Making Healthy Places

This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published by Island Press in 2004. That book sparked a range of inquiries into the connections between constructed environments, particularly cities and suburbs, and human health. Since then, numerous studies have extended and refined the book's research and reporting. Making Healthy Places offers a fresh and comprehensive look at this vital subject today, from the scale of buildings up to the scale of metropolitan areas.

There is no other book with the depth, breadth, vision and accessibility that this book offers. Like a well-trained doctor, it presents a diagnosis of-and offers treatment for-problems related to the built environment. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence, with contributions from experts in a range of fields, it imparts a wealth of practical information, emphasizing demonstrated and promising solutions to common problems. Health professionals, planners, architects, developers, elected officials, students, and concerned members of the public will find this book invaluable.

Auteur

Andrew L. Dannenberg, M.D., M.P.H., serves as a consultant to and formerly was Team Leader of the Healthy Community Design Initiative in the National Center for Environmental Health at the CDC. He is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Howard Frumkin, M.D., Dr.P.H., is Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Washington. Richard J. Jackson, M.D., M.P.H., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA. Frumkin and Jackson are coauthors of Urban Sprawl and Public Health.

Contenu

Preface

Richard J. Jackson

Part I. Introduction

Chapter 1

An Introduction to Healthy Places

Howard Frumkin, Arthur M. Wendel, Robin Fran Abrams, and Emil Malizia

Part II. The Impact of Community Design on Health

Chapter 2

Community Design for Physical Activity

James F. Sallis, Rachel A. Millstein, and Jordan A. Carlson

Chapter 3

Food Environments

Carolyn Cannuscio and Karen Glanz

Chapter 4

Community Design and Air Quality

Jonathan M. Samet

Chapter 5

Injuries and the Built Environment

David A. Sleet, Rebecca B. Naumann, and Rose Anne Rudd

Chapter 6

Community Design for Water Quantity and Quality

Lorraine C. Backer

Chapter 7

Mental Health and the Built Environment

William C. Sullivan and Chun-Yen Chang

Chapter 8

Social Capital and Community Design

Caitlin Eicher and Ichiro Kawachi

Chapter 9

Vulnerable Populations and the Built Environment

Chris S. Kochtitzky

Part III. Diagnosing and Healing Our Built Environments

Chapter 10

Transportation and Land Use

Reid Ewing, Gail Meakins, Grace Bjarnson, and Holly Hilton

Chapter 11

Healthy Homes

James Krieger and David E. Jacobs

Chapter 12

Healthy WorkplacesDonna S. Heidel, L. Casey Chosewood,

Matthew Gillen, Paul Schulte, Gregory Wagner, Kenneth M. Wallingford, and Liz York

Chapter 13

Healthy Health Care Settings

Craig Zimring and Jennifer DuBose

Chapter 14

Healthy Schools

Howard Frumkin and Jared Fox

Chapter 15

Contact with Nature

Howard Frumkin and Jared Fox

Chapter 16

Resiliency to Disasters

Timothy Beatley

Part IV. Strategies for Healthy Places: A Toolbox

Chapter 17

Behavioral Choices and the Built Environment

Margaret Schneider

Chapter 18

Policy and Legislation for Healthy Places

Lisa M. Feldstein

Chapter 19

Community Engagement in Design and Planning

Manal J. Aboelata, Leah Ersoylu, and Larry Cohen

Chapter 20

Measuring, Assessing, and Certifying Healthy Places

Andrew L. Dannenberg and Arthur M. Wendel

Part V. Looking Outward, Looking Ahead

Chapter 21

Training the Next Generation to Promote Healthy Places

Nisha D. Botchwey and Matthew J. Trowbridge

Chapter 22

Healthy Places Research: Emerging Opportunities

Richard J. Jackson, Arthur M. Wendel, and Andrew L. Dannenberg

Chapter 23

Urban Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Jennifer C. Johnson and Sandro Galea

Chapter 24

Built Environments of the Future

Anthony G. Capon and Susan M. Thompson

Glossary

About the Editors

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Index