Urban health

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Section I: Present and Future of Cities / Sandro Galea, Catherine K. Ettman, and David Vlahov

Why cities and health? Cities as determinants of health / Catherine K. Ettman, David Vlahov, and Sandro Galea

Section II: Health challenges and opportunities in cities

Economic conditions / Atheendar S. Venkataramani

Reducing poverty, improving health / Sanjay Basu

Housing / Roshanak Mehipanah, Alexa K. Eisenberg, and Amy J. Schulz

Transport and Health / Mark Neuiwenhuijsen and Haneen Khreis

Aging Populations / Kathleen A. Cagney

Children and adolescents in cities / Shakira P. Sugila

Inequities in cities and in urban health

Migration / Sabrina Hermosilla, Tahilia J. Rebello

Education / Jennifer Karas Montez, Amy Ellen Schwartz

Healthy places to play, learn, and develop / Renée Boynton-Jarrett

Pollution / Jonathan M. Samet

Climate change and the health of urban populations / Patrick L. Kinney

Crime and criminal justice in cities / Monica L. Wang and Marisa Otis

Improving access to healthy food in cities / Monica L. Wang and Marisa Otis

Disasters / James M. Schultz

Section III: Methods and approaches to understanding health in cities

Urban public health: a historical perspective / Ricahrd Rodger

Systems science approach to urban health / Danielle C. Ompad and Yesim Tozan

Sociology / Lee Jin, Chenyu Ye, Yesim tozan

Urban planning: leveraging the urban planning system to shape healthy cities / Helen Pineo, Nici Zimmerman, and Mike Davies

Health services research: studying healthcare services in the city / Michael K. Gusmano

Environmental health impact assessment; / Carlos Dora

Multilevel Perspectives on Urban Health / Dustin T. Duncan, Yazan A. Al-A-Ajlounii, Ilgaz Hisirci, and Bastile Chaix

Cells-​to-​society approaches / Guia Guffanti

Social Networks / Abby E. Rudolph

Urban Design / Oliver Gruebner and Layla McCay

Urban land use and health / Rohan Simkin and Karen C. Seto

Community-​based participatory research: an approach to research in the urban context / Barbara A. Israel and [6 others]

Section IV: Case Studies in Urban Health

The Healthy Cities Movement / Agis D. Tsouros

Partnership for Healthy Cities: Activating Urban Governments as Engines of Public Health Practice / Ariella Rojhani and [5 others]

Cityhealth: policies for today's urban health challenges / Brian C. Castrucci and [5 others]

New York City: The Fit City Example / Karen Lee

Boston: a case study / Russ Lopez

Richmond, California: Health equity in all urban policies / Jason Corburn and Joseph S. Griffin

Case Studies in urban health: Nairobi, Kenya / Alex ezeh and Blessing Mberu

Observatory for urban health in Belo Horizonte city: an innovative and cross-sectoral collaboration in urban health / Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa and Amelia Augusta De Lima Firche

Rapid urbanization in China / Brian J. Hall, Teng Ieng Leong, and Wen Chen

egional planning for health / David Siscovick, Mandu Sen, and Chris Jones

Going biophilic buildings / Jie Yin and John D. Spengler

Section V Future of cities, the future of health

City health departments: leading urban public health practice / Daniel Kass, Thomas Matts, and Adam Karpati

City leadership for health, equity, and sustainable development / Agis D. Tsouros

Teaching urban health / Nicholas Freudenberg

Urban health: looking to the future / David Vlahov, Catherine K. Ettman, and Sandro Galea.