scholarly journals How Diverging Interests in Public Health and Urban Planning Can Lead to Less Healthy Cities

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-89
Author(s):  
Melissa Hensley ◽  
Derlie Mateo-Babiano ◽  
John Minnery ◽  
Dorina Pojani
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Healthy Cities ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Over Time

Modern urban planning is intricately linked to public health concerns, with early twentieth-century planners segregating land uses and regulating development to help improve public health. Over time, this segregation created sprawling cities, now associated with poor health outcomes. This research explores how “ideas, interests, and institutions” (the 3Is) related to public health and planning have interacted in the planning of our cities. Using Brisbane, Australia, as a case study, we explore influences in public health and urban planning to better understand how their interaction influenced local government institutions and the development of Brisbane’s urban form.

scholarly journals Using Internet Search Queries to Assess Public Awareness of the Healthy Cities Approach: A Case Study in Shenzhen, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 4264
Author(s):  
Jun Yang ◽  
Yutong Zhang ◽  
Yixiong Xiao ◽  
Shaoqing Shen ◽  
Mo Su ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Awareness ◽  
Healthy Cities ◽  
Internet Search ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Search Queries ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Factors ◽  
Data Source ◽  
The City

Cities around the globe are embracing the Healthy Cities approach to address urban health challenges. Public awareness is vital for successfully deploying this approach but is rarely assessed. In this study, we used internet search queries to evaluate the public awareness of the Healthy Cities approach applied in Shenzhen, China. The overall situation at the city level and the intercity variations were both analyzed. Additionally, we explored the factors that might affect the internet search queries of the Healthy Cities approach. Our results showed that the public awareness of the approach in Shenzhen was low. There was a high intercity heterogeneity in terms of interest in the various components of the Healthy Cities approach. However, we did not find a significant effect of the selected demographic, environmental, and health factors on the search queries. Based on our findings, we recommend that the city raise public awareness of healthy cities and take actions tailored to health concerns in different city zones. Our study showed that internet search queries can be a valuable data source for assessing the public awareness of the Healthy Cities approach.

scholarly journals The Effects of Urban Form on Ambient Air Pollution and Public Health Risk: A Case Study in Raleigh, North Carolina

Risk Analysis ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 901-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore J. Mansfield ◽  
Daniel A. Rodriguez ◽  
Joseph Huegy ◽  
Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Ambient Air Pollution ◽  
Public Health Risk

scholarly journals Urban planning and citizen participation with Healthy Cities approach (Case Study: Mashhad Emamie neighborhood)

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (62) ◽  
pp. 221-241
Author(s):  
arash sadri ◽  
mahmod heidari ◽  
arezo bangiyan tabrizi ◽  
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◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Healthy Cities

scholarly journals Reorienting rabies research and practice: Lessons from India

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krithika Srinivasan ◽  
Tim Kurz ◽  
Pradeep Kuttuva ◽  
Chris Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
One Health ◽  
Population Management ◽  
Significant Problem ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Everyday Realities ◽  
Chennai City ◽  
Over Time

AbstractIn this article, we reflect on the institutional and everyday realities of people-street dog relations in India to develop a case for decolonised approaches to rabies and other zoonoses. Dog-mediated rabies in Asia and Africa continues be a major concern in transnational public health agendas despite extensive research and knowledge on its prevention. In India, which carries 35% of the global rabies burden and has large street dog populations, One Health-oriented dog population management programmes have been central to the control of this zoonotic disease. Yet, rabies continues to be a significant problem in the country. In this article, we address this impasse in rabies research and practice through investigations of interactions between people, policy, and street dogs. Drawing primarily on field and archival research in Chennai city, we track how street dogs are perceived by people, explore how these animals have come into interface with (public) health concerns over time, and examine the biosocial conditions that frame people-dog conflict (and thereby rabies). These analyses create a picture of the multidimensional character of people-dog relations to offer new insights on why One Health-oriented rabies initiatives have not borne out their full promise. In effect, the article makes a case for a shift in public health orientations—away from intervening on these animals as vectors to be managed, and towards enabling multispecies habitats. This, we argue, requires the decolonisation of approaches to dog-mediated rabies, and expanded conceptions of ‘healthy more-than-human publics’. In conclusion, the article chalks out broader implications for public health approaches to zoonoses in a world marked by mutual risk and vulnerability that cuts across human and nonhuman animals.

