Healthy Cities: Research and Practice

by John K Davies (Editor), Michael Kelly (Editor)

Overview

The growth of health promotion as a topic for discussion and a principle for practice is widespread, and affects all groups of health professionals. The Healthy Cities project, like Health for All, was inaugurated by the World Health Organization and has informed policy throughout the world.
Healthy Cities: Research and Practice examines the application of the project in a number of countries. The contributors explore problems in the relationship between policy makers, communities, and academic researchers, and discuss how the Healthy Cities program affects housing policy, community development, scientific interchange and health education. In addition, the Editors, John Davies and Michael Kelly, provide a context by tracing the history of the WHO projects and discuss them in the broader context of scientific and philosohical debates about modernism and post-modernism.
The contributors are drawn from practitioners and scientists with wide experience in the area from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and the United States. Healthy Cities will be invaluable to all those working at community level and in government with an interest in health, as well as students of health promotion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136132520
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/04/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	618 KB

About the Author

Davies, John K; Kelly, Michael

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Healthy Cities, Davies John K., Kelly Michael P; Chapter 2 The Healthy City from concept to application, Trevor Hancock; Chapter 3 The Healthy Cities project, Agis Tsouros, Ronald A. Draper; Chapter 4 Strategies and values, Lisa Curtice; Chapter 5 Walking the tightrope, Jan Smithies, Lee Adams; Chapter 6 The relationship between research and policy, Sonja M. Hunt; Chapter 7 The ownership of research, Margaret Whitehead; Chapter 8 Noarlunga Healthy Cities Pilot Project, Frances Baum; Chapter 9 Healthy Cities within the American context, Beverly C. Flynn; Chapter 10 Building bridges between knowledge and action, Michel O'Neill; Chapter 11 Evaluating the Healthy Cities Project in Drumchapel, Glasgow, Sarah McGhee, James McEwen; Chapter 12 Healthy Cities, Michael P. Kelly, John K. Davies, Bruce G. Charlton;