Urban Health: Global Perspectives

In the twentieth century, the urban settings of the wealthy nations were largely associated with opportunity, accumulation of wealth, and better health than their rural counterparts. In the twenty-first century, demographic changes, globalization, and climate change are having important health consequences on wealthy nations and, especially, on low- and middle-income countries. The increasing concentration of poverty and significant inequalities between urban neighborhoods and the physical and social environments in cities are important determinants of population. In Urban Health: Global Perspectives, experts identify the priority problems and outline solutions that can generate and sustain healthy urban environments.

Contributors include:

Sue Atkinson

John G. Bartlett

Angela Beaton

Karl Brown

Pamela Ligouri Bunker

Robert J. Bunker

Scott Burris

Waleska Teixeira Caiffa

Roel A. Coutinho

Manuel Carballo

Ruth Colagiuri

Beatriz de Faria Leao

Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche

Alex Ezeh

Geoff Green

Claudio Giulliano da Costa Octavio Gómez-Dantés

Ruth Finkelstein

Julio Frenk

Nicholas Freudenberg

Fu Hua

Sandro Galea

Ticia Gerber

Carola Hein

Catherine Hull

Tord Kjellstrom

Jacob Kumaresan

Catherine Ronald Labonté

Stephen Leeder

Godfrey Mbarauku

Gordon McGranahan

Patricia Monge

Mark R. Montgomery

Martin Mulenga

Ana Luiza Nabuco

Julie Netherland

Ndioro Ndiaye

Rougui Ndiaye-Coïc

Kalala Ngalamulume

Danielle Ompad

Stipe Oreskovic

Ariel Pablos-Méndez

Jonathan Parkinson

Fernando Augusto Proietti

Thomas C. Quinn

Carlos E. Restrepo

Kevin J. Robinson

Jonathan M. Samet

David Satterthwaite

Richard H. Schneider

Ted Schrecker

Elliott Sclar

Maria Steenland

Agis Tsouros

Arnoud P. Verhoeff

Nicole Volavka-Close

Michael Ward

Vanessa Watson

Rae Zimmerman

Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D., is president of The New York Academy of Medicine; professor of public service, health policy, and management at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service; and clinical professor of pediatrics at New York University School of Medicine.

Clarence Pearson, M.P.H., is a former senior advisor to the World Health Organization at the United Nations. He conceived the series of global health books for Jossey-Bass and serves as the series' executive editor.

Laurie Norris, M.A., is an intercultural communications consultant. She serves as managing editor for the global health series published by Jossey-Bass.