Download or read book Toward the Healthy City written by Jason Corburn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning. In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds, and more money is spent on prisons than schools, residents also suffer disproportionately from disease and premature death. Recognizing that city environments and the planning processes that shape them are powerful determinants of population health, urban planners today are beginning to take on the added challenge of revitalizing neglected urban neighborhoods in ways that improve health and promote greater equity. In Toward the Healthy City, Jason Corburn argues that city planning must return to its roots in public health and social justice. The first book to provide a detailed account of how city planning and public health practices can reconnect to address health disparities, Toward the Healthy City offers a new decision-making framework called “healthy city planning” that reframes traditional planning and development issues and offers a new scientific evidence base for participatory action, coalition building, and ongoing monitoring. To show healthy city planning in action, Corburn examines collaborations between government agencies and community coalitions in the San Francisco Bay area, including efforts to link environmental justice, residents' chronic illnesses, housing and real estate development projects, and planning processes with public health. Initiatives like these, Corburn points out, go well beyond recent attempts by urban planners to promote public health by changing the design of cities to encourage physical activity. Corburn argues for a broader conception of healthy urban governance that addresses the root causes of health inequities.
Download or read book Toward the Healthy City written by Jason Corburn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning. In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds, and more money is spent on prisons than schools, residents also suffer disproportionately from disease and premature death. Recognizing that city environments and the planning processes that shape them are powerful determinants of population health, urban planners today are beginning to take on the added challenge of revitalizing neglected urban neighborhoods in ways that improve health and promote greater equity. In Toward the Healthy City, Jason Corburn argues that city planning must return to its roots in public health and social justice. The first book to provide a detailed account of how city planning and public health practices can reconnect to address health disparities, Toward the Healthy City offers a new decision-making framework called “healthy city planning” that reframes traditional planning and development issues and offers a new scientific evidence base for participatory action, coalition building, and ongoing monitoring. To show healthy city planning in action, Corburn examines collaborations between government agencies and community coalitions in the San Francisco Bay area, including efforts to link environmental justice, residents' chronic illnesses, housing and real estate development projects, and planning processes with public health. Initiatives like these, Corburn points out, go well beyond recent attempts by urban planners to promote public health by changing the design of cities to encourage physical activity. Corburn argues for a broader conception of healthy urban governance that addresses the root causes of health inequities.
Download or read book Towards Healthy Cities written by Alexander Otgaar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the conditions needed to make public and private investments in healthy cities most effective. The authors argue that three conditions are essential for such investments: citizen empowerment, corporate responsibility and a coordinated improvement of urban health conditions. Using an integrated approach to health in line with the Healthy Cities philosophy of the World Health Organization, case studies in Helsinki, Liverpool, London, Udine and Vancouver are not only used to demonstrate the relevance of these conditions, but also to show how actors in these cities are trying to meet these conditions.
Download or read book Towards Healthy Cities written by Dr Alexander Otgaar and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the conditions needed to make public and private investments in healthy cities most effective. The authors argue that three conditions are essential for such investments: citizen empowerment, corporate responsibility and a coordinated improvement of urban health conditions. Using an integrated approach to health in line with the Healthy Cities philosophy of the World Health Organization, case studies in Helsinki, Liverpool, London, Udine and Vancouver are not only used to demonstrate the relevance of these conditions, but also to show how actors in these cities are trying to meet these conditions.
Download or read book Toward a Healthier City written by New York (N.Y.). Department of Health and published by . This book was released on 1974* with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Healthy Cities written by Evelyne de Leeuw and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This forward-looking resource recasts the concept of healthy cities as not only a safe, pleasant, and green built environment, but also one that creates and sustains health by addressing social, economic, and political conditions. It describes collaborations between city planning and public health creating a contemporary concept of urban governance—a democratically-informed process that embraces values like equity. Models, critiques, and global examples illustrate institutional change, community input, targeted assessment, and other means of addressing longstanding sources of urban health challenges. In these ambitious pages, healthy cities are rooted firmly in the worldwide movement toward balanced and sustainable urbanization, developed not to disguise or displace entrenched health and social problems, but to encourage and foster solutions. Included in the coverage: Towards healthy urban governance in the century of the city“/li> Healthy cities emerge: Toronto, Ottawa, Copenhagen The role of policy coalitions in understanding community participation in healthy cities projects Health impact assessment at the local level The logic of method for evaluating healthy cities Plus: extended reports on healthy cities and communities in North and Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East Healthy Cities will interest and inspire community leaders, activists, politicians, and entrepreneurs working to improve health and well-being at the local level, as well as public health and urban development scholars and professionals.
Download or read book Towards Healthy Cities written by Alexander H. J. Otgaar and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the conditions needed to make public and private investments in healthy cities effective. It argues that three conditions are essential: citizen empowerment, corporate responsibility and a coordinated improvement of urban health. The book uses case studies from around the world to show the importance of these conditions, and how actors are trying to meet them.
