Health in Megacities and Urban Areas [electronic resource] /
Krämer, Alexander.editor.
Khan, Mobarak Hossain.editor.
Kraas, Frauke.editor.
Diverse driving forces, processes and actors are responsible for different trends in the development of megacities and large urban areas. Under the dynamics of global change, megacities are themselves changing: On the one hand they are prone to increasing socio-economic vulnerability due to pronounced poverty, socio-spatial and political fragmentation, sometimes with extreme forms of segregation, disparities and conflicts. On the other hand megacities offer positive potential for global transformation, e.g. minimisation of space consumption, highly effective use of resources, efficient disaster prevention and health care options – if good strategies were developed.   At present in many megacities and urban areas of the developing world and the emerging economies the quality of life is eroding. Most of the megacities have grown to unprecedented size, and the pace of urbanisation has far exceeded the growth of the necessary infrastructure and services. As a result, an increasing number of urban dwellers are left without access to basic amenities like clean drinking water, fresh air and safe food. Additionally, social inequalities lead to subsequent and significant intra-urban health inequalities and unbalanced disease burdens that can trigger conflict and violence between subpopulations.   The guiding idea of our book lies in a multi- and interdisciplinary approach to the complex topic of megacities and urban health that can only be adequately understood when different disciplines share their knowledge and methodological tools to work together. We hope that the book will allow readers to deepen their understanding of the complex dynamics of urban and megacity populations through the lens of public health, geographical and other research perspectives.
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CONTENTS; Part I Challenges, Theories, Concepts; 1 Public Health in Megacities and Urban Areas: A Conceptual Framework; 2 The Burden of Disease Approach for MeasuringPopulation Health; 3 Megaurbanisation and Public Health Research: TheoreticalDimensions; 4 Urban Health Research: Study Designs and PotentialChallenges; Part II Cases Studies and Examples; 5 Intervention Programme for Promoting Physical Activities in the Citizens of Sapporo City, Japan; 6 Measuring the Local Burden of Diarrhoeal Disease AmongSlum Dwellers in the Megacity Chennai, South India
7 Urban Health in North Rhine-WestphaliaPart III Environmental Health Risks; 8 Health Effects of Air Pollution and Air Temperature; 9 Climate Change and Infectious Diseases in Megacities of the Indian Subcontinent: A Literature Review; 10 Human Bioclimate and Thermal Stress in the Megacityof Dhaka, Bangladesh: Application and Evaluationof Thermophysiological Indices; Part IV Informality and Health; 11 Marketization and Informalization of Health Care Services in Mega-Urban China; 12 Migration and Health in Megacities: A Chinese Example fromGuangzhou, China
13 Informal Employment and Health Conditions in Dhaka's PlasticRecycling and Processing Industry14 Mega-Urbanization in Guangzhou: Effects on Water Qualityand Risks to Human Health; Part V Spatial Dimensions and Health; 15 A New Approach to Link Satellite Observations with Human Health by Aircraft Measurements; 16 Spatial Epidemiological Applications in Public HealthResearch: Examples from the Megacity of Dhaka; 17 Health Inequities in the City of Pune, India; Part VI Urban Livelihoods, Urban Food and Health; 18 Urban Development and Public Health in Dhaka, Bangladesh
19 Urban Food Security and Health Status of the Poor in Dhaka,Bangladesh
Includes bibliographical references.
Diverse driving forces, processes and actors are responsible for different trends in the development of megacities and large urban areas. Under the dynamics of global change, megacities are themselves changing: On the one hand they are prone to increasing socio-economic vulnerability due to pronounced poverty, socio-spatial and political fragmentation, sometimes with extreme forms of segregation, disparities and conflicts. On the other hand megacities offer positive potential for global transformation, e.g. minimisation of space consumption, highly effective use of resources, efficient disaster prevention and health care options – if good strategies were developed.   At present in many megacities and urban areas of the developing world and the emerging economies the quality of life is eroding. Most of the megacities have grown to unprecedented size, and the pace of urbanisation has far exceeded the growth of the necessary infrastructure and services. As a result, an increasing number of urban dwellers are left without access to basic amenities like clean drinking water, fresh air and safe food. Additionally, social inequalities lead to subsequent and significant intra-urban health inequalities and unbalanced disease burdens that can trigger conflict and violence between subpopulations.   The guiding idea of our book lies in a multi- and interdisciplinary approach to the complex topic of megacities and urban health that can only be adequately understood when different disciplines share their knowledge and methodological tools to work together. We hope that the book will allow readers to deepen their understanding of the complex dynamics of urban and megacity populations through the lens of public health, geographical and other research perspectives.
Medicine.
Emigration and immigration.
Geography.
Environmental health.
Statistics .
Medicine/Public Health, general.
Migration.
Geography, general.
Environmental Health.
Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.