Urban Health

A Global Perspective

1st Edition, Volume 15 - July 18, 2024
Imprint: Elsevier
Editors: Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan, Bharat Dahiya, Madhuri Sharma, Saswati Mookherjee, Ranita Karmakar
Language: English
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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

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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.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Developments in Environmental Science
Copyright
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1. Urban health in the 21st century: Challenges and opportunities
1. Introduction: urban health and good health
2. Importance of urban health
3. Necessity of urban healthcare systems
4. Major components of the urban health care system
5. Changing disease pattern and treatment in urban areas
6. Changing urban healthcare system from towns to smart cities
7. In summary
Chapter 2. Pervasiveness of stunting among children under-5 years of age in urban India with special reference to West Bengal: An examination from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
Chapter 3. Perspective on healthcare and healthcare facilities among in the educational sector
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Results and discussion
4. Conclusion
Chapter 4. Access to basic water and sanitation infrastructure among women in African informal settlements: Implications for health
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
3. Limitations of the study
4. Materials and methods
5. Results and discussion
6. Challenges and solutions
7. Recommendations
8. Conclusion
Chapter 5. Migrants’ food systems in foreign cities: Socio-spatial segregation and implications for health
1. Introduction
2. Limitations of the study
3. Materials and methods
4. Results and discussion
5. Challenges and solutions
6. Recommendations
7. Conclusions
Chapter 6. Counterstories amplifying the importance of radical culturally responsive healing from historical trauma
1. Introduction
2. Importance of radical cultural-responsive healing for intergenerational trauma
3. Disruption of intergenerational trauma from settler colonialism within the indigenous communities
4. Radical community healing for intergenerational trauma among the African Americans
5. Overcoming intergenerational incarceration trauma Japanese Americans and residents
6. Discussion
Chapter 7. Health inequalities on the basis of religion in the slum community of Kolkata
1. Introduction
2. Objectives
3. Methodology
4. Relevant studies
5. Background of Ata Bag slum and Smith Hoe Lane slum
6. Scenario of Ata Bag slum
7. The scenario of Smith Hoe Lane slum
8. Health inequality measurement status
9. Problems of the healthcare system in these two slums
10. Conclusion
Chapter 8. Health inequalities between urban and peri-urban communities in Bankura District, West Bengal, India
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
3. Materials and methods
4. Results and discussions
5. Limitation
6. Recommendations and conclusion
Chapter 9. Analysis of the spatial efficiency of pharmacy distribution using GIS: The case of the city of Mohammedia, Morocco
1. Introduction
2. Limitations of the study
3. Materials and methods
4. Results and discussion
5. Challenges and solutions
6. Recommendations
7. Conclusions
Chapter 10. Prevalence and factors influencing on hypertension among reproductive age group of women in urban and rural areas of eastern Indian states: Evidence from the national family health survey-5
1. Introduction
2. The rationale of the study
3. Study area
4. Database and methodology
5. Results and discussion
6. Limitations of the study
7. Policy implication and recommendations
8. Conclusion
Chapter 11. Extreme weather events and health inequalities: Exploring vulnerability and resilience in marginalized communities
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Results and discussion
4. Challenges and solutions
5. Recommendations
6. Limitations of the study
7. Conclusions
Chapter 12. Hotspot mapping for asthma prediction—A case study of the Kolkata metropolitan area
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Result and discussion
4. Significant association
5. Correlation
6. Limitations of the study
7. Recommendations
8. Conclusion
Chapter 13. Indoor air quality and health: An emerging challenge in Indian megacities
1. Introduction
2. Origins and characteristics of ambient and indoor air pollutants
3. Indoor air quality insight to megacities of India
4. Recommendations to improve IAQ for a healthy urban environment
5. Conclusion
Chapter 14. Rising temperature and urban health in Salem, India: A spatial-temporal analysis of thermal zones and land use changes
1. Introduction
2. Study area
3. Materials and methods
4. Results and discussions
5. Conclusion
Chapter 15. Open public spaces as a commodity for healthy neighborhoods: From new needs and pressures to innovative proposals
