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Bringing public health into urban revitalization :

Pool, Robert, 1955-

Bringing public health into urban revitalization : workshop summary / Robert Pool and Kathleen Stratton, rapporteurs ; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine. - 1 online resource (1 PDF file (xi, 85 pages))

Title from PDF title page. "The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine."

Includes bibliographical references.

FrontMatter; Reviewers; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Utilizing Green Technologies in Washington, DC; 3 Rebuilding Efforts in Detroit, Michigan; 4 Transforming New York City; 5 Cross-Cutting Issues That Face All Urban Environments; 6 Closing Remarks; Appendix A: Workshop Agenda; Appendix B: Speaker and Moderator Biographical Sketches

A particularly valuable opportunity to improve public health arises when an urban area is being redesigned and rebuilt following some type of serious disruption, whether it is caused by a sudden physical event, such as a hurricane or earthquake, or steady economic and social decline that may have occurred over decades. On November 10, 2014, the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine held a workshop concerning the ways in which the urban environment, conceived broadly from factors such as air quality and walkability to factors such as access to fresh foods and social support systems, can affect health. Participants explored the various opportunities to reimagine the built environment in a city and to increase the role of health promotion and protection during the process of urban revitalization. Bringing Public Health into Urban Revitalization summarizes the presentations and discussions from this workshop.

9780309379960 0309379962

10.17226/21831 doi

101674809 DNLM


Public health--Congresses.
Urban renewal--Congresses.
Urban Health.
City Planning.
Environment Design.
Health Promotion.
Urban Renewal.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Social Services & Welfare.
Public health.
Urban renewal.


United States.


Congress.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.

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2016 F-290 WA 380