Making Healthy Places by Andrew L Dannenberg

Making Healthy Places by Andrew L Dannenberg

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The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. This title presents a diagnosis of - and offers treatment for - problems related to the built environment. Drawing on the scientific evidence, it imparts practical information, with an emphasis on demonstrated and promising solutions to the problems.

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Making Healthy Places by Andrew L Dannenberg

Like a well-trained doctor, Making Healthy Places presents adiagnosis of - and offers treatment for - problems relatedto the built environment. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence,with contributions from experts in a range of fields, it imparts awealth of practical information, with an emphasis on demonstrated andpromising solutions to commonly occurring problems.
Andrew L. Dannenberg, M.D., M.P.H., serves as a consultant to and formerly was Team Leader of the Healthy Community Design Initiative in the National Center for Environmental Health at the CDC. He is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Howard Frumkin, M.D., Dr.P.H., is Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Washington. Richard J. Jackson, M.D., M.P.H., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA. Frumkin and Jackson are coauthors of Urban Sprawl and Public Health.
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ISBN 13 9781597267267
Title Making Healthy Places
Author Andrew L Dannenberg
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Island Press
Year published 2011-08-11
Number of pages 440
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.