THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH. 2ND EDITION

• Part One Background and History
1 Introduction to the Built Environment and Health 3
2 History 17
• Part Two Community Design
3 Planning and Urban Design 43
4 Transportation Policies 67
5 Healthy Housing and Housing Assistance Programs 91
6 Infrastructure and Natural Disasters 115
• Part Three Environmental Media
7 Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality 137
8 Water 155
9 Food, Nutrition, and Food Security 171
• Part Four Population Health
10 Vulnerable Populations 193
11 Mental Health, Stressors, and Health Care Environments 209
12 Social Capital 227
13 Environmental Justice 247
• Part Five Tools and Applications
14 Assessment Tools and Data Sources 269
15 Health Policy and Programs 287
16 Sustainability 301
Glossary 321
References 329
Index 401

The Built Environment and Public Health explores the impact on our health of the environments we build for ourselves, and how public health and urban planning can work together to build settings that that promote healthy living. This comprehensive text covers origins and foundations of the built environment as a public health focus and its joint history with urban planning, transportation and land use, infrastructure and natural disasters, assessment tools, indoor air quality, water quality, food security, health disparities, mental health, social capital, and environmental justice. The Built Environment and Public Health explores such timely issues as:

• Basics of the built environment and evidence for its influences
• How urban planning and public health intersect
• How infrastructure improvements can address chronic diseases and conditions
• Meeting the challenges of natural disasters
• Policies to promote walking and mass transit
• Approaches to assess and improve air quality and our water supply
• Policies that improve food security and change how Americans get their food
• How the built environment can address needs of vulnerable populations
• Evidence-based design practices for hospitals and health care facilities
• Mental health, stressors, and health care environments
• Theories and programs to improve social capital of low-income communities
• How the built environment addresses issues of health equity and environmental justice

This important textbook and resource includes chapter learning objectives, summaries, questions for discussion, and listings of key terms.
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Author
Russell P. Lopez, MRP, DSc, has taught courses on the built environment and environmental health at Brown, Boston, and Northeastern Universities. He has published extensively on issues related to health equity and impacts of the built environment.