Healthy Cities: Assessing Health Impacts of Policies and Plans

Readings

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1	National Research Council, and Committee on Health Impact Assessment. “Why We Need Health-Informed Policies and Decision-Making.” In Improving Health in the United States: The Role of Health Impact Assessment. National Academies Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780309218832. [Preview with Google Books] Beauchamp, Dan E. “Public Health as Social Justice.” Inquiry 13, no. 1 (1976): 3–14.
2	Murray, Christopher J. L., Ryan M. Barber, et al. “Global, Regional, and National Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) for 306 Diseases and Injuries and Healthy Life Expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990–2013: Quantifying the Epidemiological Transition.” The Lancet 386, no. 10009 (2015): 2145–91. Pearce, Neil. “Traditional Epidemiology, Modern Epidemiology, and Public Health.” American Journal of Public Health 86, no. 5 (1996): 678–83. Link, Bruce G., and Jo Phelan. “Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Disease.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior (1995): 80–94. Krieger, Nancy. “Theories for Social Epidemiology in the 21st century: An Ecosocial Perspective.” International Journal of Epidemiology 30, no. 4 (2001): 668–77.
3	Gottlieb, Laura, Paula K. Braverman, et al. "Health Impact Assessment: A Tool for Promoting Health in All Policies." (PDF) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2011. [You may need to open this file manually in Adobe Acrobat] Kemm, John. Chapter 1 in Health Impact Assessment: Past Achievement, Current Understanding, and Future Progress. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199656011. "Findings and Recommendations of the Rapid Health Impact Assessment of the Proposed Farmers Field Development." (PDF - 17.1MB) Human Impact Partners, July 2012.
4	Class 4 Study Guide (PDF) Sen, Amartya. “Why Health Equity?” Health Economics 11, no. 8 (2002): 659–66. Arcaya, Mariana C., Alyssa L. Arcaya, et al. “Inequalities in Health: Definitions, Concepts, and Theories.” Global Health Action 8, no. 4 (2015): 261–71. Marmot, Michael, Sharon Friel, et al. “Closing the Gap in A Generation: Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health.” The Lancet 372, no. 9650 (2008): 1661–9.
5	Class 5 Study Guide (PDF) Berkman, Lisa F., and Ichiro Kawachi, eds. Chapters 2, 5, and 6 in Social Epidemiology. Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780195083316. [Preview with Google Books] White, Gillian. “A Small Boost in Family Income Makes A Big Difference for Kids.” The Atlantic, 27 September, 2015. Marmot, Sir Michael. “Edited Transcript of Interview.” (PDF) for Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? Public Broadcasting Service, 2008. Muennig, Peter, Lawrence Schweinhart, et al. “Effects of a Prekindergarten Educational Intervention on Adult Health: 37-year Follow-Up Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.” American Journal of Public Health 99, no. 8 (2009): 1431–7. [Read Introduction, Discussion to end]
6	Class 6 Study Guide (PDF) Kemm, John. Chapters 3 and 4 in Health Impact Assessment: Past Achievement, Current Understanding, and Future Progress. Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 9–15. ISBN: 9780199656011. Bhatia, Rajiv. "Health Impact Assessment: A Guide for Practice." (PDF - 6.5MB) Human Impact Partners, 2011. National Research Council, and Committee on Health Impact Assessment. Improving Health in the United States: The Role of Health Impact Assessment. National Academies Press, 2011, pp. 95–106. ISBN: 9780309218832. [Preview with Google Books] Revisited from class 3: "Findings and Recommendations of the Rapid Health Impact Assessment of the Proposed Farmers Field Development. Human Impact Partners." (PDF - 17.1MB) Human Impact Partners, July 2012.
7	Class 7 Study Guide (PDF) Berkman, Lisa F., and Ichiro Kawachi, eds. Chapter 3 in Social Epidemiology. Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 67–76. ISBN: 9780195083316. [Preview with Google Books] Williams, David R. “Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 53, no. 3 (2012): 279–95. Lara, Marielena, Cristina Gamboa, et al. “Acculturation and Latino Health in the United States: A Review of the Literature and Its Sociopolitical Context.” Annual Review of Public Health 26 (2005): 367–97.
