... Institute on Urban Health Research, Northeastern University
Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice provides students in public
health, urban planning, ... approach to racial
and, 135 136; research on health and, 21, 34–37,
143; urban food environments and, 47
Hurricane Katrina: destruction and deaths from,
22...
... Justice and Health in the Bronx 97
Methods 10 1
Findings 11 0
Implications of Findings 11 1
Lessons on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Urban Health Research 11 7
Conclusion 11 9
Summary 11 9
6 RACIAL ...
Editors
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CONTENTS
Preface xi
The Contributors xiii
PART ONE
INTRODUCTION 1
1 FRAMEWORK...
... Anthropology
to Reduce the Burden of Diabetes 28 4
Summary 28 5
PART FOUR
PUTTING INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES
INTO PRACTICE 29 3
12 USING INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO
STRENGTHEN URBAN HEALTH RESEARCH ... Immigrants 24 0
Economic and Social Infl uences on Aging and Health Policy 24 2
Social and Environmental Considerations 24 6
Toward a Conceptual F...
...
approaches to urban health research and practice. Our goals are to familiarize readers
with the emerging concepts and principles that characterize interdisciplinary urban
health research, to ... in urban areas, and by 2 030 ,
three - quarters will live in cities.
1
,
2
For health researchers and practitioners, under-
standing how the urban envir...
... eighth and fi nal theme we highlight is the value of interdisciplinary approaches
to integrating and reconciling research and practice that aims to improve population
health and that seeks to promote ... Community -
Based Participatory Research for Health. San Francisco: Jossey - Bass, 2005.
29. Cook, W. K. Integrating research and action: A systematic...
... environmental health and the built environment that led them to
the public health and urban planning disciplines. In tackling complex urban environ-
mental health problems, community - based activists ... ENVIRONMENT, URBAN PLANNING,
AND URBAN PUBLIC HEALTH
Public health and urban planning arose in the early part of the twentieth century as
related int...
... pub-
lic health. American Journal of Public Health, 94, no. 4 (2004): 541 – 5 46.
6. Corburn, J. Urban planning and health disparities: Implications for research and
practice. Planning Practice and ... Projects) and academic research in
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Notes 39
NOTES
1. Delemos, J. L. Community - based participatory...
... highlighting circum-
stances in Detroit. We then describe efforts of, and lessons learned by, community - based
participatory research (CBPR) partnerships working to understand the health implica-
tions ... of good - paying, blue - collar employment
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PART
2
INTERDISCIPLINARY
APPROACHES TO
STUDYING CAUSE...
... behaviors and
health of urban populations. In this project,
academic researchers and representatives
of health service and community-based org-
anizations used theoretical perspectives
and research ... enrich research and the understandings
gained from that research. Extant research aimed at understanding and addressing
contributions of the retail food environment...
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Infl uences on Children’s Health in the Urban Context 69
specifi c micro - , meso - , and exosystem characteristics, as well as to certain proximal ... J., Parker, E. A., and Becker, A. B. Review of community -
based research: Assessing partnership approaches to improve public health. Annual
Review of Publi...
...
70
and is also related to restrictions in outdoor
play for fi ve - year - old children and to poorer social and motor skills.
71
Further, children
and families have smaller social networks and ... years) on urban kinder-
garten children ’ s physical health and well - being. They also studied children ’ s social
knowledge and competence, emotional health...
... Environment and children ’ s mental health: Residential density and
low - income children. In E. Baum and J. E. Singer, eds., Handbook of Psychology
and Health, Vol. II, Issues in Child Health and ... Kawachi, I., and Berkman, L. F. Social ties and mental health. Journal of Urban
Health, 78 (2001): 458 – 467.
84. Kawachi, I., Kennedy, B. P., and Glass, R. Social...
... Participatory Research 95
COMMUNITY - BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH
Since the 1990s, there has been growing and convergent interest in minority health dis-
parities and community - based participatory research ... community - based participatory research, multi-
level models of causation, and geographic information systems.
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... certifi cate pro-
gram in GISc and brings technical expertise in GIS to the partnership. Research based
in geographic information science (GISc) and environmental and health spatial analy-
ses is conducted ... host organization develop-
ing the agenda and chairing the meeting.
To better understand health disparities in the Bronx, we set out to explore whether
environmen...
... sociodemographic factors, the fi nd-
ings of this research point to a health and environmental justice crisis.
LESSONS ON INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES
TO URBAN HEALTH RESEARCH
Benefi ts and Challenges ... of, and lessons
learned by, working in an intersectoral part-
nership (e.g., differing mandates, resources,
and power) and the need for research fi nd-
ings...