Equity in Health and Health Promotion in Urban Areas: Multidisciplinary Interventions at International and National Level by Alessandra Battisti, Maurizio Marceca, Giuseppe Ricotta, Silvia Iorio
English | PDF,EPUB | 2023 | 235 Pages | ISBN : 3031161815 | 58.9 MB
The book explores approaches, methods and best practices related to health promotion in urban areas. Thanks to the increasingly tight connection among urbanism, architecture, bioethics, anthropology, sociology and medicine, we are now reaching an “ecological” health perspective. This new viewpoint has pushed the study of social health determinants and their unequal distribution in the population, resulting in the study of the generation of structurally-determined differences in health and healthcare. There is the need to make use of a unitary framework in order to understand the intertwining of multidimensional dynamics that define the urban context and the need to disseminate, enhance, and improve existing interventions in the field. This volume consequently results in the discussion and comparison of contents and methods to be implemented in multidisciplinary interventions related to the promotion of community-based healthcare and health in the urban setting.