Converging Disciplines : A Transdisciplinary Research Approach to Urban Health Problems
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat30364
edited by Maritt Kirst, Nicole Schaefer-McDaniel, Stephen Hwang, Patricia O'Campo.
--New York, NY:
Springer Science+Business Media
, c2011.
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- Location
- Online
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- Author
- Kirst, Maritt
- Other Authors
- Schaefer-McDaniel, Nicole
- Hwang, Stephen
- O'Campo, Patricia
- Responsibility
- edited by Maritt Kirst, Nicole Schaefer-McDaniel, Stephen Hwang, Patricia O'Campo
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Date of Publication
- c2011
- ISBN
- 9781441963307
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Urban Health
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Public health
- Social sciences
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Designing Urban Food Policies : Concepts and Approaches
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat43942
Caroline Brand, Nicolas Bricas, Damien Conaré, Benoit Daviron, Julie Debru, Laura Michel, Christophe-Toussaint Soulard, editors.
--Cham:
SpringerOpen
, c2019.
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- Open access
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- Online
This Open Access book is for scientists and experts who work on urban food policies. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the urban food system sustainability and how it can be tackled by local governments. Written by a collective of researchers, this book describes the existing conceptual frameworks for an analysis of urban food policies, at the crossroads of the concepts of food system and sustainable city. It provides a basis for identifying research questions related to urba…
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- Other Authors
- Brand, Caroline
- Bricas, Nicolas
- Conaré, Damien
- Daviron, Benoit
- Debru, Julie
- Michel, Laura
- Soulard, Christophe-Toussaint
- Responsibility
- Caroline Brand, Nicolas Bricas, Damien Conaré, Benoit Daviron, Julie Debru, Laura Michel, Christophe-Toussaint Soulard, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- SpringerOpen
- Date of Publication
- c2019
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xx, 142 p.) : 10 illus., 4 illus. in color
- Series Title
- Urban agriculture
- ISBN
- 9783030139582
- 9783030139575 (Print ed.)
- 9783030139599 (Print ed.)
- 9783030139605 (Print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2197-1730
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Agriculture
- Health Policy
- Nutrition Policy
- Sustainable Development
- Urban Health
- Abstract
- This Open Access book is for scientists and experts who work on urban food policies. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the urban food system sustainability and how it can be tackled by local governments. Written by a collective of researchers, this book describes the existing conceptual frameworks for an analysis of urban food policies, at the crossroads of the concepts of food system and sustainable city. It provides a basis for identifying research questions related to urban local government initiatives in the North and South. It is the result of work carried out within Agropolis International within the framework of the Sustainable Urban Food Systems program and an action research carried out in support of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole for the construction of its agroecological and food policy.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Urbanization Issues Affecting Food System Sustainability -- History of Urban Food Policy in Europe, From the Ancient City to the Industrial City -- Cities’ Strategies for Sustainable Food and the Levers They Mobilize -- Theoretical Approaches for Effective Sustainable Urban Food Policymaking -- Reconciling Sustainability Issues and Urban Policy Levers -- Putting Food on the Regional Policy Agenda in Montpellier, France -- Conclusion.
- Access
- Open access
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Empathy, dignity, and respect : creating cultural safety for Aboriginal people in urban health care
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat25848
Health Council of Canada.
--Toronto, ON:
Health Council of Canada
, 2012.
- Call Number
- W 84 H434 2012
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Call Number
- W 84 H434 2012
- Corporate Author
- Health Council of Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, ON
- Publisher
- Health Council of Canada
- Date of Publication
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 74 p.
- ISBN
- 9781926961651
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Empathy - Canada
- Cultural Diversity - Canada
- Indians, North American - Canada
- Urban health services - Canada
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
Handbook of Urban Health : Populations, Methods, and Practice
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat28579
edited by Sandro Galea, David Vlahov.
--Boston, MA:
Springer Science+Business Media
, c2005.
