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• Title:Urban health : readings in the social, built, and physical environments of U.S. cities / edited by H. Patricia Hynes and Russ Lopez.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Hynes, H. Patricia.
  Lopez, Russ.
  
• Published/Created:Sudbury, Mass. ; Toronto : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, ©2009.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA380 .U7175 2009
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Urban health--United States.
  Public health--United States.
  
• Medical Subjects: Urban Health--United States.
  Environment Design--United States.
  Health Status Disparities--United States.
  Public Health--United States.
  Socioeconomic Factors--United States.
  Urbanization--United States.
  
• Description:xxiii, 302 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0763752452 (paper)
  9780763752453 (paper)
  
• Contents:Sect. I. Social Environment
  Article 1. Age of Extremes: Concentrated Affluence and Poverty in the Twenty-First Century / Douglas S. Massey
  Article 2. Health Inequities in the United States: Prospects and Solutions / Dennis Raphael
  Article 3. To Mitigate, Resist, or Undo: Addressing Structural Influences on the Health of Urban Populations / Arline T. Geronimus
  Article 4. Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy / Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush and Felton Earls
  Sect. II. Built Environment
  Article 5. Housing and Health: Time Again for Public Health Action / James Krieger and Donna L. Higgins
  Article 6. Indoor Environments and Health: Moving into the 21st Century / Jonathan M. Samet and John D. Spengler
  Article 7. Urban Sprawl and Public Healdi / Howard Frumkin
  Article 8. Obesity, Physical Activity, and the Urban Environment: Public Healdi Research Needs / Russ Lopez and H. Patricia Hynes
  Sect. III. Physical Environment
  Article 9. Healdi, Wealth, and Air Pollution: Advancing Theory and Methods / Marie S. O'Neill, Michael Jerrett, Ichiro Kawachi, Jonathan I. Levy, Aaron J. Cohen, Nelson Gouveia, Paul Wilkinson, Tony Fletcher, Luis Cifuentes and Joel Schwartz
  Article 10. Examining Urban Brownfields through the Public Health "Macroscope" / Jill S. Litt, Nga L. Tran and Thomas A. Burke
  Article 11. Current Appraisal of Toxic Wastes and Race in the I United States - 2007 / Robin Saha
  Article 12. Urban Horticulture in the Contemporary United States: Personal and Community Benefits / H. Patricia Hynes and Genevieve Howe
  Article 13. Cities: The Vital Core / Joel Rogers.