Innovating for Healthy Urbanization

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 liv...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ahn, Roy (Editor), Burke, Thomas F. (Editor), McGahan, Anita M. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Section 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
  • Section 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
  • Section 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.