Neighborhoods and Health
Ichiro Kawachi editor Dustin T Duncan editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:10th May '18
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
THE GROUNDBREAKING, FORMATIVE WORK IN SPATIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY -- NOW UPDATED FOR A NEW GENERATION OF RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN PUBLIC HEALTH In 2003, Neighborhoods and Health codified the idea that a neighborhood's social and physical makeup can influence the health of people who live in it. More than a decade later, with the relationship between place and health firmly entrenched at the center of how we understand public health (and as its own scientific discipline, spatial epidemiology), this second edition of the landmark text offers another giant leap forward for the field. Offering both a synthesis of the essential research and a practical overview of the methods used to garner it, the second edition of Neighborhoods and Health is the essential guide to understanding this core component of contemporary population health -- both the journey to date and what's next.
Comprehensively represents this field, demonstrating its increasing confidence and bringing together progress from research so far. The book should play an important role in the development of neighborhood and health research and help answer questions that remain as to how this research can contribute to understanding and improving health and where it should be heading next. * International Journal of Epidemiology *
The methodological insights and specific research findings displayed here signal an important advance in epidemiology. This book summarizes much of the recent progress that has been made in studies that use aggregate or area-wide measurements. Overall, this book has much to offer. The authors themselves are clearly aware of the complexities, unsolved problems, and numerous challenges that confront anyone who wants to assess quantitatively the impact of social and geographic units on health. * American Journal of Epidemiology *
Advances the debate over the theory and methodology of the study of neighborhoods and health to the center stage of epidemiology, public health, and health policy. * JAMA *
ISBN: 9780190843496
Dimensions: 160mm x 236mm x 25mm
Weight: 692g
388 pages
2nd Revised edition