceptions. Integrating HIV/family planning programs: opportunities for strategic communication. The role of sports in strategic health promotion in low-income areas. The Internet as a sex education tool: a case study from Thailand. Advertising and childhood obesity in China. Health communication strategies for sustainable development in a globalized world. Balancing depth of understanding of audiences and methods of reaching them, Strategic Urban Health Communication is a forward-looking resource geared toward professionals and researchers in urban health, global health, and health communication.

Hidden Cities

Author : World Health Organization. Centre for Health Development
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9241548037
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Hidden Cities written by World Health Organization. Centre for Health Development and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2010 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The joint WHO and UN-HABITAT report, Hidden cities: unmasking and overcoming health inequities in urban settings, is being released at a turning point in human history. For the first time ever, the majority of the world's population is living in cities, and this proportion continues to grow. Putting this into numbers, in 1990 fewer than 4 in 10 people lived in urban areas. In 2010, more than half live in cities, and by 2050 this proportion will grow to 7 out of every 10 people. The number of urban residents is growing by nearly 60 million every year. This demographic transition from rural to urban, or urbanization, has far-reaching consequences. Urbanization has been associated with overall shifts in the economy, away from agriculture-based activities and towards mass industry, technology and service. High urban densities have reduced transaction costs, made public spending on infrastructure and services more economically viable, and facilitated generation and diffusion of knowledge, all of which have fuelled economic growth"--Page ix.

Urban Health Research in Developing Countries

Author : Sarah J. Atkinson
Publisher : C A B International
ISBN 13 : 9780851991351
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book Urban Health Research in Developing Countries written by Sarah J. Atkinson and published by C A B International. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent rapid growth of urban populations in developing countries, particularly the urban poor, is making increasing demands upon public sector services. Health care provision in many developing countries has traditionally been focused on rural areas. As the favelas and shanty towns continue to grow there is an increasing need to review the applicability of rural primary health care experience for use within urban areas. This book presents one of the first collations of research work currently being carried out in this field. The important question of how research can inform and help to set policy is also addressed. Urban environmental health and urban health service provision are discussed. There are also chapters that consider some of the wider issues of public health, such as the social aspects of the urban population, topics which are not always included in traditional public health research volumes.

Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries

Author : Janna Coomans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108923909
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries written by Janna Coomans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By exploring the uniquely dense urban network of the Low Countries, Janna Coomans debunks the myth of medieval cities as apathetic towards filth and disease. Based on new archival research and adopting a bio-political and spatial-material approach, Coomans traces how cities developed a broad range of practices to protect themselves and fight disease. Urban societies negotiated challenges to their collective health in the face of social, political and environmental change, transforming ideas on civic duties and the common good. Tasks were divided among different groups, including town governments, neighbours and guilds, and affected a wide range of areas, from water, fire and food, to pigs, prostitutes and plague. By studying these efforts in the round, Coomans offers new comparative insights and bolsters our understanding of the importance of population health and the physical world - infrastructures, flora and fauna - in governing medieval cities.

Urban Health in the Third World

Author : Rais Akhtar
Publisher : APH Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788176482936
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Urban Health in the Third World written by Rais Akhtar and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban Health & Development

Author : Beverley E. Booth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333679340
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book Urban Health & Development written by Beverley E. Booth and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the developing world, cities are increasingly crowded with the poor and vulnerable. This manual is designed for all those working with the urban poor, in particular front-line health and development workers. It is relevant both to government programmes and for non-governmental orginazations.

Health in Megacities and Urban Areas

Author : Alexander Krämer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3790827339
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Health in Megacities and Urban Areas written by Alexander Krämer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse driving forces, processes and actors are responsible for different trends in the development of megacities and large urban areas. Under the dynamics of global change, megacities are themselves changing: On the one hand they are prone to increasing socio-economic vulnerability due to pronounced poverty, socio-spatial and political fragmentation, sometimes with extreme forms of segregation, disparities and conflicts. On the other hand megacities offer positive potential for global transformation, e.g. minimisation of space consumption, highly effective use of resources, efficient disaster prevention and health care options – if good strategies were developed. At present in many megacities and urban areas of the developing world and the emerging economies the quality of life is eroding. Most of the megacities have grown to unprecedented size, and the pace of urbanisation has far exceeded the growth of the necessary infrastructure and services. As a result, an increasing number of urban dwellers are left without access to basic amenities like clean drinking water, fresh air and safe food. Additionally, social inequalities lead to subsequent and significant intra-urban health inequalities and unbalanced disease burdens that can trigger conflict and violence between subpopulations. The guiding idea of our book lies in a multi- and interdisciplinary approach to the complex topic of megacities and urban health that can only be adequately understood when different disciplines share their knowledge and methodological tools to work together. We hope that the book will allow readers to deepen their understanding of the complex dynamics of urban and megacity populations through the lens of public health, geographical and other research perspectives.