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A paradigm is a coherent body of work that shares a standard set of concepts, theories, methods, and instruments that researchers and scientists within the paradigm take for granted (Kuhn 1962). It is also commonly used as an epistemological term that stands for the disciplinary frames, beliefs, ideas, norms, ontological positions, or “thought patterns” in disciplines and sectors (Seel 2012).
Urban health is a field of research, practice, and policy that addresses the health of people that is impacted by the physical and social environments of the urban setting (Wuerzer 2014).
Urban health paradigms are distinct approaches to understanding and addressing urban health issues that manifest from the underlying ideations and beliefs on how the problem is conceptualized, the best methodologies to create knowledge on the issue and the optimal solutions to address them.
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Kim, J., de Leeuw, E., Harris-Roxas, B., Sainsbury, P. (2022). Urban Health Paradigms. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51812-7_283-1
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