Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Urbanization and Health Promotion

Challenges and Opportunities

  • Chapter
Global Perspectives on Health Promotion Effectiveness

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Baum, F. (1998) Measuring effectiveness in community-based health promotion. In Davies, J. and Macdonald, G. (Eds.), Quality, Evidence, and Effectiveness in Health Promotion: Striving for Certainties, Chapter 4. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 68–91.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bell, K. & Popkin, B. (2002). The Road to Obesity or the Path to Preservation: Motorized Transportation and Obesity in China. Obesity Research . 10 (4):277- 83.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Brockerhoff, M. & Brennan, E. (1998). The Poverty of Cities Developing Regions. Population and Development Review, 24,1:75–114.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Burchell, R., Downs, A., McCann, B., Mukherji, S. (2005). Sprawl Costs; Economic Impacts of Unchecked Development. Washington: Island Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Butterworth, I. & Duhl, L. (2006) Healthy cities and the built environment: Documenting program impacts on psychological conceptions of place and community. ( In press ).

    Google Scholar 

  • Curtice, L., Springett, J. & Kennedy, A. (2001). 14. Evaluation in urban settings: the challenge of Healthy Cities. In I. Rootman & M. Goodstadt & B. Hyndman & D. V. McQueen & L. Potvin & J. Springett & E. Ziglio (Eds.), Evaluation in Health Promotion: Principles and Perspectives (pp. 309 334). Denmark: World Health Organization.

    Google Scholar 

  • Center for Transit-Oriented Development and the Center for Neighborhood Technology (2006). The Affordability Index. A New Tool for Measuring the True Affordability of a Housing Choice. The Brookings Institution, Urban Markets Initiative, Market Innovation Brief. Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. Washington, DC. (http://www.brookings.edu/metro/umi/20060127_affindex.pdf) Accessed on March 16, 2007).

    Google Scholar 

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, BRFSS, (2006). Available at: http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/brfss-smart/index.asp, Accessed on December 28, 2006).

    Google Scholar 

  • Cervero, R. & Gorham, R. (1995). Commuting in transit versus automobile neighborhoods. Journal of the American Planning Association, 61, 210–225.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cervero, R. (2006). Urbanization . Unpublished material presented at Urbanization and Effectiveness of Networks in Health Promotion meeting hosted by the International Union for Health Promotion and Education, August 16-17, 2006 in Atlanta, GA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Congress for the New Urbanism, 2007. Charter of the New Urbanism. http://www.cnu.org/sites/files/Charter.pdf (Accessed on March 16, 2007)

    Google Scholar 

  • Dannenberg AL, Bhatia R, Cole BL, Dora C, Fielding JE, Kraft K, McClymont-Peace D, Mindell J, Onyekere C, Roberts JA, Ross CL, Rutt CD, Scott-Samuel A, Tilson HH. (2006). Growing the Field of Health Impact Assessment in the United States: An Agenda for Research and Practice American Journal of Public Health . 96(2): 262–270.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Davis, M. (2006). Planet of Slums New Perspectives Quarterly, 23(2): 6–11.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • De Leeuw, E., Abbema E. & Commers M. (1998). Healthy Cities Policy Evaluation Final Report . Maastricht / EU DG V, Luxembourg: WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on Healthy Cities.

    Google Scholar 

  • De Leeuw, E. (2001). Global and local (global) health: the WHO Healthy Cities Programme. Global Change and Human Health, 2(1): 34–53.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • De Leeuw, E. & Skovgaard, T. (2005). Utility-driven evidence for healthy cities: Problems with evidence generation and application. Social Science & Medicine . 61, 1331–1341.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Donchin, M., Shemesh, AA., Horowitz, P., Daoud, N. (2006). Implementation of the Healthy Cities’ principles and strategies: an evaluation of the Israel Healthy Cities Network. Health Promot Int . 21(4): 266–273.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Duhl, L. (2006). Urbanization. Unpublished material presented at Urbanization and Effectiveness of Networks in Health Promotion meeting hosted by the International Union for Health Promotion and Education, August 16-17, 2006 in Atlanta, GA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Durkheim, E. (1897) Suicide: A study in sociology (JA Spaulding & G. Simpson, Trans.) Glencoe, IL: Free Press.(Original work published 1897) 1951.

    Google Scholar 

  • Engels, F. (1973). The condition of the working class in England in 1844. Moscow: Progress Publishers.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ewing, R., Frank, L. & Kreutzer, R. (2006). Understanding the Relationship between Public Health and the Built Environment, a report prepared by Design, Community & Environment. A Report to the LEED-ND Committee.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ewing, R., Schmid, T., Killingsworth, R., Zlot, A., Raudenbush, S. (2003). Relationship between Urban Sprawl and Physical Activity, Obesity, and Morbidity. American Journal of Health Promotion , September/October. 18(1): 47–57.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ezzati, M., Lopez, A. D., Rodgers, A., & Murray, C. J. L. (2004). Comparative quantification of health risks: global and regional burden of disease attributable to selected major risk factors. World Health Organization: Geneva, Switzerland.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fields, G. (1999). City systems, urban history, and economic modernity: Urbanization and the Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Society. Berkeley Planning Journal, 13, 102–128.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fishman, R. (1993). The Decline of Megalopolis as a Cultural Center. In T. Barker & A. Sutcliffe, (Eds.), Megalopolis: The Giant City in History. London: Macmillan.

