How Neighborhoods Make Us Sick - Restoring Health and Wellness to Our Communities

How Neighborhoods Make Us Sick - Restoring Health and Wellness to Our Communities

Squires, Veronica; Lathrop, Breanna

InterVarsity Press

01/2019

240

Mole

Inglês

9780830845576

15 a 20 dias

306

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Foreword by Dr. Keri Norris



Part One: How We Get Sick


1. Two Journeys to the Inner City

2. What is Making Us Sick? An Introduction to Social Determinants of Health

3. The Trauma of Poverty

4. Working to Death: Employment and Social Status

5. Kool-Aid in a Baby Bottle: Food Insecurity and Nutrition

6. Longevity and Learning: Education and Child Development

7. When Housing Hurts: Environmental Factors

8. The Challenge of Getting Well: Health Care Access in the United States

9. The Unmaking: On Moving Out and Rebuilding



Part Two: How We Get Well


10. A New Beginning: What Will Make Our Neighbors Healthy?

11. The Good Sam Story

12. Poverty: Addressing a Distant Disease

13. Hired and Healthy

14. Growing Health from the Ground-Up

15. A Healthy Start

16. A Place to Call Home

17. Reenvisioning Health Care

18. Rx for Change: An Approach to Activism

Epilogue: Toward a Better Way

Acknowledgments

Discussion Questions

Notes

Subject Index
social determinants of health;health equity;health disparities;community development;neighborhood;place-based initiatives;urban redevelopment;health care;healing;wellness;sickness;poverty;urban health;health in the city;ccda;Christian community development;racial injustice;food insecurity;community violence;asthma;childhood mortality;food;unemployment;disease;death;mortality rate;hospital;health clinic;urban clinic;community health;neighborhood