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New Approaches to Death in Cities during the Health Transition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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New Approaches to Death in Cities during the Health Transition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: International Studies in Population, 12
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This book presents recent efforts and new approaches to improve our
understanding of the evolution of health and mortality in urban
environments in the long run, looking at transformation and
adaptations during the process of rapid population growth. In a
world characterized by large and rapidly evolving urban
environments, the past and present challenges cities face is one of
the key topics in our society. Cities are a world of differences
and, consequently, of inequalities. At the same time cities remain,
above all, the spaces of interactions among a variety of social
groups, the places where poor, middle-class, and wealthy people, as
well as elites, have coexisted in harmony or tension. Urban areas
also form specific epidemiological environments since they are
characterized by population concentration and density, and a high
variety of social spaces from wealthy neighborhoods to slums.
Inversely and coherently, cities develop answers in terms of
sanitary policies and health infrastructures. This balance between
risk and protective factors is, however, not at all constant across
time and space and is especially endangered in periods of massive
demographic growth, particularly periods of urbanization mainly led
by immigration flows that transform both the socioeconomic and
demographic composition of urban populations and the morphological
nature of urban environments. Therefore this book is an unique
contribution in which present day and past socio-demographic and
health challenges confronted by big urban environments are
combined.
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