8	Class 8 Study Guide (PDF) Dumont, Dora M., Brad Brockmann, et al. “Public Health and the Epidemic of Incarceration.” Annual Review of Public Health 33 (2012): 325–39. Krieger, Nancy, Jarvis T. Chen, et al. “Police Killings and Police Deaths Are Public Health Data and Can Be Counted.” PLOS Medicine 12, no. 12 (2015): e1001915. National Research Council, Committee on Law and Justice, et al. Chapter 8 in The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences. Edited by J. Travis, B. Western, and S. Redburn. National Academies Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780309298018. Pager, Devah. “The Mark of a Criminal Record1.” American Journal of Sociology 108, no. 5 (2003): 937–75. (Read as interested)
9	Class 9 Study Guide (PDF) Harlan, Sharon L., and Darren M. Ruddell. “Climate Change and Health in Cities: Impacts of Heat and Air Pollution and Potential Co-Benefits from Mitigation and Adaptation.” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 3, no. 3 (2011): 126–34. James, Peter, Rachel F. Banay, et al. “A Review of the Health Benefits of Greenness.” Current Epidemiology Reports 2, no. 2 (2015): 131–42. Sallis, James F., Myron F. Floyd, et al. “Role of Built Environments in Physical Activity, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Disease.” Circulation 125, no. 5 (2012): 729–37. Miranda, Marie Lynn, Dohyeong Kim, et al. “Environmental Contributors to the Achievement Gap.” Neurotoxicology 30, no. 6 (2009): 1019–24. “Richmond, California Struggles for Clean Air.” Unnatural Causes. Public Broadcasting Service. Accessed October 25, 2016. (Watch as interested)
10	Class 10 Study Guide (PDF) Ellen, Ingrid Gould, Tod Mijanovich, et al. “Neighborhood Effects on Health: Exploring the Links and Assessing the Evidence.” Journal of Urban Affairs 23, no. 3–4 (2001): 391–408. McLaughlin, Katie A., Arijit Nandi, et al. “Home Foreclosure and Risk of Psychiatric Morbidity During the Recent Financial Crisis.” Psychological Medicine 42, no. 7 (2012): 1441–8. Freudenberg, Nicholas, Sandro Galea, et al. “Beyond Urban Penalty and Urban Sprawl: Back to Living Conditions as the Focus of Urban Health.” Journal of Community Health 30, no. 1 (2005): 1–11. Desmond, Matthew, and Rachel Tolbert Kimbro. “Eviction’s Fallout: Housing, Hardship, and Health.” Social Forces 94, no. 1 (2015): 295–324.
11	Class 11 Study Guide (PDF) Krieger, Nancy, and George Davey Smith. “[“Bodies Count,” and Body Counts: Social Epidemiology and Embodying Inequality](https://dx.doi.org/ 10.1093/epirev/mxh009).” Epidemiologic Reviews 26, no. 1 (2004): 92–103. Boardman, Jason D., Jarron M. Saint Onge, et al. “Do Schools Moderate the Genetic Determinants of Smoking?” Behavior Genetics 38, no. 3 (2008): 234–46. Epel, Elissa S., Elizabeth H. Blackburn, et al. “Accelerated Telomere Shortening in Response to Life Stress.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101, no. 49 (2004): 17312–15. Dowd, Jennifer Beam, Anna Zajacova, et al. “Early Origins of Health Disparities: Burden of Infection, Health, and Socioeconomic Status in U.S. Children.” Social Science & Medicine 68, no. 4 (2009): 699–707.
12	Frieden, Thomas R. “A Framework for Public Health Action: The Health Impact Pyramid.” American Journal of Public Health 100, no. 4 (2010): 590–95. Cardenas, Vanessa, and Sarah Treuhaft. “Chapter 5.” (PDF) in All-In Nation: An America That Works for All. Center for American Progress, PolicyLink.
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14	Class 14 Study Guide (PDF) Botchwey, Nisha, Marla Orenstein, and Catherine L. Ross. Chapter 3 in Health Impact Assessment in the United States. Springer, 2014. ISBN: 9781461473022. Causa Justa Just Cause. “Development Without Displacement: Resisting Gentrification in the Bay Area.” (PDF - 3.5MB) April (2014). SOPHIA: Society of Practitioners of Health Impact Assessment
15	Class 15 Study Guide (PDF) Kemm, John. Chapter 2 in Health Impact Assessment: Past Achievement, Current Understanding, and Future Progress. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199656011.
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20	Class 20 Study Guide (PDF) Quigley, Robert J., and Lorraine C. Taylor. “Evaluating Health Impact Assessment.” Public Health 118, no. 8 (2004): 544–52. Krieger, Nancy, Mary Northridge, et al. “Assessing Health Impact Assessment: Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives.” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 57, no. 9 (2003): 659–62. Haigh, Fiona, Fran Baum, et al. “The Effectiveness of Health Impact Assessment in Influencing Decision-Making in Australia and New Zealand 2005–2009.” BMC Public Health 13, no. 1 (2013): 1188.
21	Class 21 Study Guide (PDF) Kemm, John. Chapter 23 in Health Impact Assessment: Past Achievement, Current Understanding, and Future Progress. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199656011. National Research Council, and Committee on Health Impact Assessment. Chapter 5 in Improving Health in the United States: The Role of Health Impact Assessment. National Academies Press, 2011, pp. 124 and 153–58. ISBN: 9780309218832.
22	Lawless, Angela, Carmel Williams, et al. “Health in All Policies: Evaluating the South Australian Approach to Intersectoral Action for Health.” Canadian Journal of Public Health / Revue Canadienne De Sante’e Publique 103 (2012): S15–19. Corburn, Jason, Shasa Curl, et al. “A Health-In-All-Policies Approach Addresses Many of Richmond, California’s Place-Based Hazards, Stressors.” Health Affairs 33, no. 11 (2014): 1905–13.
23	Class 23 Study Guide (PDF) Bassett, Mary T. “#BlackLivesMatter—A Challenge to the Medical and Public Health Communities.” The New England Journal of Medicine 372, no. 12 (2015): 1085–7. Chapters 1–3 in “A New Way to Talk About the Social Determinants of Health.” (PDF – 3.7MB) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2010. [You may need to open this file manually in Adobe Acrobat] Gollust, Sarah E., Jeff Niederdeppe, et al. “Framing the Consequences of Childhood Obesity to Increase Public Support for Obesity Prevention Policy.” American Journal of Public Health 103, no. 11 (2013): e96–102.
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26	Corburn, Jason. “Confronting the Challenges in Reconnecting Urban Planning and Public Health.” American Journal of Public Health 94, no. 4 (2004): 541–6.