A framework for improving health in cities: a discussion paper.
This paper considers health in cities from the perspective of complex adaptive systems. This approach has a number of important implications for intervention that do not emerge in traditional accounts of cities and health. The paper reviews various accounts of the nature of cities and of health as well as the traditional urban health and Healthy Cities movements. It then provides a framework for intervention and tests it against an actual case study. It concludes that a complex adaptive systems framework opens up fresh possibilities for improving health in urban contexts.
Glouberman
Sholom
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Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. sholom@glouberman.com
Gemar
Michael
M
Campsie
Philippa
P
Miller
Glenn
G
Armstrong
Jim
J
Newman
Chayim
C
Siotis
Ariadne
A
Groff
Philip
P
D001294:Attitude to Health; D018672:Community Health Planning; D006291:Health Policy; D040361:Healthy People Programs; D006801:Humans; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014504:Urban Health