    Google Scholar 

  • Friedman, T. (2005) The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. NewYork NY: Farrar, Straus, Reese, and Giroux.

    Google Scholar 

  • Frontinus, SJ. (trans. Charles Bennett). (1961). Stratagems and the Aqueducts of Rome.Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Frank, LD., (2000). Land use and transportation interaction: Implications on public health and quality of life. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 20, 6–22. (Review Article)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Frumkin, H. (2002). Urban sprawl and public health. Public Health Rep . 117, 201–217.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Galea, S., Freudenberg, N. & Vlahov, D., (2005). Cities and population health. Soc Sci Med . 60, 1017–1033.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Graunt, J. (1662). Natural and Political Observations made upon the Bills of Mortality. London, UK: Martyn.

    Google Scholar 

  • Griscom, J. (1845). Sanitary condition of the laboring population of New York. New York: Harper & Brothers.

    Google Scholar 

  • Grob, GN. (2002). The deadly truth: a history of disease in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jacobs, J. (1961). The Death and Life of Great American Cities , New York: Random House.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hancock, T. & Duhl, L. (1988). Promoting Health in the Urban Context. WHO Healthy Cities Paper No. 1 Copenhagen: FADL. 55.

    Google Scholar 

  • Handy, S. (2005). Smart Growth and the transportation-land use connection: what does the research tell us? International Regional Science Review 28(2): 146–167.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hardoy, J.E., Mitlin, D. & Satterthwaite, D. (2001) Emvironmental Problems in an Urbanizing World. London: Earthscan.

    Google Scholar 

  • Harpham, T., Burton, S. & Blue, I. (2001). Healthy city projects in developing countries: the first evaluation. Health Promotion International . 16(2): 111–125.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kickbusch, I. (1989). Healthy cities: a working project and a growing movement. Health Promot . 4, 77–82.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kosof, S. (1991). The City Shaped. Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History . Bullfinch Press, London: Thames and Hudson Ltd.

    Google Scholar 

  • Landis, J. D., Deng, L. & Reilly, M., (2002). Growth Management Revisited: A Reassessment of its Efficacy, Price Effects and Impacts on Metropolitan Growth Patterns. Working Paper 2002 02. University of California: Institute of Urban and Regional Development.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lang, R & LeFurgy, J. (2003). Edgeless Cities: Examining the Noncentered Metropolis. Housing Policy Debate 14:3; 427–460.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lund, V.K. (2005). The healthy communities movement: Bridging the gap between urban planning and public health. http://www.design.asu.edu/apa/proceedings99/LUND/LUND.HTM (Accessed on March 16, 2007).

    Google Scholar 

  • Marsella, AJ. (1995). Urbanization, mental health and psychosocial well-being: some historical perspectives and considerations. In: T. Harpham & I. Blue (Eds.), Urbanization and mental health in developing countries (pp. 3-14). Aldershot: Avebury.

    Google Scholar 

  • Marshall, SJ. (2004). Developing countries face double burden of disease. Bull World Health Organ ; 82(7): 556.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Martorell, s R., Khan, L. K., Hughes, M. L., Grummer-Strawn, L. M. (2000). Obesity in women from developing countries. Eur. J. Clin. Nutr . 54, 247–252.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • McCarney, P., Halfani, M.&Rodriquez, A. (1995) “Towards an understanding of governance: the emergence of an idea and its implications for urban research in developing countries,” In, R. Stren & J. Bell (Eds.), Urban Research in the Developing World. (Vol.4). Perspectives on the City , (pp 91-141). Toronto: Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto.

    Google Scholar 

  • McMichael, AJ. (1999). Urbanisation and urbanism in industrialised nations, 1850- present: implications for health. In LM. Schell & SJ. Ulijaszek (Eds.), Urbanism, health, and human biology in industrialised countries (pp. 21-45). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • McMichael, AJ. (2000). The urban environment and health in a world of increasing globalization: issues for developing countries. Bull World Health Organ ; 78(9), 117–126.

    Google Scholar 

  • McQueen, D.V. and Noack, H. (1988) Health promotion indicators: current status, issues and problems. Health Promotion . An International Journal, 3(1): 117–125.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Moore, M., Gould, P. & Keary, BS. (2003). Global urbanization and impact on health. Int J Hyg Environ Health . Aug:206;4-5, 269–78.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Moysés S.J., Moysés ST., McCarthy M., Sheiham A. (2006). Intra-urban differentials in child dental trauma in relation to Healthy Cities policies in Curitiba, Brazil. Health Place. 12:48–64.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Mumford, L. (1961). The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. A Harvest Book, Harcourt, Inc. New York, NY.

