Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research

Herausgeber: Takano, Takehito

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Half the world's population lives in Urban areas. The United Nations estimates that the urban population of 1995 will have doubled by 2025. By 2015, it is expected that there will be 33 megacities, 20 of them in Asia. Urbanization affects human health in unprecedented ways. Attempts to improve the health of citizens necessitate the development of comprehensive schemes integrating a wide range of factors pertaining to urban issues. Healthy Cites and Urban Policy Research is a collection of papers by leading experts from academia or international organisations who have been involved in the Healthy Cities Movement. It is the first academic work to combine public health with urban planning. Contemporary issues from various perspectives are included which address evaluation, evidence-based practice, accountability, community participation and information technology. Agis Tsouros, Jill Farrington, Hisashi Ogawa, Colin Fudge, June Crown, Keiko Nakamura, Frances Baum, Evelyne de Leeuw and Irene Lee.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9780415288446
• ISBN-10: 0415288444
• Artikelnr.: 21571636

Autorenporträt

Takehito Takano

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Development of "Healthy Cities" and Needs of Research 2. The
Third Phase (1998-2002) of the Healthy Cities Project in Europe 3. Healthy
Cities Project in the Western Pacific 4. Health and Sustainability Gains
from Urban Regeneration and Development 5. Analysis of Health Determinants
for Healthy Cities Programme in Europe 6. Indicators for Healthy Cities:
Tools for Evidence-based Urban Policy Formation 7. The Effectiveness of
Community-based Health Promotion in Healthy Cities Programme 8.
Applicability of Information Technologies for Health 9. Research
Responsibility and Accountability in Nurturing Healthy Cities 10. Examples
of Research Activities for Healthy Cities 11. Baseline Data in ASEAN Member
Countries 12. Country and City Reports at the International Conference for
Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research, 2000. Afterword.