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Research for City Practice

Grant, Marcus ; Brown, Caroline ; Badland, Hannah ; Chiwona-Karltun, Linley ; Davern, Melanie ; Gatzweiler, Franz W. ; Giles-Corti, Billie ; Gunn, Lucy ; Henderson, Emily J. and Higgs, Carl , et al. (2017) In Cities and Health 1(2). p.108-119
Abstract

CITY KNOW-HOW: Human health and planetary health are both influenced by city lifestyles, city leadership, and city development. For both, worrying trends are leading to increasing concern. It is imperative that both become core foci in urban policy. Changing the trajectory will require concerted action. The journal Cities & Health journal is dedicated to supporting the flow of knowledge, in all directions to help make this happen. We want to support communication between researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, communities and decision-makers in cities. This is the purpose of this City Know-how section of the journal. ‘Research for city practice’ disseminates lessons from research, explaining the key messages for city leaders,... (More)

CITY KNOW-HOW: Human health and planetary health are both influenced by city lifestyles, city leadership, and city development. For both, worrying trends are leading to increasing concern. It is imperative that both become core foci in urban policy. Changing the trajectory will require concerted action. The journal Cities & Health journal is dedicated to supporting the flow of knowledge, in all directions to help make this happen. We want to support communication between researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, communities and decision-makers in cities. This is the purpose of this City Know-how section of the journal. ‘Research for city practice’ disseminates lessons from research, explaining the key messages for city leaders, communities and the professions involved in city policy and practice. ‘City shorts’ provide glimpses of what is being attempted or achieved. ‘Case studies’ are where you will find evaluations of interventions and ‘Commentary and debate’ helps extend the conversations we are having and develop much needed new thinking. Join in these conversations. In service to strengthening the community of interest, we would like to include many and varied voices, including those from younger practitioners and researchers, connected with supporting health and health equity in everyday urban lives.

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2374-8834
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10.1080/23748834.2017.1471268
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Funding Information: Jenn Leiferman is an associate professor in the Department of Community and Behavioural Health at the Colorado School of Public Health, where she is the director of the DrPH program and an instructor for MPH and doctoral classes. Her research interests lie in maternal and child health with most of her research focusing on the development and testing of interventions aimed to prevent or treat perinatal mood disorders. Her recent research projects include the development and testing of non-pharmacologic interventions to treat perinatal depression, mHealth applications to improve maternal and child health outcomes and enhancing provider communication on numerous perinatal health outcomes. She has a bachelor of science in Psychology from Texas A&M University, BS, Psychology, 1993, a master’s in Kinesiology from University of North Texas, a PhD in Health Education from University of Texas at Austin, PhD and a postdoctoral fellowship in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Funding Information: Jill Litt is an associate professor of Environmental Health in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Litt received her PhD in Environmental Health and Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has experience in the area of urban environmental health and neighbour- hood design. She has worked over the past decade in the neighbourhoods of Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Denver on a variety of issues related to neighbourhoods and environment health including urban brownfields cleanup and redevelopment, lead poisoning, residential demolition, environmental justice, chemical risk assessment, and most recently, housing, community gardens and local food systems. As an interdisciplinary researcher, Litt utilizes the methods of community-based participatory research, epidemiology, risk assessment and ethnography to study the relationships between residential environments and health. Currently, Litt is PI of a four-year community-level randomized clinical trial in Denver, entitled Community Activation for Prevention (CAPS), which aims to evaluate the effectiveness of community gardens in improving diet, physical activity and physical well-being. The study is funded by the American Cancer Society (2017–2020). Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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  abstract     = {{<p>CITY KNOW-HOW: Human health and planetary health are both influenced by city lifestyles, city leadership, and city development. For both, worrying trends are leading to increasing concern. It is imperative that both become core foci in urban policy. Changing the trajectory will require concerted action. The journal Cities &amp; Health journal is dedicated to supporting the flow of knowledge, in all directions to help make this happen. We want to support communication between researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, communities and decision-makers in cities. This is the purpose of this City Know-how section of the journal. ‘Research for city practice’ disseminates lessons from research, explaining the key messages for city leaders, communities and the professions involved in city policy and practice. ‘City shorts’ provide glimpses of what is being attempted or achieved. ‘Case studies’ are where you will find evaluations of interventions and ‘Commentary and debate’ helps extend the conversations we are having and develop much needed new thinking. Join in these conversations. In service to strengthening the community of interest, we would like to include many and varied voices, including those from younger practitioners and researchers, connected with supporting health and health equity in everyday urban lives.</p>}},
  author       = {{Grant, Marcus and Brown, Caroline and Badland, Hannah and Chiwona-Karltun, Linley and Davern, Melanie and Gatzweiler, Franz W. and Giles-Corti, Billie and Gunn, Lucy and Henderson, Emily J. and Higgs, Carl and Jayasinghe, Saroj and Kakooza, Lydia and Lake, Amelia A. and Leiferman, Jenn and Litt, Jill and Mackay, Heather and Mavoa, Suzanne and McManus, Beth and Mogo, Ebele and Mugagga, Frank and Oshodi, Lookman and Reis, Stefan and Risendal, Betsy and Simons, Koen and Townshend, Tim G. and Villanueva, Karen and Whitzman, Carolyn and Zhang, Yi}},
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  number       = {{2}},
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  publisher    = {{Taylor & Francis}},
  series       = {{Cities and Health}},
  title        = {{Research for City Practice}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2017.1471268}},
  doi          = {{10.1080/23748834.2017.1471268}},
  volume       = {{1}},
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