Main description:

This first-of-its-kind volume traces rarely explored links between public policy, the state of the environment, and key issues in public health, with recommendations for addressing longstanding intractable problems. Experts across diverse professions use their wide knowledge and experience to discuss hunger and food sustainability, land use, chronic and communicable diseases, child mortality, and global water quality. Interventions described are varied as well, from green technology breakthroughs to regulatory accountability, innovative urban planning and community policing programs. Chapters build and expand on each other's themes inspiring deeper understanding and critical thinking that further prompts readers to develop practical solutions leading to improvements in planetary and population health outcomes.

Included in the coverage:

* The challenge of implementing macroeconomic policy in an increasingly microeconomic world

* Green aid flows: trends and opportunities for developing countries

* Planning healthy communities: abating preventable chronic diseases

* Foundations of community health: planning access to public facilities

* International changes in environmental conditions and their personal health consequences

Translating National Policy to Improve Environmental Conditions Impacting Public Health is developed for educators, students, and policymakers to generate awareness and review options to help create change in their communities. Federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, the EPA, and Housing and Urban Development will also find it salient.

Contents:

Chapter 1Overview of Indicators Affecting Public Health
Chapter 2Home and Community Infrastructure: Energy-Efficient Housing
Chapter 3Planning Healthy Communities: Abating Preventable Chronic Diseases (Childhood Obesity)
Chapter 4Restoring Urban Ecosystems
Chapter 5Healthy Modes of Transportation
Chapter 6Resource Sharing When Designing Space for the Aging, Youth, Families
Chapter 7Repurposing Abandoned Buildings
Chapter 8Urban Health Access
Chapter 9Sustainable Business Ventures
Chapter 10Rethinking the Benefits of National Parks: Eliminating Man-made Barriers
Chapter 11Making Water in the Desert (Israel)
Chapter 12National Perspectives on the Individual Value of Land Ownership
Chapter 13National Environmental Regulation and Comparative Health Policy Literature
Chapter 14Child Mortality in Pakistan: A Healthcare or Social/Environmental Issue?
Chapter 15The War on Poverty and Associated Diseases
Chapter 16Personal Gardens of Eden
Chapter 17Environmentally Responsible Health Practices: Green Health
Chapter 18Health in European Cities
Chapter 19Immigration Impact in Turkey