How Neighborhoods Make Us Sick

Author : Veronica Squires
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083087335X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Neighborhoods Make Us Sick written by Veronica Squires and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our neighborhoods are literally making us sick. Buildings with mold trigger asthma and other respiratory conditions. Geographic lack of access to food and health care increases childhood mortality. Community violence traumatizes residents. Poverty, unemployment, inadequate housing, food insecurity, racial injustice, and oppression cause physical changes in the body, resulting in disease and death. But there is hope. Loving our neighbor includes creating social environments in which people can be healthy. While working in community redevelopment and treating uninsured families, Veronica Squires and Breanna Lathrop discovered that creating healthier neighborhoods requires a commitment to health equity. Jesus' ministry brought healing through dismantling systems of oppression and overturning social norms that prevented people from living healthy lives. We can do the same in our communities through addressing social determinants that facilitate healing in under-resourced neighborhoods. Everyone deserves the opportunity for good health. The decisions we make and actions we take can promote the health of our neighbors.

Author : Melody Maxwell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666755702
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pandemic, Public Health, and the People of God written by Melody Maxwell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-12 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does public health have to do with Christianity? How should Christians and churches in Atlantic Canada and beyond respond to crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic? In this first volume of East Coast Theology, the faculty of Acadia Divinity College reflect biblically and theologically on these questions. Dr. Robert Strang, chief medical officer of health for Nova Scotia, offers his insights as well. This book provides church members and leaders with theological foundations and practical ideas for ministering through health care. As a result, we hope that followers of Christ will be at the forefront of efforts for relief and healing on Canada's East Coast both today and in the future. As people called by God to care for others, our vision should be nothing less than this.

Author : Drue H. Barrett
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030920801
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative Ethics in Public Health: The Value of Stories written by Drue H. Barrett and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open Access book illustrates the power of stories to illuminate ethical concerns that arise in public health. It complements epidemiological or surveillance evidence, and reveals stakeholder perspectives crucial for public health practitioners to develop effective and ethical public health interventions. Because it relies on the natural and universal appeal of stories, the book also serves to introduce the field of public health to students considering a career in public health. The opening section of the book also serves as a more didactic introduction to public health ethics and the field of narrative ethics. It describes the field of public health ethics including ethical principles relevant to public health practice and research, and the advantages of a narrative ethics approach. That approach explores the problems and the ethical challenges of public health from the inside, from the perspective of those experiencing health problems to the challenges of those who must address these problems. The later sections consist of 14 chapters that present the actual stories of these public health problems and challenges. In narrative style they range from first person narratives of both practitioners and citizens, to analysis of published short stories. The problems and challenges they address include issues relating to justice concerns, surveillance and stigma, community values and the value of community, trust and the value of information, and freedom and responsibility. Specific public health topics include resource allocation, restricting liberty to protect the community from health threats, and the health impact of trauma, addiction, obesity and health disparities.

Author : Judith Allen Shelly
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1514000938
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Called to Care written by Judith Allen Shelly and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nursing is a vocation: a calling from God to care for others. The role of the nurse originally grew out of a holistic Christian understanding of humans as created in the image of God. Yet as nursing and healthcare continue to change, the effects have proven disorienting to many. Now more than ever, we need nurses who are committed both to a solid understanding of their profession and to caring well for patients and their families. For over twenty years, Called to Care has served as a unique and essential resource for nurses. In this third edition Judith Allen Shelly and Arlene B. Miller, now joined by coauthor Kimberly H. Fenstermacher, present a definition for nursing based on a historically and theologically grounded vision of the nurse's call: Nursing is a ministry of compassionate and restorative care for the whole person, in response to God's grace, which aims to promote and foster optimum health (shalom) and bring comfort in suffering and death for anyone in need. Focusing on the features of the nursing metaparadigm—person, health, environment, and nursing—they provide a framework for understanding how the Christian faith relates to the many aspects of a nurse's work, from theory to everyday practice. This new edition of Called to Care is thoroughly revised for today's nurses, including updated examples and new content on topics such as cultural competency, palliative care, and the current state of healthcare and nursing education. Each chapter features learning objectives, discussion questions, case studies, and theological reflections from Scripture to help readers engage and apply the content. For educators, students, and practitioners throughout the field of nursing, this classic text continues to provide clarity and wisdom for living out their calling.

Author : Stephen M. Wheeler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000818519
Total Pages : 811 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sustainable Urban Development Reader written by Stephen M. Wheeler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of The Sustainable Urban Development Reader combines classic and contemporary readings to provide a broad introduction to the topic that is accessible to general and undergraduate audiences. The Reader begins by tracing the roots of the sustainable development concept in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through classic readings. It then explores dimensions of urban sustainability, including land use and urban design, transportation, ecological planning and restoration, energy and materials use, economic development, social and environmental justice, and green architecture and building. Additional sections cover tools for sustainable development, sustainable development internationally, visions of sustainable community, and case studies from around the world. The Sustainable Urban Development Reader remains unique in presenting a broad array of sustainable city readings, each with a concise introduction placing it within the context of this evolving discourse. Presenting an authoritative overview of the field using original sources in a highly readable format, this book is a valuable resource for general readers as well as students and researchers in urban studies, environmental studies, the social sciences, and related fields.

Author : Katherine Levine Einstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108477275
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neighborhood Defenders written by Katherine Levine Einstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public participation in the housing permitting process empowers unrepresentative and privileged groups who participate in local politics to restrict the supply of housing.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1080 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Engineering and the Journal of Mechanical Contracting written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Prabhjot Singh
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421420457
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dying and Living in the Neighborhood written by Prabhjot Singh and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every rising public health leader, frontline clinician, and policymaker in the country should read this book to better understand how they can contribute to a more integrated and supportive healthcare system.

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Total Pages : 2010 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 2010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119564816
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strong Towns written by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.