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- Location
- Online
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- Author
- Galea, Sandro
- Other Authors
- Vlahov, David
- Responsibility
- edited by Sandro Galea, David Vlahov
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Date of Publication
- c2005
- ISBN
- 9780387258225
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Urban Health
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Public health
- Epidemiology
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Healthy Cities : The Theory, Policy, and Practice of Value-Based Urban Planning
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat41233
Evelyne de Leeuw, Jean Simos, editors.
--New York, NY:
Springer
, 2017.
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- Online
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: democratically-informed process that embraces values like equity. Models, critiques, and global examples illustrate institutional change, community…
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- Other Authors
- de Leeuw, Evelyne
- Simos, Jean
- Responsibility
- Evelyne de Leeuw, Jean Simos, editors
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxx, 515 pages) : 78 illus., 70 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9781493966943
- 9781493966929 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- City Planning
- Health Policy
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Urban Health
- Abstract
- 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: 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; 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.
- Contents
- Part I: Healthy Cities in History -- 1. Cities and Health from the Neolithic to the Anthropocene -- 2. Equitable and Healthy City Planning: Towards Healthy Urban Governance in the Century of the City -- 3. From Health Care to the Promotion of Health: Establishing the Conditions for Healthy Communities in Canada -- 4. Healthy Cities Emerge: Toronto–Ottawa–Copenhagen -- 5. Healthy Cities Move to Maturity -- Part II: Regional World Perspectives -- 6. Healthy Cities in Africa: A Continent of Difference -- 7. Healthy Cities in the Eastern Mediterranean: From Sanitation to Comprehensive Policy -- 8. Healthy Municipalities, Cities, and Communities in Latin America: Strong Histories, Committed Futures -- 9. Healthy Cities and Communities: The North American Experience -- 10. Healthy Cities in Europe: Structured, Unique, and Thoughtful -- 11. The Diversity of Healthy Cities in Asia and the Pacific -- 12. Healthy Cities, Urbanisation, and Healthy Islands: Oceania -- Part III: Grand Healthy City Challenges and Perspectives -- 13. Wrap-Up: Values and Governance for Urban Health -- 14. The Role of Policy Coalitions in Understanding Community Participation in Healthy Cities Projects -- 15. Greening the City: The Health Evidence of Urban Nature -- 16. Local Health Planning and Governance -- 17. From Urban Projects to Healthy City Policies -- 18. A Supportive Tool for Urban Health: Health Impact Assessment at the Local Level -- 19. Futures Thinking and Healthy Cities -- 20. The Logic of Method for Evaluating Healthy Cities -- 21. Healthy Cities: A Political Project Designed to Change How Cities Understand and Deal with Health.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
HIV and Young People : Risk and Resilience in the Urban Slum
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat40018
Gary Jones.
(1st ed.)
--Cham:
Springer
, c2016.
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Revisiting the thinking on vulnerability to HIV and risk of infection, this book provides better understanding by considering the risk of HIV infection alongside notions of personal and collective resilience, dignity and humiliation. The work shows that young people in the urban slum dignify their world and, in doing so, establish priorities and draw on a set of references oftentimes intelligible to them alone. Moreover, humiliation, as an interpersonal event, adds to a sense of vulnerability a…
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- Author
- Jones, Gary
- Responsibility
- Gary Jones
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2016
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 120 p.)
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in public health
- ISBN
- 9783319268149
- 9783319268132 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2192-3698
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Behavior
- HIV infections - epidemiology
- Risk Factors
- Urban Health
- Young Adult
- Abstract
- Revisiting the thinking on vulnerability to HIV and risk of infection, this book provides better understanding by considering the risk of HIV infection alongside notions of personal and collective resilience, dignity and humiliation. The work shows that young people in the urban slum dignify their world and, in doing so, establish priorities and draw on a set of references oftentimes intelligible to them alone. Moreover, humiliation, as an interpersonal event, adds to a sense of vulnerability and lies closely behind choices directly affecting personal health and livelihood. Thus, dignity and humiliation are shown for the first time to have a critical role in health seeking and risky behavior related to HIV, and this is an area in great need of further research. The crucial focus of this work is further emphasized by the rapid growth of urban slums, and high rates of HIV among both slum dwellers and young people, who continue to bear the brunt of the AIDS epidemic, thirty years on. This comprehensive literature review provides a compelling argument that the time is right to further explore the nexus of risk and resilience from a people-centered perspective. Fresh insight is critical to reach the goal of ending AIDS by 2030.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Vulnerability and Risk: health and well being in the slum -- 3. HIV as an urban epidemic -- 4. Young people: vulnerability, risk and HIV in the urban slum -- 5. Migration, young people and vulnerability in the urban slum -- 6. Discussion and conclusion.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Innovating for Healthy Urbanization
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat38930
Roy Ahn, Thomas F. Burke, Anita M. McGahan, editors.