1. Introduction
2. Urban public/shared spaces: Commodities for the new normal city
3. An operational approach: Case studies
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Chapter 16. Child and youth mental health referrals and care planning needs during the pandemic waves
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Results and discussion
4. Conclusions
Chapter 17. Navigating precarity: Health challenges faced by the transwomen population in Kolkata during the COVID-19 pandemic
1. Introduction
2. Data and methods
3. Findings
4. COVID-19 vaccination
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
Chapter 18. Lifestyle and the early onset of diabetes mellitus among young adults
1. Introduction
2. Objectives
3. Methods
4. Choice of hospitals
5. Results
6. Discussion
7. Limitation of the study
8. Conclusion
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Chapter 19. Toward pandemic proofing Mumbai: Rethinking sustainable urban development based on the COVID-19 experience
1. Introduction
2. Rationale for the study
3. Methodology
4. Results
5. Discussion
6. Limitations of the study
7. Conclusions and recommendations
Chapter 20. prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and dementia among older adults in urban India: Evidence from Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI), 2017–18
1. Introduction
2. Research gap
3. Significance and objectives of the study
4. Data and methods
5. Results
6. Discussion
7. Conclusion
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Chapter 21. Urban health in Indonesia: Progress and prospects for urban resilience
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Results and discussion
4. Conclusions
Chapter 22. Financing a healthy city; auditing of municipal budget on water, sewerage, and solid waste management, a case of Kochi
1. Introduction
2. Objective
3. Limitations
4. Literature review
5. Materials and methods
6. Results and discussions
7. Recommendations
8. Conclusion
Chapter 23. Food and housing insecurity: Addressing the dual burden of health risks
1. Introduction
2. Limitations
3. Materials and methods
4. Results and discussion
5. Challenges
6. Solutions
7. Recommendations
8. Conclusions
Chapter 24. Urban health in the 21st century: Exploring innovative measures to reduce the spread of communicable diseases
1. Introduction
2. Limitations of the study
3. Materials and methods
4. Results and discussion
5. Challenges and solutions
6. Recommendations
7. Conclusion
Chapter 25. Exploring the linkages between urban heat islands and urban pollution islands in tropical countries: A comprehensive review
1. Introduction
2. Background of the study
3. Materials and methods
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusion
Chapter 26. Role of urban green spaces and drinking water for improving city's health and quality of life of Kolkata Municipal Corporation
1. Introduction
2. Study area
3. Literature review
4. Database and methodology
5. Urban Green Space in Kolkata Municipal Corporation
6. Status of water resources in Kolkata
7. Surface water
8. Major findings of the study
Chapter 27. Green and blue infrastructure in high-density megacities of global south: A critical evaluation of benefits and obstacles for enhancing the well-being of Hong Kong's aging population
1. Introduction
2. Green and blue infrastructure and the aging population
3. Benefits of green and blue infrastructure in a high-dense Asian megacity context: Hong Kong
4. Opportunities for Hong Kong
5. Challenges in implementation
6. Hong Kong's green and blue infrastructure projects' success and lessons
7. Conclusion
Chapter 28. Collage urbanism: Creating sustainable cities through equitable urban resources for good health
1. Introduction
2. Dataset and methodology
3. Equitable urban health: Cornerstones for sustainability
4. Differentiated urban conditions and urban binaries: Creating health inequities
5. Built environment and health inequity
6. Collage urbanism—Bringing equity to urbanisms of multiplicity
7. The lessons learned
8. Discussions
9. Conclusion and way ahead
Chapter 29. Incorporation of health at the heart of sustainable development and future smart cities
1. Introduction
2. Limitations of the study
3. Materials and methods
4. The rationale of the study
5. Case study
6. Results and discussions
7. Challenges and solutions
8. Recommendations
9. Conclusions
Chapter 30. Cities: Creating Trauma-Informed, Culturally Sustainable Smart (TICSS) cities for psychological well-being
1. Introduction
2. Institutionalized and structural complex traumas due to Eurocentric (white) policies and actions
3. Discussion
Index

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, India

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, Thailand

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, USA

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, India

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, India

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