Lessons for commissioning and health outcomes from Her Majesty’s Prison Birmingham

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 224-227
Author(s):  
Jan Cassidy ◽  
Woody Caan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Health Needs Assessment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Prison Health

Purpose This study of HMP Birmingham was part of a much larger investigation of health needs assessment (HNA), in the context of a new “HNA Toolkit” developed by Public Health England for use in the prison service. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach In 2015, details of prison healthcare in HMP Birmingham had figured in the authors’ analysis of documents. In 2018, a crisis in Birmingham typified problems developing more widely in England and Wales. Was the crisis predictable from the initial HNA? Findings Recommendations embodied in the 2015 HNA were not acted upon; the eventual problems that combined to overwhelm the running of HMP Birmingham were predictable. Originality/value Lessons from this case study could inform more coherent commissioning of prison health services. This in turn could promote timely developments for improved health and morale in the prison, amongst prisoners and staff. Longer term, this might help to avoid future crises.

scholarly journals Assessing the Immediate Impact of Surrounding Land Uses on the Extents of Freshwater Body over Time in Madagascar - A Demonstrative Case Study of Itasy Lake -

FORMATH ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (0) ◽  
pp. n/a
Author(s):  
Masashi Konoshima ◽  
Tetsuji Tonda ◽  
Ken-ichi Kamo ◽  
Bam H.N. Razafindrabe
Keyword(s):  
Land Uses ◽  
Over Time

scholarly journals Sustainable Urban Mobility Policies as a Path to Healthy Cities—The Case Study of LMA, Portugal

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2929 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Louro ◽  
Nuno Marques da Costa ◽  
Eduarda Marques da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Healthy Cities ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
To Come ◽  
Sustainable Urban Mobility

Sustainable development has become the basis of several worldwide policies over the last few decades, and its role will continue to shape policies for decades to come, especially those that are focused on urban mobility. At the same time, urban mobility is included in the framework of the Healthy Cities movement. In this context, using the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA), Portugal, as the study area, this article intends to answer the following research question: are sustainable urban mobility policies contributing to healthy cities? Urban mobility planning and public health instruments were compared with the discourses and practices of those responsible for the implementation of urban mobility policies and Healthy Cities projects. The results reveal that a large number of responses proposed in the mobility planning instruments are, to some extent, related to the principles of healthy cities. Also, while municipal agents tend not to consider the inclusion of those principles, they instead incorporate the concepts of sustainable development. Nevertheless, we found that both approaches overlap the policy directions of healthy cities. On the other hand, public health policies and Healthy Cities projects presented a scarce number of references to its interventions in the urban mobility domain and mainly focused on the promotion of soft modes. It is concluded that, in the case of the observed municipalities of the LMA, the healthy cities framework is greatly benefited by the inclusion of sustainable development principles in all policies, especially those for urban mobility.

The Natural Environment as an Object of Public Health Law: Addressing Health Outcomes of Climate Change through Intersections with Environmental and Agricultural Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 664-680
Author(s):  
Jill Krueger ◽  
Betsy Lawton
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

The power to change the natural environment has received relatively little attention in public health law, yet is a core concern within environmental and agricultural law. Examples from environmental and agricultural law may inform efforts to change the natural environment in order to reduce the health impacts of climate change. Public health lawyers who attend to the natural environment may succeed in elevating health concerns within the environmental and agricultural law spheres, while gaining new tools for their public health law toolbox.

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