书目名称 | New Approaches to Death in Cities during the Health Transition |
编辑 | Diego Ramiro Fariñas,Michel Oris |
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概述 | Sheds new light on urban health and social inequalities.Presents an international perspective on long term urban demographic changes.Describes health transition in an urban world |
丛书名称 | International Studies in Population |
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描述 | This book presents recent efforts and new approaches to improve our understanding of the evolution of health and mortality in urban environments in the long run, looking at transformation and adaptations during the process of rapid population growth. In a world characterized by large and rapidly evolving urban environments, the past and present challenges cities face is one of the key topics in our society. Cities are a world of differences and, consequently, of inequalities. At the same time cities remain, above all, the spaces of interactions among a variety of social groups, the places where poor, middle-class, and wealthy people, as well as elites, have coexisted in harmony or tension. Urban areas also form specific epidemiological environments since they are characterized by population concentration and density, and a high variety of social spaces from wealthy neighborhoods to slums. Inversely and coherently, cities develop answers in terms of sanitary policies and health infrastructures. This balance between risk and protective factors is, however, not at all constant across time and space and is especially endangered in periods of massive demographic growth, particularly per |
出版日期 | Book 2016 |
关键词 | Epidemiological transition; Urban mortality; Health transition; Demography of cities; Slums are an unhea |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43002-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-99400-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-43002-7Series ISSN 1871-0395 Series E-ISSN 2543-0459 |
issn_series | 1871-0395 |
copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 |