Translating National Policy to Improve Environmental Conditions Impacting Public Health Through Community Planning

Abstract

Intro -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: The Challenge of Implementing Macroeconomic Policy in an Increasingly Microeconomic World -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Basic Economics and Production Inputs -- 1.3 Striving for Innovation: Public Health and Socioeconomic Status -- 1.3.1 Money an Unnecessary Evil? -- 1.3.2 Thinking Beyond Boundaries -- 1.3.3 The Global Problem of Low SES -- 1.3.3.1 Africa, China, and India: Urbanization and Poor Health Outcomes -- 1.3.3.2 United States -- 1.4 The Changing Role of the Environment: Modeling Sustainable Human and Economic Development -- 1.5 Application and Discussion -- 1.6 Summary -- Glossary -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2: Green Aid Flows: Trends and Opportunities for Developing Countries -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 International Aid Flows and Environmental Protection Goals -- 2.3 Aid Flows and Green Financing in Developing Countries -- 2.4 Conclusions and Policy Implications -- Glossary -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3: Food Sustainability Index Report on the United States: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 United States Food Sustainability -- 3.3 United States Environmental Land Use -- 3.4 United States Environmental and Nutritional Challenges -- 3.5 Summary -- Glossary -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4: Planning Healthy Communities: Abating Preventable Chronic Diseases -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Theoretical Frameworks for Defining Healthy Communities -- 4.2.1 Defining Healthy Communities -- 4.2.2 Philosophical and Methodological Role of Communities in Determinants of Health -- 4.2.2.1 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion -- 4.2.2.2 The Salutogenesis Model -- 4.2.2.3 Social Epidemiology -- 4.3 Urban Planning and Public Health -- 4.4 Contemporary Urban Planning -- 4.5 The Legal Basis for Comprehensive Planning.