(1st ed.)
--Boston, MA:
Springer US
, c2015.
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- Online
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, c…
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- Other Authors
- Ahn, Roy
- Burke, Thomas F
- McGahan, Anita M
- Responsibility
- Roy Ahn, Thomas F. Burke, Anita M. McGahan, editors
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvii, 333 p. : 50 illus., 48 illus. in color)
- ISBN
- 9781489975973
- 9781489975966 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Services Accessibility
- Urban Health
- Urban Health Services
- Abstract
- 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. áRecent studies suggest that urban areas will be a large majority in both the developing and developed worlds. Innovating for Healthy Urbanization is a proactive idea book to be read by undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in public and urban health.
- Contents
- Part I. Innovations to Address Specific Populations and Health -- Maternal Health Innovations, Urbanization and Health -- Child Health Innovations, Urbanization and Health -- Food Fortification and other Innovations to Address Childhood Malnutrition, in context of Urbanization and Health -- Part II. Innovations to Address Specific Urbanization-Related Threats to Health -- Anti-Trafficking Innovations, Urbanization and Global Health -- Urban Security, Innovations and Global health -- Innovations in Disaster Preparedness: Implications for Urbanization and Health -- Anti-Drug Counterfeiting Innovations, Urbanization, and Global Health -- Addressing Community Noise: Implications for Urbanization and Health -- Innovations to Address Global Climate Change in Cities -- Injury, Innovations, and Urban Health -- Part III. Frameworks, Cases and Tools to Address Urbanization and Health through Innovation -- Millenium Cities Initiative: An Example of Innovations in Urbanization and Health -- Medical Diagnostic Innovations in Urban Developing Settings -- Innovations in Global Health Education: implications for urban global health -- The Case for Comprehensive, Integrated and Standardized Measures of Health in Cities.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Mental Health and Illness in the City
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44597
edited by Niels Okkels, Christina Blanner Kristiansen, Povl Munk-Jorgensen.
--Singapore:
Springer
, c2017.
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This book highlights a broad range of issues on mental health and illness in large cities. It presents the epidemiology of mental disorders in cities, cultural issues of urban mental health care, and community care in large cities and urban slums. It also includes chapters on homelessness, crime and racism - problems that are increasingly prevalent in many cities world wide. Finally, it looks at the increasing challenges of mental disorders in rapidly growing cities. The book is aimed at an int…
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- Other Authors
- Okkels, Niels
- Kristiansen, Christina Blanner
- Munk-Jorgensen, Povl
- Responsibility
- edited by Niels Okkels, Christina Blanner Kristiansen, Povl Munk-Jorgensen
- Place of Publication
- Singapore
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2017
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Series Title
- Springer reference
- Mental health and illness worldwide
- ISBN
- 9789811007521
- ISSN
- 2511-8323
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Mental Disorders - epidemiology
- Mental Health Services
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Urban Health
- Notes
- "Living reference work."
- Abstract
- This book highlights a broad range of issues on mental health and illness in large cities. It presents the epidemiology of mental disorders in cities, cultural issues of urban mental health care, and community care in large cities and urban slums. It also includes chapters on homelessness, crime and racism - problems that are increasingly prevalent in many cities world wide. Finally, it looks at the increasing challenges of mental disorders in rapidly growing cities. The book is aimed at an international audience and includes contributions from clinicians and researchers worldwide.
