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Health in megacities and urban areas: $hedited by Alexander Krämer, Mobarak Hossain Khan, Frauke Kraas

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 pronounc...

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Main Author: Krämer, Alexander (Author)
Other Authors: Khan, Mobarak Hossain (Other) , Kraas, Frauke (Other)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Physica-Verlag HD 2011
Series:Contributions to Statistics
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Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-7908-2733-0
Subjects:
Aufsatzsammlung
Medizinische Versorgung
Gesundheitsgefährdung
Megastadt
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2733-0
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 ofthe 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

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