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Bringing public health into urban revitalization : workshop summary / National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.) ; Robert Pool, Kathleen R. Stratton, rapporteurs.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.), author.
- Conference Name:
- Bringing Public Health into Urban Revitalization (Workshop) (2014 : Washington, D.C.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--Management.
- Public health.
- Urban renewal--United States.
- Urban renewal.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (98 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed March 18, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 0-309-37998-9
- 0-309-37996-2
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