- Contents
- Crime, Illegal Drugs, and Mental Health -- Development of Mental Health Services in a Major City in Latin America: Santiago -- Discrimination in Urban Settings -- Green Environment and Mental Health in the City -- History of Urban Mental Illness -- Homelessness and Challenges of Community Care -- Homicide and Suicide in Megacities -- Implementing Community Care in Large Cities and Informal Settlements: An African Perspective -- Institutions: Prisons and Asylums and the Deinstitutionalization -- Loneliness and Single-Person Households: Issues of Kodoku-Shi and Hikikomori in Japan -- Mental Health and Urban Life: Experiences from Colombia -- Mental Health Care in 11 Major Cities Over Two Decades -- Migration and Urban Mental Health in China -- Prospects and Challenges of Mental Health Services in a Major City in Latin America: Rio de Janeiro -- Religious Perspectives in Urban and Rural Mental Health in the Muslim World -- Review of Urban Mental Health -- Revisiting the Virtuous City: Learning from the Past to Improve Modern Urban Mental Health -- Urban Design and Mental Health -- Urban-Rural Differences in Major Mental Health Conditions.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Perspectives of Knowledge Management in Urban Health
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat30291
edited by Michael Christopher Gibbons, Rajeev Bali, Nilmini Wickramasinghe.
--New York, NY:
Springer Science+Business Media
, c2010.
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- Location
- Online
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- Author
- Gibbons, Michael Christopher
- Other Authors
- Bali, Rajeev
- Wickramasinghe, Nilmini
- Responsibility
- edited by Michael Christopher Gibbons, Rajeev Bali, Nilmini Wickramasinghe
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Date of Publication
- c2010
- Series Title
- Healthcare delivery in the information age
- ISBN
- 9781441956446
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Medical records - Data processing
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Perspectives of knowledge management in urban health
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat24544
Gibbons, Michael Christopher.
--New York, NY:
Springer
, 2010.
- Call Number
- WA 26.5 P467 2010
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Call Number
- WA 26.5 P467 2010
- Author
- Gibbons, Michael Christopher
- Other Authors
- Bali, Rajeev K
- Wickramasinghe, Nilmini
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2010
- Physical Description
- 220 p.
- Series Title
- Healthcare delivery in the information age
- ISBN
- 9781441956439
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Urban Health Services - organization & administration
- Public Health Informatics
- Information Management - methods
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
Strategic urban health communication
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33827
Charles C. Okigbo, editor.
--New York:
Springer
, c2014.
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- Location
- Online
- Available Online
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- Other Authors
- Okigbo, Charles C.
- Responsibility
- Charles C. Okigbo, editor
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvii, 225 pages)
- ISBN
- 9781461493358 (electronic bk.)
- 9781461493341
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Developing Countries
- Health Communication - methods
- Health Promotion - methods
- Urban Health Services - organization & administration
- Urban Health
- Urban Population
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Urban health
- Public health
- Contents
- 1. Strategy: What It Is -- 2. Strategic Communication Campaigns -- 3. Urbanization, Population, and Health Myths: Addressing Common Misconceptions with Strategic Health Communication -- 4. “Soaps” for Social and Behavioral Change -- 5. Strategic Health Communication in Urban Settings: A Template for Training Modules -- 6. Risk, Crisis, and Emergency Communication in Developing Countries: Identifying the Needs of Urban Populations -- 7. Strategic Health Communication for Cancer Prevention -- 8. Strategic Health Communication -- 9. Integrating HIV/FP Programs: Opportunities for Strategic Communication -- 10. Communicating for Action: Tackling Health Inequity in Urban Areas -- 11. Beyond Thinking and Planning Strategically to Improve Urban Residents’ Health -- 12. Health Communication Strategies for Sustainable Development in a Globalized World -- 13. Urbanization and Strategic Health Communication in India -- 14. Urban Health Communication Strategy of Pro-Poor Growth for Sustained Improvement in Health in South Asia -- 15. The Role of Sports in Strategic Health Promotion -- 16. The Internet as a Sex Education Tool: A Case Study of an Online Thai Discussion Board -- 17. Advertising and Childhood Obesity in China.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
