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Urban Health and Society
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice
Nicholas Freudenberg (Edited by), N Freudenberg (Author), Susan Klitzman (Edited by), Susan Saegert (Edited by)
9780470383667, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 28 August 2009
352 pages
23.6 x 18 x 2.1 cm, 0.576 kg
... Takes a practical focus to introducing researchers and graduate students to the connections between population health and social justice, the variety of approaches to studying those connections from an interdisciplinary vantage point, the creation of interventions to address disparities, and potential applications of these approaches for research. The editors and contributing authors succeed with a book that provides examples of and formulas for interdisciplinary research in a variety of fields related to urban health. The authors do a superb job of tying the chapters together, beginning with why these approaches to research and practice are warranted and ending with potential limitations and benefits. This book brings practical knowledge together from a variety of disciplines to enhance population health and social justice research.
—Doody's Book Review Service, April 2010
Praise for Urban Health and Society "This is a spectacular resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and students interested in improving the lives and health of individuals and families in urban settings. This book provides the most current frameworks, research, and approaches for understanding how unique features of the urban physical and social environments that shape the health of over half of the world's population that is already residing in large cities. Its interdisciplinary research and practice focus is a welcome innovation." "Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice provides students in public health, urban planning, social work, and other professions with the critical knowledge and practical guidance they need to work as effective members of interdisciplinary teams aimed at studying and addressing urban health problems. Throughout the chapters, the book's attention to community participation, social justice, and equity as well as interdisciplinary research methods make it an invaluable resource." "The book will be of great interest to academics, politicians, planners, and public health professionals attempting to understand or reduce urban health risks, create safe urban environments, and deliver effective and sustainable health services and programs to urban populations."
Hortensia Amaro, associate dean, Urban Health Research; Distinguished Professor, Bouve College of Health Sciences; and director, Institute on Urban Health Research, Northeastern University
Barbara A. Israel, professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Stephen Lepore, professor and PhD program director, Department of Public Health, Temple University
Preface xi The Contributors xiii Part One Introduction 1 1 Frameworks for Interdisciplinary Urban Health Research and Practice 3 Introduction 4 The Implications of Urban Life for Health 6 Levels and Types of Interdisciplinarity 8 Conundrums in Interdisciplinarity 10 Interdisciplinarity and Theories of Knowledge 11 Methodological Challenges and Approaches to Interdisciplinarity 12 Interdisciplinarity: Which Disciplines When? 12 Role Definitions in Interdisciplinary Research and Practice 13 Multiple Levels of Intervention 14 Summary 15 2 Environmental Justice Praxis: Implications for Interdisciplinary Urban Public Health 19 Environmental Justice and Public Health 22 The Built Environment, Urban Planning, and Urban Public Health 23 Environmental and Social Justice, Interdisciplinarity, and the Politics of Knowledge 26 Asthma and the Environmental Justice Campaign for a Solid Waste Plan in New York City 29 Asian Immigrant and Refugee Organizing for Environmental Health and Housing in the Bay Area 34 Conclusion 37 Summary 38 Part Two Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studying Causes of Urban Health Problems 43 3 Interdisciplinary, Participatory Research on Urban Food Environments and Dietary Behaviors 45 Introduction 46 Determinants of Retail Food Environments in Cities 47 Using CBPR to Understand the Health Implications of Detroit’s Food Environment 48 Directions for Future Research 54 Summary 56 4 An Ecological Model of Urban Child Health 63 Introduction 64 An Ecological Model 64 Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Model 65 Influences on Children’s Health in the Urban Context 68 Research Across Multiple Levels 76 Agenda for Future Research and Practice 78 Summary 80 5 Geographic Information Systems, Environmental Justice, and Health Disparities 93 Introduction 94 Community-Based Participatory Research 95 Multilevel Models of Causation 96 Role of Geographic Information Systems 96 Environmental Justice and Health in the Bronx 97 Methods 101 Findings 110 Implications of Findings 111 Lessons on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Urban Health Research 117 Conclusion 119 Summary 119 6 Racial Inequality in Health and the Policy-induced Breakdown of African American Communities 127 Introduction 128 Racialized Ideologies: Developmentalism, Economism, and the American Creed 131 Implications for Public Policy 138 Building a Movement for Policy Reform 144 Summary 148 7 An Interdisciplinary and Social-ecological Analysis of the U.s. Foreclosure Crisis as It Relates to Health 161 Housing and Health: What’s the Connection? 162 The Social Ecology of Foreclosure 164 The Research and Its Context 166 Focus Group Analysis and the Emergence of Health as an Issue 170 Foreclosure and Public Health 173 Neoliberalism, the Foreclosure Crisis, and Health Consequences 174 Conclusion 176 Summary 178 Part Three Interdisciplinary Approaches to Interventions to Promote Urban Health 183 8 Transdisciplinary Action Research On Teen Smoking Prevention 185 Introduction 186 Review of Transdisciplinary Action Research 186 Transdisciplinary Action Research Cycle 187 Translating Transdisciplinary Research into Community Intervention and Policy 189 Factors Facilitating or Impeding Collaboration Among TPC Members 196 Implications and Additional Lessons Learned from the TPC Study 205 Future Directions 207 Summary 211 9 How Vulnerabilities and Capacities Shape Population Health After Disasters 217 Social and Economic Determinants of Health After Disasters 218 Humanitarian Crises in Angola and the Balkans 223 Hurricane Katrina 224 September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks on New York City 226 Implications for Prevention and Intervention 229 Summary 231 10 Immigrants and Urban Aging: Toward A Policy Framework 239 The New Urban Demography: Baby Boomers and Immigrants 240 Economic and Social Influences on Aging and Health Policy 242 Social and Environmental Considerations 246 Toward a Conceptual Framework 254 A Public Health Research and Policy Agenda 255 Summary 258 11 Reversing the Tide of Type 2 Diabetes Among African Americans Through Interdisciplinary Research 271 A Dialogue Between Two Disciplines: Psychology and Medical Anthropology 273 Ethnic Identity and the Experience of Being African American with Type 2 Diabetes 278 Interdisciplinary Research Methods 281 Integrating Social Psychology and Medical Anthropology to Reduce the Burden of Diabetes 284 Summary 285 Part Four Putting Interdisciplinary Approaches into Practice 293 12 Using Interdisciplinary Approaches to Strengthen Urban Health Research and Practice 295 Doing Interdisciplinary Research and Practice 296 Defining the Problem 299 Creating a Process for Interdisciplinary Work 302 Choosing Institutional and Community Partners 305 Influencing Policy and Practice 309 Evaluating Impact 311 Wanted: Interdisciplinary Researchers and Practitioners 312 Summary 314 Glossary 319 Index 325
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Subject Areas: Medicine: general issues [MB]
