Translating National Policy to Improve Environmental Conditions Impacting Public Health Through Community Planning

This first-of-its-kind volume traces rarely explored links between public policy, the state of the environment, and key issues in public health, with recommendations for addressing longstanding intractable problems. Experts across diverse professions use their wide knowledge and experience to discuss hunger and food sustainability, land use, chronic and communicable diseases, child mortality, and global water quality. Interventions described are varied as well, from green technology breakthroughs to regulatory accountability, innovative urban planning and community policing programs. Chapters build and expand on each other’s themes inspiring deeper understanding and critical thinking that further prompts readers to develop practical solutions leading to improvements in planetary and population health outcomes. Included in the coverage: · The challenge of implementing macroeconomic policy in an increasingly microeconomic world · Green aid flows: trends and opportunities for developing countries· Planning healthy communities: abating preventable chronic diseases · Foundations of community health: planning access to public facilities· International changes in environmental conditions and their personal health consequences __Translating National Policy to Improve Environmental Conditions Impacting Public Health__ is developed for educators, students, and policymakers to generate awareness and review options to help create change in their communities. Federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, the EPA, and Housing and Urban Development will also find it salient. "This first-of-its-kind volume traces rarely explored links between public policy, the state of the environment, and key issues in public health, with recommendations for addressing longstanding intractable problems. Experts across diverse professions use their wide knowledge and experience to discuss hunger and food sustainability, land use, chronic and communicable diseases, child mortality, and global water quality. Interventions described are varied as well, from green technology breakthroughs to regulatory accountability, innovative urban planning and community policing programs. Chapters build and expand on each other's themes inspiring deeper understanding and critical thinking that further prompts readers to develop practical solutions leading to improvements in planetary and population health outcomes. Included in the coverage: · The challenge of implementing macroeconomic policy in an increasingly microeconomic world · Green aid flows: trends and opportunities for developing countries · Planning healthy communities: abating preventable chronic diseases · Foundations of community health: planning access to public facilities · International changes in environmental conditions and their personal health consequences Translating National Policy to Improve Environmental Conditions Impacting Public Health is developed for educators, students, and policymakers to generate awareness and review options to help create change in their communities. Federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, the EPA, and Housing and Urban Development will also find it salient. ." -- Prové de l'editor Front Matter ....Pages i-xi The Challenge of Implementing Macroeconomic Policy in an Increasingly Microeconomic World (Beth Ann Fiedler, Valeria Costantini)....Pages 1-21 Green Aid Flows: Trends and Opportunities for Developing Countries (Valeria Costantini, Antonio Mele)....Pages 23-40 Food Sustainability Index Report on the United States: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Beth Ann Fiedler)....Pages 41-49 Planning Healthy Communities: Abating Preventable Chronic Diseases (Arthi Rao, Catherine L. Ross)....Pages 51-77 A Regulatory Primer of International Environmental Policy and Land Use (Beth Ann Fiedler)....Pages 79-90 A Regulatory Primer of United States Multisectoral Land Use and Environmental Policy (Beth Ann Fiedler)....Pages 91-106 Foundations of Community Health: Planning Access to Public Facilities (Kirsten Cook, Beth Ann Fiedler)....Pages 107-130 Food Reservations at the Reservation? (Rebecca Webster)....Pages 131-153 The Buzz About Restoring Mother Nature at the Urban Core (Beth Ann Fiedler)....Pages 155-169 Green Business: Not Just the Color of Money (Naz Onel, Beth Ann Fiedler)....Pages 171-202 Upstream Policy Recommendations for Pakistan’s Child Mortality Problem (Samina Panwhar, Beth Ann Fiedler)....Pages 203-217 Water Quality: Mindanao Island of the Philippines (Angelo Mark P. Walag, Oliva P. Canencia, Beth Ann Fiedler)....Pages 219-253 International Changes in Environmental Conditions and Their Personal Health Consequences (Beth Ann Fiedler)....Pages 255-283 Streetwise Community Policing to Inform United States National Policy (Vincent N. Van Ness III)....Pages 285-303 Back Matter ....Pages 305-312