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Innovating for Healthy Urbanization

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Editors:
  1. Roy Ahn

    1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

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  2. Thomas F. Burke

    1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

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  3. Anita M. McGahan

    1. University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada

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  • Collection of case studies that represents important and timely urban health topics, including natural disaster, obesity, urban planning, migration, environmental pollution

  • Analysis of some very current topics, including: the earthquake in Haiti, immigration to Los Angeles from Mexico, effects of environmental pollution

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Innovations to Address Specific Populations and Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Maternal Health Innovations and Urbanization

      • Melody Eckardt, Hannah L. Harp, Roy Ahn, Genevieve Purcell, Emily de Redon, Rosemary Hines et al.
      Pages 3-18

    3. Innovations in Low- and Middle-Income Countries for Newborn and Child Health

      • Brett D. Nelson, Lisa B. Collins, Edward W. J. Pritchard
      Pages 19-40

    4. Addressing Micronutrient Malnutrition in Urban Settings

      • Laura A. Rowe, David M. Dodson
      Pages 41-76

  3. Innovations to Address Specific Urbanization-Related Threats to Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Innovations in Anti-Trafficking Efforts: Implications for Urbanization and Health

      • Roy Ahn, Genevieve Purcell, Anita M. McGahan, Hanni Stoklosa, Thomas F. Burke, Kathryn Conn et al.
      Pages 79-96

    3. Securing Cities: Innovations for the Prevention of Civic Violence

      • Horacio R. Trujillo, Elena Siegel, Malcolm Clayton, Gabe Shapiro, David Elam
      Pages 97-122

    4. Disaster Preparedness and Response Innovations: Implications for Urbanization and Health

      • Laura Janneck, Paul Biddinger
      Pages 123-139

    5. Innovations to Address Global Drug Counterfeiting: Implications for Urbanization and Health

      • Kendra Amico, Emily Aaronson, Howard Zucker
      Pages 141-163

    6. Community Noise, Urbanization, and Global Health: Problems and Solutions

      • Charles M. Salter, Roy Ahn, Faiza Yasin, Rosemary Hines, Laurence Kornfield, Ethan C. Salter et al.
      Pages 165-192

    7. Modeling Vulnerable Urban Populations in the Global Context of a Changing Climate

      • Vijay Lulla, Austin Stanforth, Natasha Prudent, Daniel Johnson, George Luber
      Pages 193-208

    8. Urbanization and Unintentional Injury in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

      • John D. Kraemer
      Pages 209-244

  4. Frameworks, Cases and Tools to Address Urbanization and Health Through Innovation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245
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    2. The Millennium Cities Initiative: An Experiment in Integrated Urban Development

      • Susan M. Blaustein
      Pages 247-267

    3. Diagnostic Innovations in Developing Urban Settings

      • Patrick Beattie, Matthew Stewart, Charles Mace
      Pages 269-291

    4. Innovations in Global Health Professional Education: Implications for Urbanization

      • Leana S. Wen
      Pages 293-306

    5. The Case for Comprehensive, Integrated, and Standardized Measures of Health in Cities

      • Patricia L. McCarney, Anita M. McGahan
      Pages 307-320

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 321-333
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About this book

This powerful resource identifies wide-scale health challenges facing a rapidly urbanizing planet--including key concerns in nutrition, health status, health care, and safety--and strategies toward possible solutions. Theoretical and empirical analysis focuses on maximizing the benefits of urban living and minimizing negative outcomes across areas for improvement (health education, maternal and child health) and threats to well-being (noise pollution, drug counterfeiting). For each challenge, contributors discuss implications for health, specific practices that fuel them, and emerging ideas for solving them efficiently and effectively. Not only are these issues of immediate salience, they will become dangerously urgent in years to come.

 Included in the coverage:

  • Food fortification and other innovations to address child malnutrition.
  • Anti-trafficking innovations, urbanization, and global health.
  • Innovations to address global climate change in cities.
  • Innovations in disaster preparedness: implications for urbanization and health.
  • Medical diagnostic innovations in urban developing settings.
  • The case for comprehensive, integrated, and standardized measures of health in cities.

 Recent studies suggest that urban areas will be a large majority in both the developing and developed worlds. Innovations to Address Urbanization & Global Health is a proactive idea book to be read by undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in public and urban health.

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

    Roy Ahn, Thomas F. Burke

  • University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada

    Anita M. McGahan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Innovating for Healthy Urbanization

  • Editors: Roy Ahn, Thomas F. Burke, Anita M. McGahan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7597-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7812-7Published: 18 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-7597-3Published: 28 July 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 333

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 48 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Public Health

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