Urban Health
A Global Perspective
- 1st Edition, Volume 15 - August 13, 2024
- Latest edition
- Editors: Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan, Bharat Dahiya, Madhuri Sharma, Saswati Mookherjee, Ranita Karmakar
- Language: English
Urban Health: A Global Perspective, Fifteenth Edition outlines the problems, issues, and solutions to health in urban areas on a global scale. The book focuses on several issues wh… Read more
Urban Health: A Global Perspective, Fifteenth Edition outlines the problems, issues, and solutions to health in urban areas on a global scale. The book focuses on several issues which impact the health of cities, such as the environment, pollution, climate change, ecology, social equity, health inequalities, and health problems. In addition, it covers several empirical studies which explain economic, political, and the social issues influencing health in urban areas. Pandemics and sustainable development will also be discussed.
- Provides global case studies on the issues of urban health and air quality
- Emphasizes the importance of health and sustainability from environmental pollution and climate change
- Discusses principles from medical professionals and researchers on health in urban areas
Researchers, scientists, students, and academicians in the fields of environmental science, urban planning, sustainability, geography, ecology, and economyProfessionals and policymakers
1. Importance of Urban Health in Today’s world
Section 1: Urban Health and its Drivers
2. Urban Form and Mobility in Cities and Its Impact on Health: Case Study
3. Housing, Food and Nutrition and effect on health
4. Social and Spatial Segregation and Health Impact
5. Public and Private Health Care System and Healthy cities
Section 2: Health Inequalities in Urban Areas
6. Forces Behind Health Inequalities in Cities
7. Health differentials between religious groups
8. Inequalities in access to basic infrastructure and effect on Health
9. Economic inequalities and Health
Section 3: Climate Change and Urban Health
10. Extreme weather events and resultant health problems
11. Rising temperatures and impact on health and Nutrition
12. Air quality and related health effects: Case Study
13. Weather extremes and Vector borne diseases
Section 4: Covid 19, Future Diseases and Urban Health
14. Inequality in Public Health facilities in Urban areas
15. Impact of COVID 19 on Mental Health of Elderly and Youth
16. Measures to tackle future Heath emergencies in urban areas
Section 5: Health and Sustainable Urban Development
17. Measures to reduce Malnutrition in Cities and Build healthy cities
18. Measures to reduce spread of Communicable diseases in Cities
19. Universal Health coverage in Cities: Case studies
20. Role of Governance in building Healthy Cities
21. Role of Urban green and waterbodies in improving health of cities
22. Incorporation of Health at the heart of Sustainable Development and Future Smart Cities
Section 1: Urban Health and its Drivers
2. Urban Form and Mobility in Cities and Its Impact on Health: Case Study
3. Housing, Food and Nutrition and effect on health
4. Social and Spatial Segregation and Health Impact
5. Public and Private Health Care System and Healthy cities
Section 2: Health Inequalities in Urban Areas
6. Forces Behind Health Inequalities in Cities
7. Health differentials between religious groups
8. Inequalities in access to basic infrastructure and effect on Health
9. Economic inequalities and Health
Section 3: Climate Change and Urban Health
10. Extreme weather events and resultant health problems
11. Rising temperatures and impact on health and Nutrition
12. Air quality and related health effects: Case Study
13. Weather extremes and Vector borne diseases
Section 4: Covid 19, Future Diseases and Urban Health
14. Inequality in Public Health facilities in Urban areas
15. Impact of COVID 19 on Mental Health of Elderly and Youth
16. Measures to tackle future Heath emergencies in urban areas
Section 5: Health and Sustainable Urban Development
17. Measures to reduce Malnutrition in Cities and Build healthy cities
18. Measures to reduce spread of Communicable diseases in Cities
19. Universal Health coverage in Cities: Case studies
20. Role of Governance in building Healthy Cities
21. Role of Urban green and waterbodies in improving health of cities
22. Incorporation of Health at the heart of Sustainable Development and Future Smart Cities
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Volume: 15
- Published: August 13, 2024
- Language: English
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Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan
