PHC is proud to be a part of Springer’s new textbook Innovating for Healthy Urbanization edited by Roy Ahn, Thomas F. Burke, and Anita M. McGahan. PHC authors address the key role that food fortification plays in urban settings in their chapter: Addressing Micronutrient Malnutrition in Urban Settings. The goal is to highlight the ever-growing need to focus on fortification strategies and their unique contribution to preventing disease as the world becomes more urbanized.
Recent studies suggest that urban areas will be a large majority in both the developing and developed worlds. Innovating for Healthy Urbanization is a proactive idea book to be read by undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in public and urban health.
About the book
This powerful resource identifies wide-scale health challenges facing a rapidly urbanizing planet and strategies toward possible solutions. Theoretical and empirical analysis focuses on maximizing the benefits of urban living and minimizing negative outcomes across areas for improvement and threats to well-being. For each challenge, contributors discuss implications for health, specific practices that fuel them, and emerging ideas for solving them efficiently and effectively. Not only are these issues of immediate salience, they will become dangerously urgent in years to come. Included in the coverage:
- Food fortification and other innovations to address child malnutrition.
- Anti-trafficking innovations, urbanization, and global health.
- Innovations to address global climate change in cities.
- Innovations in disaster preparedness: implications for urbanization and health.
- Medical diagnostic innovations in urban developing settings.
- The case for comprehensive, integrated, and standardized measures of health in cities.