Download or read book Towards Healthy Cities written by Alexander Otgaar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the conditions needed to make public and private investments in healthy cities most effective. The authors argue that three conditions are essential for such investments: citizen empowerment, corporate responsibility and a coordinated improvement of urban health conditions. Using an integrated approach to health in line with the Healthy Cities philosophy of the World Health Organization, case studies in Helsinki, Liverpool, London, Udine and Vancouver are not only used to demonstrate the relevance of these conditions, but also to show how actors in these cities are trying to meet these conditions.
Download or read book Healthy City Planning written by Jason Corburn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today’s cities will be equitable and healthy. Having made the case for what he calls ‘adaptive urban health justice’ in the opening chapter, Corburn briefly reviews the key events, actors, ideologies, institutions and policies that shaped and reshaped the urban public health and planning from the nineteenth century to the present day. He uses two frames to organize this historical review: the view of the city as a field site and as a laboratory. In the second part of the book Corburn uses in-depth case studies of health and planning activities in Rio de Janeiro, Nairobi, and Richmond, California to explore the institutions, policies and practices that constitute healthy city planning. These case studies personify some of the characteristics of his ideal of adaptive urban health justice. Each begins with an historical review of the place, its policies and social movements around urban development and public health, and each is an example of the urban poor participating in, shaping, and being impacted by healthy city planning.
Download or read book Towards Healthy Cities written by Alexander H. J. Otgaar and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joyride written by Mia Birk and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Portland: Cadence Press, 2010.
Download or read book Interventions for Healthy Eating and Active Urban Living written by Elisa Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide includes proven and promising community level interventions to prevent disease and improve the health of the population by: increasing access to healthy, affordable food; decreasing access to unhealthy foods and beverages; and improving opportunities for physical activity and exercise. This guide is meant for community organizations and hospitals looking to implement, increase or improve their investments in population health, particularly for low-income and historically disadvantaged urban communities. It is informed by a review of the literature and the input of more than 20 community organizations and non-profit institutions operating in New York City (NYC) and participating in the Designing a Strong and Healthy New York City (DASH-NYC) Workgroup. This guide is not intended to be a comprehensive list of the many promising programs in NYC, but rather is a curated sample of innovative activities that are working towards creating a healthier city.
Download or read book Healthy Cities written by John K Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of health promotion as a topic for discussion and a principle for practice is widespread, and affects all groups of health professionals. The Healthy Cities project, like Health for All, was inaugurated by the World Health Organization and has informed policy throughout the world. Healthy Cities: Research and Practice examines the application of the project in a number of countries. The contributors explore problems in the relationship between policy makers, communities, and academic researchers, and discuss how the Healthy Cities program affects housing policy, community development, scientific interchange and health education. In addition, the Editors, John Davies and Michael Kelly, provide a context by tracing the history of the WHO projects and discuss them in the broader context of scientific and philosohical debates about modernism and post-modernism. The contributors are drawn from practitioners and scientists with wide experience in the area from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and the United States. Healthy Cities will be invaluable to all those working at community level and in government with an interest in health, as well as students of health promotion.
Download or read book Healthy Urban Planning written by Hugh Barton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to refocus urban planners on the implications of their work for human health and well-being. Provides practical advice on ways to integrate health and urban planning.
Download or read book Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research written by Takehito Takano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthy Cites and Urban Policy Research is a collection of papers by leading experts from academia or international organisations who have been involved in the Healthy Cities Movement. It is the first academic work to combine public health with urban planning. Contemporary issues from various perspectives are included which address evaluation, evidence-based practice, accountability, community participation and information technology.
Download or read book Healthy Cities written by Jason Corburn and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the fields of modern city planning and public health emerged together in the 19th century to address urban inequities and infectious diseases, they were largely disconnected for much of the 20th century. In the 21st century, planning and public health are reconnecting to address the new health challenges of urbanization and globalization ' from racial and ethnic disparities to land use sprawl to providing basic services to the millions of urban poor around the world living in informal slum settlements. Reconnecting the fields of planning ...
Download or read book DASH NYC Featured Program written by Elisa Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide includes proven and promising community level interventions to prevent disease and improve the health of the population by: increasing access to healthy, affordable food; decreasing access to unhealthy foods and beverages; and improving opportunities for physical activity and exercise. This guide is meant for community organizations and hospitals looking to implement, increase or improve their investments in population health, particularly for low-income and historically disadvantaged urban communities. It is informed by a review of the literature and the input of more than 20 community organizations and non-profit institutions operating in New York City (NYC) and participating in the Designing a Strong and Healthy New York City (DASH-NYC) Workgroup. This guide is not intended to be a comprehensive list of the many promising programs in NYC, but rather is a curated sample of innovative activities that are working towards creating a healthier city.
