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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
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Innovations to Address Specific Populations and Health
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Innovations to Address Specific Urbanization-Related Threats to Health
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Frameworks, Cases and Tools to Address Urbanization and Health Through Innovation
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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.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Roy Ahn, Thomas F. Burke
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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