Cities and the Health of the Public: New Book

The essays commissioned for CITIES AND THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC (Vanderbilt University Press, to be published July 21, 2006) analyze the impact of city living on health, focusing primarily on conditions in the United States. With 16 chapters by 24 internationally recognized experts, the book introduces an ecological approach to the study of the health of urban populations.


For the Table of Contents and a sample chapter, click here.