Urbanization and health

2021 ◽  
pp. 497-506
Author(s):  
Jason Corburn
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
First Century ◽  
World City ◽  
The World ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Health And Well Being

A majority the world’s population (4.2 billion) are now living in cities and municipal regions. According to the UN, 55% of the world was living in cities in 2018 and over 68% were expected to live in urban areas by 2050. Urbanization is a dynamic and evolving physical, social, and economic transformation that shapes the health and well-being of populations living in cities and around the world. City living can be healthy, since they can offer more population groups the health benefits of life-supporting infrastructure such as clean water and sanitation, education, and social services, as well as greater cultural, religious, and political expression and freedoms. This chapter briefly reviews the historical debates around the connections between human health and urbanization and highlights some challenges for addressing twenty-first century urbanization. Twenty-first century urbanization presents new challenges for urban health.

scholarly journals Afterword: Quantifying, Mediating and Intervening: The R Number and the Politics of Health in the Twenty-First Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 465-476
Author(s):  
Peter Miller
Keyword(s):  
Reproduction Number ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Century ◽  
Public Role ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Political Decisions

AbstractThis essay discusses the unassailable power and popularity that numbers have come to assume during the COVID-19 pandemic. Epidemiological statistics have come to play a remarkable and public role, regulating our lives, while shaping and justifying political decisions. This essay traces the emergence of one particular number, the “R” number or reproduction number in multiple and dispersed sites, drawing attention to the bifurcation of demography and epidemiology in its emergence. It examines how and why the R number came to act as a crucial mediating instrument during the pandemic, linking the health and well-being of the population with the health of the economy and supporting arguments both in favour of and against restrictions of various kinds.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 184-196
Author(s):  
Blake Scott Ball
Keyword(s):  
Pop Culture ◽  
First Century ◽  
Comic Strip ◽  
Social Commentary ◽  
The World ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Twenty First Century

Peanuts persists to this day as an important shorthand in political and social commentary. The legacy Schulz established in his comic strip has been caught and carried on by his fans. Despite his passing in 2000, Peanuts is one of the highest grossing cartoon properties in the world. As Peanuts’ relationship with insurer MetLife demonstrates, however, the twenty-first century has presented new challenges to the continued relevance of Peanuts in American pop culture. While some were unsure that the characters could survive without Schulz, Peanuts has been remarkably resilient and enjoyed a resurgence in film, television, and publication in recent years.

City Leadership for Health, Equity, and Sustainable Development

Urban Health ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 386-393
Author(s):  
Agis D. Tsouros
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Effective Leadership ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Century ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Leadership For Change

City leaders have the power and the means to make a significant difference in the health and well-being of their people. This chapter explores and discusses the context, the potential, and the critical preconditions for city leadership for health in the twenty-first century. Leadership encompasses a variety of qualities, skills, and styles and can be addressed from many perspectives. The focus here in this chapter is mainly on four aspects of city leadership: political leadership, leadership for change and innovation, value-based leadership, and capacity for effective leadership and governance for health.

Adolescent Health and Well-Being in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Perspective

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Thiede Call ◽  
Aylin Altan Riedel ◽  
Karen Hein ◽  
Vonnie McLoyd ◽  
Anne Petersen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Health And Well Being

Carers and Empowerment in the UK: A Critical Reflection

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Larkin ◽  
Alisoun Milne
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Century ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Politically Active ◽  
Conceptual Confusion ◽  
Health And Well Being

This article provides a critical reflection on carer empowerment in the UK, an issue which has received limited attention in policy and research. The arena is characterised by considerable conceptual confusion around key terminology, carer, care and caring, and by limited understanding of the meaning and outcomes of carer empowerment. Despite increased national acknowledgment of carers, a politically active carers' movement and a number of policies intended to enhance the recognition and rights of carers, many carers remain invisible and receive little support from services, to the detriment of their own health and well-being. Addressing these challenges, alongside developing a robust theoretical foundation for taking the ‘carers' agenda’ forward, is needed if carers are to move towards a more empowered status in the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals The Oxford Handbook of Community Music

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Activism ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Century ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Online Engagement ◽  
Music Making ◽  
The World ◽  
Health And Well Being

The Oxford Handbook of Community Music captures the vibrant, dynamic, and diverse approaches that characterize community music across the world. The chapters give a comprehensive review of achievements in the field to date, providing a ‘go-to’ volume that both deepens our understanding of what community music does and what it might become. The Handbook also looks to the future and charts new areas that are likely to define the field in the coming decades, such as social justice, political activism, peacemaking, health and well-being, and online engagement with music in community contexts, to mention a few. It features established and emerging practices of scholars and practitioners whose work crosses boundaries between theoretical development, practical engagement, and music-making. The volume features a diversity of topics and approaches, structured in five parts: Contexts; Transformations; Politics; Intersections; and Education. The wealth of insights and thought-provoking pieces will serve as a sounding board for the field now and well into the twenty-first century.

The prohibition of biological weapons: Current activities and future prospects

1997 ◽  
Vol 37 (318) ◽  
pp. 267-281
Author(s):  
Graham S. Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Emerging Diseases ◽  
First Century ◽  
Biological Weapons ◽  
Economic Damage ◽  
Biological Warfare ◽  
World Population ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
The World ◽  
Health And Well Being

Deliberately induced disease or biological warfare is a source of increasing concern as we approach the twenty-first century, as its prevention is central to the security, health and well-being of the global community. In the simplest terms, biological warfare means placing the health of humans, animals and plants at risk from disease deliberately induced as a hostile act. Disease has caused more casualties in all wars than actual weapons of war and there is increasing — and justified — worldwide concern about new and emerging diseases. As the world population continues to increase, new areas of land are occupied and there is greater overcrowding in populated areas, with an ever-greater demand for both plants and animals as sources of food. This creates more opportunities for new or old diseases to spread among humans, animals and plants, with all the consequential socio-economic damage to the countries concerned.

Sacrificing youth for a fabricated humanity: Governance, youth, and onto-theology in the cabin in the woods

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-263
Author(s):  
Andrea E. Mayo
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Century ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Twenty First Century

This paper analyzes Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon's recent film, Cabin in the Woods (2012), using Thomas J. Catlaw's Fabricating the People (2007), to illustrate the precarious position of youth at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The author argues that just as the film requires young people to sacrifice themselves for the good of humanity, recent political events ask young people to sacrifice their well-being for the sake of neo-liberalism. Throughout the film, youth refuse the sacrificial logic of the Director, choosing instead a “logic of subtraction.” While the film seemingly ends with the nihilistic end of the world, when viewed through the lens of Fabricating the People it may also offer a hopeful suggestion for how young people can resist and change oppressive systems of governance.

The Battle for the National Health Service: England, Wales, and the Socialist Vision

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (10) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Century ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Health And Well Being

England and Wales represent two very different, indeed incompatible, approaches to health care. In the former, health care has come under increasing threat from the predatory forces of privatization. In Wales, however, an explicit effort has been made to defend socialist values and formulate them for the twenty-first century, defending and expanding a system that puts the health and well-being of its citizens over profit.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document