CONTENTS
1. Urban Health: Population, Methods, and Practice 1
Sandro Galea and David Vlahov
PART I: POPULATIONS
2. Homeless People 19
Stephen W. Hwangand James R. Dunn
3. Health of Economically Deprived Populations in Cities 43
Patricia O'Campo and Michael Yonas
4. Racial/Ethnic Minority and Health:
The Role of the Urban Environment 63
Luisa N. Borrelland Stephani L. Hatch
5. Sexual Minority Groups and Urban Health 79
Ruth Finkelstein andjulie Netherland
6. Health and Health Access among Urban Immigrants 103
Sana Lone and Nancy Mendez
7. The Urban Environment, Drug use, and Health 127
Danielle Ompad and Crystal Fuller
8. The Health of Children in Cities 155
M. Chris Gibbons.Vijay Singh, Kisha Braithwaite, and Bernard Guyer
9. Older Adults: Guardians of Our Cities 177
Linda Fried andjeremy Barron
10. The Health of Urban Populations in Developing Countries:
An Overview 201
Mark R. Montgomery and Alex C. Ezeh
11. Perspectives on the Health of Urban Populations in Nepal 223
Tej Kumar Karki
12. Integrative Chapter: The Health of Urban Populations 237
The Editors
PART II: METHODS
13. An Anthropological Perspective on Urban Health 243
Frances K. Barg and Jane Kauer
14. Epidemiology and Urban Health Research 259
Sandro Galea and David Vlahov
15. Design and Analysis of Group (or Neighborhood)
Level Urban Studies 277
Donald Hoover
16. Health Services Research in the City" 295
Michael K. Gusmano and Victor G. Rodwin
17. Urban Health in Developing Countries: Insights from
Demographic Theory and Practice 317
Mark R. Montgomery and Alex C. Ezeh
18. Urban Sociology and Research Methods on Neighborhoods
and Health 361
Joseph A. Soares
19. Bridging the Gap between Urban Health and Urban Planning 379
Marion G. Boarnet and Lois M. Takahashi
20. Environmental Health Studies: Environmental Health
Methods for Urban Health 403
Jonathan M. Samet and Joseph H. Abraham
21. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Urban Health Research 431
Mimed M. Bayoumi
22. Integrative Chapter: Multi-Disciplinary Work and the Study
ofUrbanHealth 455
The Editors
PART III: PRACTICE
23. Building Healthy Cities: A Focus on Interventions 459
Jan C. Semenza
24. Building Healthy Cities: The World Health Organization
Perspective . 479
Roderick]. Lawrence
25. Building Healthy Cities: Legal Frameworks and Considerations 503
Wendy C. Peraue
26. Teaching Urban Health 521
Nicholas Freudenberg and Susan Klitzman
27. Strategies That Promote Health in Cities:
A Local Health Department's Perspective 539
Mary T. Bassett, Thomas R. Frieden, Deborah R. Deitcher, and Thomas D. Matte
28. Providing Health Services to Marginalized Urban Populations . 561
Anita Palepu and Mark W. Tyndall
29. Integrative Chapter: Teaching and Practice for Promoting
Health in Cities 573
The Editors
Index 575