    Google Scholar 

  • National Research Council. (2003). Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and its Implications in the Developing World. Washington: The national Academies Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Noack, H., & McQueen, D.V. (1988) “Towards health promotion indicators,” Health Promotion, 3(1): 73–78.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • O’Neill, M & Simard, P. (2006). Choosing indicators to evaluate Health Cities projects: a political task. Health Promotion Intenational, 21(2): 145–152.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ottawab Charter for Health Promotion (1986). Available at: http://www.who.int/hpr/NPH/does/ottawa_charter_hp.pdf Accessed on April 25, 2007.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pinkney, DH. (1958). Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Putnam R.D. (2000). Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community New York: Simon & Schuster.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rabinovitch, J. & Leitman, J. (1996). Urban Planning in Curitiba. Sci. Am ., 274(46): 53.

    Google Scholar 

  • Richardson, B.W. (1876). Modern Sanitary Science A City of Health Van Nostrand’s Eclectic Engineering Magazine 14: January:31–42. Reprinted from Nature 12 (October 14, 1875):523-25 and (October 21, 1875):542–545.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ruetten, A. (1995) The implementation of health promotion: a structural perspective. Social Science and Medicine, 41(2): 1627–1637.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Satterthwaite, D. (2005). The scale of urban change worldwide 1950 2000 and its underpinnings. Available at http://www.iied.org/urban/Urban_Change.html (accessed November, 2006)

    Google Scholar 

  • Sheehan, M. (2002). What Will It Take To Halt Sprawl? Washington, DC: World Watch Institute. http://www.worldwatch.org/pubs/download/EP151A/ (Accessed on March 16, 2007).

    Google Scholar 

  • SmartGrowth.com, (2007). About Smart Growth.http://www.smartgrowth.org/Default.asp?res=1024 Accessed on March 16, 2007.

    Google Scholar 

  • Snow, J. On The Mode Of Communication Of Cholera. London: Churchill, 1855. Reprinted in Frost WH (ed.). Snow on Cholera. New York: The Commonwealth Fund, 1936.

    Google Scholar 

  • Talen, E. (2006a). New Urbanism and American Planning: the Conflict of Cultures (Routledge, 2006)

    Google Scholar 

  • Talen, E. (2006b). Design for Diversity: Evaluating the Context of Socially Mixed Neighborhoods, Journal of Urban Design 11(1): 1–32.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tsouros, A.D. (1995). The WHO Healthy Cities Project: State of the art and future plans. Health Promotion International, 10, 133–141.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Turbov, M. & Piper, V. (2005). Hope VI and Mixed-Finance Redevelopments: A Catalyst for Neighborhood Renewal: A Discussion Paper Prepared. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.

    Google Scholar 

  • Uauy, R., Albala, C. &Kain, J. (2001) Obesity trends in Latin America: Transiting from under- to overweight. J Nutr . 131(3):893- 899S.

    Google Scholar 

  • United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2005). Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Revision 1. Series M, No. 67, Rev. 1 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.98.XVII.1). (para. 2.51).

    Google Scholar 

  • United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2006). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2005 Revision. Working Paper No. ESA/P/WP/200.

    Google Scholar 

  • Virchow, R. (1851). “Die epidemien von 1848.“ Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie 3: 1–12.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vlahov, D., Galea, S. & Freudenberg, N. (2005) Urban Health: Toward an Urban Health Advantage. J Public Health Management Practice, 11(3): 256–258.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wikipedia.com (2006). Urbanization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization Accessed on January 10, 2007.

    Google Scholar 

  • World Bank. (2003). Indonesia Environment Monitor: Special Focus: Reducing Air Pollution available at: http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/eap/eap.nsf/Attachments/062403-EnvMonitor2003/ File/indo + monitor.pdf. Accessed on January, 5, 2007.

    Google Scholar 

  • World Bank. (2005). World Development Indicators , 2005. Washington, DC: The World Bank.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • World Health Organization (EURO). (1998) Health promotion evaluation: recommendations to policy-makers: report of the WHO European Working Group on Health Promotion Evaluation. Copenhagen (Document EUR/ICP/IVST 05 01 03).

    Google Scholar 

  • World Health Organization. (1990). Healthy Cities Project: A Project becomes a Movement. Review of Progress 1987 1990. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.

    Google Scholar 

  • World Health Organization. (2002). The World Health Report 2002 Reducing Risks, Promoting Healthy Life. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.

    Google Scholar 

  • World Health Organization. (2005). The Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized WorldAvailable at: http://www.who.int/healthpromotion/conferences/6gchp/bangkok_charter/en/print.html.Accessed on January 6, 2007.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yach, D., Hawkes, C., Gould, CL. Hofman KJ. (2004). The Global Burden of Chronic Disease. J. Am. Med. Assoc. 291: 2616 2622.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. Andrea Neiman
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Mary Hall
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States

    David V. McQueen

  2. International Union for Health Promotion and Education, Saint-Denis, France

    Catherine M. Jones

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Neiman, A., Hall, M. (2007). Urbanization and Health Promotion. In: McQueen, D.V., Jones, C.M. (eds) Global Perspectives on Health Promotion Effectiveness. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-70974-1_13

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-70974-1_13

  • Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY

  • Print ISBN: 978-0-387-70973-4

  • Online ISBN: 978-0-387-70974-1

  • eBook Packages: MedicineMedicine (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation