The Built Environment and Public Health.

Intro -- The Built Environment and Public Health -- Contents -- Preface -- The Author -- Part One Background and History -- Chapter 1 Introduction to the Built Environment and Health -- Dimensions of the Environment -- Is the Built Environment Really an Environmental Factor? -- How to Evaluate the Built Environment? -- Public Perceptions and Assumptions Regarding the Built Environment -- Cross-Disciplinary Nature of the Study of the Built Environment -- Placing the Analysis of the Built Environment into a Broader Context -- Influences on the Built Environment -- Chapter 2 History -- The Pre-Industrial Era -- The Era of Industrialization and Urbanization: 1825-1930 -- Reform Movements, New Technologies, and Changes in Urban Planning and Architecture: 1825-1930 -- Later Reforms and New Initiatives 1930-1980 -- The Current Era: 1980-2010 and Beyond -- Part Two Community Design -- Chapter 3 Planning and Urban Design -- Demographic, Economic, and Social Trends -- Land Use and Planning Controls -- Metropolitan Structure and Health -- Chapter 4 Transportation Policies -- Current Patterns of Transportation in the United States -- Automobiles and Health -- Highways and Health -- Mass Transit and Health -- Bike Safety and Infrastructure -- Walking and Health -- Chapter 5 Healthy Housing and Housing Assistance Programs -- The Housing Problem -- The Regulatory Framework -- Chapter 6 Infrastructure and Natural Disasters -- Natural Disasters: An Introduction -- Natural Disaster Response -- Part Three Environmental Media -- Chapter 7 Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality -- Overview -- Land Use, the Built Environment, and Air Quality -- Air Pollutants -- Air Pollution-Associated Health Conditions -- Chapter 8 Water -- Impact of Water on Health -- Infrastructure -- Drinking Water -- Chapter 9 Food, Nutrition, and Food Security -- Foodborne Illnesses -- Food Insecurity.

Environmental Effects of Farming and Food Production -- Part Four Population Health -- Chapter 10 Vulnerable Populations -- The Built Environment and Vulnerability -- The Definition of Race -- Poverty -- Children and Environmental Health -- The Elderly and the Built Environment -- Persons with Disabilities -- Chapter 11 Mental Health, Stressors, and Health Care Environments -- The Beginnings -- Biophilia -- The Role of Stressors and Allostatic Load -- Chapter 12 Social Capital -- Theory and Historical Beginnings -- Measuring Social Capital -- Improving Social Capital -- Chapter 13 Environmental Justice -- The Environmental Justice Movement -- A History of the Environmental Justice Movement -- Disproportionate Burden -- Additional Limitations of Environmental Justice Actions -- Lessons -- Part Five Tools and Applications -- Chapter 14 Assessment Tools and Data Sources -- Tools to Inform Decision Making -- Information Tools -- Chapter 15 Health Policy and Programs -- Public Health Interventions -- Community Interventions -- School-Based Interventions -- Individual Level Interventions -- Legal Basis for Built Environment Regulation -- Inserting Health into City General Plans -- Chapter 16 Sustainability -- Defining Sustainability -- Sustainability and Equity -- Measures of Sustainability -- The Local Sustainability Movement -- The Role of Environmental Design in Sustainability -- Global Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases -- Glossary -- References -- Index.

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