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  • Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th edition

    The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- building and case studies in areas like coalition building, organizing by and with women of color, ... Read more

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  • Advancing Peace

    Ending Urban Gun Violence Through the Power of Redemptive Love

    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    Mission possible: ending gun violence in America’s Black and brown communities.As COVID-19 took hold, urban gun violence exploded—but not in four cities in California. What did these cities have in common? The Advance Peace gun violence prevention program. In Advancing Peace, urban public health scholar Jason Corburn and the program’s founder DeVone Boggan reveal how the community-based approach ... Read more

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  • Cities for Life

    How Communities Can Recover from Trauma and Rebuild for Health

    by Jason Corburn ...
    Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Place Book Award Winner (2022)What if cities around the world actively worked to promote the health and healing of all of their residents? Cities contribute to the traumas that cause unhealthy stress, with segregated neighborhoods, insecure housing, few playgrounds, environmental pollution, and unsafe streets, particularly for the poor and residents ... Read more

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  • Toward the Healthy City

    People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning

    by Jason Corburn ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds, and more money is spent on prisons than schools, residents also suffer disproportionately from disease ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Slum Health

    From the Cell to the Street

    Edited by Jason Corburn, Lee Riley ...
    Urban slum dwellers—especially in emerging-economy countries—are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy. Slum Health exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy; reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents; and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Healthy City Planning

    From Neighbourhood to National Health Equity

    by Jason Corburn ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today’s cities will be equitable and healthy.Having made the case for what he calls ‘adaptive urban health justice’ in the opening chapter, Corburn briefly reviews the ... Read more

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    " The Black Agenda mobilizes top Black experts from across the country to share transformative perspectives on how to deploy anti-racist ideas and policies into everything from climate policy to criminal justice to healthcare. This book will challenge what you think is possible by igniting long overdue conversations around how to enact lasting and meaningful change rooted in racial justice." ... Read more

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  • The Commercial Determinants of Health

    An accessible multidisciplinary overview for anyone seeking to understand the commercial determinants of health Our health is largely shaped by the world around us—by the conditions in which we grow, work, and live. These conditions include the commercial determinants of health, the private sector activities which influence our physical and social environments, our available evidence and solutions ... Read more

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  • Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development

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    Series series Routledge Research in Sustainability and Business
    Corporate responsibility and sustainable development are two concepts that may be able to reconcile many of the big challenges facing the world; challenges such as tensions between respect for the natural environment, social justice, and economic development; the long view versus short-term imperatives and the competing priorities between developed and developing economies.This book explores the ... Read more

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  • Community Resilience

    Equitable Practices for an Uncertain Future

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    In this fifth volume of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Culture of Health series, Community Resilience: Equitable Practices for an Uncertain Future highlights the importance of resilience, or the set of assets that allow a person or place to recover when adversity hits, by illustrating the policies and stories of lived experience surrounding health equity. Whether that adversity is acute- ... Read more

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  • Realities of Canadian Nursing

    Professional, Practice, and Power Issues

    In Realities of Canadian Nursing, influential scholars throughout Canada give voice to the unheard concerns of nurses and go to great lengths to ensure the text offers readers more than an update on current and pressing professional, legal, ethical, political, social, economic, and environmental issues in nursing and healthcare. In chapter 1 of the text, authors Carol McDonald PhD, RN and Marjorie ... Read more

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  • Rage Becomes Her

    The Power of Women's Anger

    ***A BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION***NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today***A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION***Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCHRage Becomes Her is an “utterly eye opening” (Bustle) book that gives voice to the causes, expressions, and possibilities o... ... Read more

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