Prof. Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan is the founder of the Geography Department at Jadavpur University. She has taught at North Bengal University and The University of Burdwan as full time Faculty and as Guest Faculty at the University of Tripura, WBSU, Calcutta University, Kalyani University. She is an Urban Geographer who combines the strengths of Regional Planning and Human Geography. She has 60 research papers and 3 books to her credit. She has delivered lectures across Universities in India. She has taken up projects under UGC and has been supervising several research fellows. She has guided more than 20 scholars who have obtained their doctoral degree and has also supervised several MPhil scholars. She is on the editorial board of many renowned journals such as Hill Geographer, Regional Science Policy and Practice, RSAI, Indian Journal of Regional Science and at present is the Editor of Geographical Review of India, Kolkata.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Geography, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, IndiaBD
Bharat Dahiya
Prof. Bharat Dahiya is a Glocal Sustainability Leader, Professional Keynote Speaker, Urbanist, Planner, Geographer, Futurist, Educator, Team Leader, and Mentor. He is Director of Research Center for Sustainable Development and Innovation at the School of Global Studies, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. He is an Extraordinary Professor at the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, and a Distinguished Professor at Urban Youth Academy, Seoul, Republic of Korea. He is also a Founding Board Member of the World Smart Cities Economic Development Commission under the World Business Angels Investment Forum. Prof. Dahiya read for his M.A. in Geography from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Master of Planning from School of Planning and Architecture, both based in New Delhi, India. He holds a PhD in Urban Governance, Planning and Environment from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Research Center for Sustainable Development and Innovation, School of Global Studies, Thammasat University, Bangkok, ThailandMS
Madhuri Sharma
Prof. Madhuri Sharma is an Associate Professor at University of Tennessee and specializes in urban planning and management of cities.She had studied the patterns and processes of racial/ethnic residential intermixing/segregation, poverty, income inequality and socio-economic disparity within U.S.A, India and the developing world, Within USA, she has explored the role of contemporary housing market elements on residential choice(s) and inter/intra-urban diversity and segregation/intermixing patterns. She has initiated research on measuring poverty and income divide between the richest and the poorest segments in our society, and its impacts on the health outcomes (physical, emotional, physiological) of people across various racial/ethnic groups and gender.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, The University of Tennessee, Tennessee, USASM
Saswati Mookherjee
Prof. Dr. Saswati Mookherjee is a retired Prof & Head, Post -graduate Department of Geography in Lady Brabourne College, Government of West Bengal. She has completed her B.A. (Hons) in Geography (1973), from Lady Brabourne College, Calcutta University; M.A. from JNU (1976) and PhD from Calcutta University. (1984), She has worked as UGC/JRF/SRF, Department of Geography, University of Calcutta (1979-1983). Later, she was Posted at Lady Brabourne College in 2007 then became Professor in Geography (WBSES) in 2011 and retired as Professor and Head, Department of Geography, Lady Brabourne College in 2014.Since 2014 she taught as Guest Faculty in Aliah University, West Bengal State University, Calcutta University and Jadavpur University, and still attached with Post Graduate Deparrtment of Geography Lady Brabourne College. She was an Honorary Academic Director of Advanced Research Centre in Human Geography, Lady Brabourne College.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Geography, Lady Brabourne College, West Bengal, Kolkata, IndiaRK
Ranita Karmakar
Ranita Karmakar is a Senior Research Fellow at Department of Geography, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India and currently is working towards her doctoral research. She has completed her Graduation and Masters in Geography from Lady Brabourne College, Calcutta University with the specialization of population geography. Her previous work was published as book chapter in an edited volume entitled “Water Supply for the Urban Poor in Indian Cities Issues and Challenges Edited by Dr.Saleha Jamal and Dr. Abha Lakshmi Singh by B.R.Publishing Corporation.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Wes Bengal, IndiaRead Urban Health on ScienceDirect