Translating National Policy to Improve Environmental Conditions Impacting Public Health Through Community Planning

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. The Challenge of Implementing Macroeconomic Policy in an Increasingly Microeconomic World

   • Beth Ann Fiedler, Valeria Costantini

   Pages 1-21

3. Green Aid Flows: Trends and Opportunities for Developing Countries

   • Valeria Costantini, Antonio Mele

   Pages 23-40

4. Food Sustainability Index Report on the United States: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

   • Beth Ann Fiedler

   Pages 41-49

5. Planning Healthy Communities: Abating Preventable Chronic Diseases

   • Arthi Rao, Catherine L. Ross

   Pages 51-77

6. A Regulatory Primer of International Environmental Policy and Land Use

   • Beth Ann Fiedler

   Pages 79-90

7. A Regulatory Primer of United States Multisectoral Land Use and Environmental Policy

   • Beth Ann Fiedler

   Pages 91-106

8. Foundations of Community Health: Planning Access to Public Facilities

   • Kirsten Cook, Beth Ann Fiedler

   Pages 107-130

9. Food Reservations at the Reservation?

   • Rebecca Webster

   Pages 131-153

10. The Buzz About Restoring Mother Nature at the Urban Core

    • Beth Ann Fiedler

    Pages 155-169

11. Green Business: Not Just the Color of Money

    • Naz Onel, Beth Ann Fiedler

    Pages 171-202

12. Upstream Policy Recommendations for Pakistan’s Child Mortality Problem

    • Samina Panwhar, Beth Ann Fiedler

    Pages 203-217

13. Water Quality: Mindanao Island of the Philippines

    • Angelo Mark P. Walag, Oliva P. Canencia, Beth Ann Fiedler

    Pages 219-253

14. International Changes in Environmental Conditions and Their Personal Health Consequences

    • Beth Ann Fiedler

    Pages 255-283

15. Streetwise Community Policing to Inform United States National Policy

    • Vincent N. Van Ness III

    Pages 285-303

16. Back Matter

    Pages 305-312

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This first-of-its-kind volume traces rarely explored links between public policy, the state of the environment, and key issues in public health, with recommendations for addressing longstanding intractable problems. Experts across diverse professions use their wide knowledge and experience to discuss hunger and food sustainability, land use, chronic and communicable diseases, child mortality, and global water quality. Interventions described are varied as well, from green technology breakthroughs to regulatory accountability, innovative urban planning and community policing programs. Chapters build and expand on each other’s themes inspiring  deeper understanding and critical thinking that further prompts readers to develop practical solutions leading to improvements in planetary and population health outcomes.

 

Included in the coverage:

·         The challenge of implementing macroeconomic policy in an increasingly microeconomic world

·         Green aid flows: trends and opportunities for developing countries

·         Planning healthy communities: abating preventable chronic diseases

·         Foundations of community health: planning access to public facilities

·         International changes in environmental conditions and their personal health consequences

Translating National Policy to Improve Environmental Conditions Impacting Public Health is developed for educators, students, and policymakers to generate awareness and review options to help create change in their communities. Federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, the EPA, and Housing and Urban Development will also find it salient. 

• environmental health
• population health
• quality of life
• spectrum of health care
• continuum of care
• national health policy
• vulnerable populations
• environmental sciences
• community planning
• health law
• healthy communities
• urban health
• sustainable business ventures
• health equity
• green health
• public health

“The author of this book provides excellent examples of how public policy is inextricably linked with the environment and public health outcomes. … students in public policy, health policy, health professions, or urban planning would find this book appealing as well. The book meets the needs of the intended audience. The author and contributors are known experts in their fields.” (Carole A. Kenner, Doody's Book Reviews, July, 2018)

• Independent Research Analyst, Jacksonville, USA

  Beth Ann Fiedler

Beth Ann Fiedler, PhD, is an independent researcher and author. Dr. Fiedler has authored books on medical device regulation and innovative approaches to healthcare quality. She has also successfully completed quality-award winning management and other projects for the private sector and the United States military. As a health generalist, Dr. Fiedler has explored a variety of factors influencing public policy ranging from ethics in electricity usage to her current project on medical device health technology management.  

Dr. Fiedler's research includes policy analysis focused on healthcare quality and policy development to improve community health and fiscal conditions presented to representatives of the U.S. Senate, and annual conferences such as the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA); Decision Sciences Institute; Global Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems (GLOBELICS); Healthcare Information Technology and Management Systems Society (HIMSS); and MedBiquitous at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She has published in Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, Energy Policy, the International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing, the International Journal of Public Policy, the James Madison Institute (JMI) Backgrounder, the Journal of Public Administration & Governance, the Quarterly Journal of Business Studies, the Medical Equipment Technology Association (M.E.T.A.) Scholar, and in the Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute. Her work on medical malpractice for JMI has been cited as "Ideas Changing the World" by the National Center for Policy Analysis. Dr. Fiedler was recently named an ASPA Founder's Fellow in 2014 and received a 2015 Outstanding Reviewer Award for Excellence by the Emerald Literati Network.

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