Advancing Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment Implementing a Systems Approach /

• Main Authors: Gatzweiler, Franz W. (Author), Zhu, Yong-Guan (Author), Diez Roux, Anna V. (Author), Capon, Anthony (Author), Donnelly, Christel (Author), Salem, Gérard (Author), Ayad, Hany M. (Author), Speizer, Ilene (Author), Nath, Indira (Author), Boufford, Jo I. (Author), Hanaki, Keisuke (Author), Rietveld, Luuk C. (Author), Ritchie, Pierre (Author), Jayasinghe, Saroj (Author), Parnell, Susan (Author), Zhang, Yi (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Urban Health and Wellbeing, Systems Approaches,
• Subjects: Environment.; Public health.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Environmental health.; Environmental policy.; Environmental Health.; Environmental Policy.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Public Health.

This book addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective and provides an appealing integrated urban development strategy based on a 10-year global interdisciplinary research programme created by the International Council for Science (ICSU), and sponsored by the InterAcademy Part...

Table of Contents:

• Background
• Introduction: Urban transformations and health
• Context and relevance: why cities and why urban health
• Policy relevance and decision making
• A systems approach to urban health and wellbeing
• Implementing the systems approach: a conceptual framework
• Vision and goals of the programme
• Guiding principles and thematic areas.