Advancing population health in the Harlem Children's Zone Project

Northridge, Mary E.; Jean-Louis, Betina; Shoemaker, Katherine; Nicholas, Stephen W.

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“…23(p101) Our interest in housing interventions is both long-standing 24 and contemporary, 25 renewed in part from ongoing efforts to address the childhood asthma epidemic in Harlem, New York City. 26 Presently, the shortage of affordable housing is so severe in New York City that the homeless population is larger than it has ever been at 38,200 people, including 17,000 children. Fully 85% of the homeless population in New York City is composed of families; 40% of these homeless children have asthma, and lack a regular physician or health care worker to oversee their medical care.…”

Section: Evidence Base For Connections Between Housing and Housing Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sorting Out the Connections Between the Built Environment and Health: A Conceptual Framework for Navigating Pathways and Planning Healthy Cities

Northridge

Sclar

Biswas

2003

Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Me

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The overarching goal of this article is to make explicit the multiple pathways through which the built environment may potentially affect health and well-being. The loss of close collaboration between urban planning and public health professionals that characterized the post-World War II era has limited the design and implementation of effective interventions and policies that might translate into improved health for urban populations. First, we present a conceptual model that developed out of previous research called Social Determinants of Health and Environmental Health Promotion. Second, we review empirical research from both the urban planning and public health literature regarding the health effects of housing and housing interventions. And third, we wrestle with key challenges in conducting sound scientific research on connections between the built environment and health, namely: (1) the necessity of dealing with the possible health consequences of myriad public and private sector activities; (2) the lack of valid and reliable indicators of the built environment to monitor the health effects of urban planning and policy decisions, especially with regard to land use mix; and (3) the growth of the "megalopolis" or "super urban region" that requires analysis of health effects across state lines and in circumscribed areas within multiple states. We contend that to plan for healthy cities, we need to reinvigorate the historic link between urban planning and public health, and thereby conduct informed science to better guide effective public policy.

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Section: Evidence Base For Connections Between Housing and Housing Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sorting Out the Connections Between the Built Environment and Health: A Conceptual Framework for Navigating Pathways and Planning Healthy Cities

Northridge

Sclar

Biswas

2003

Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Me

470

264

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“…The most widely publicized paper describing the Harlem Children Zone's success 69 is focused on standardized test scores, documenting how the Harlem Children's Zone could help redress educational inequities. Still, the Harlem Children's Zone takes a neighborhood-wide approach to improve quality of life, including a well-studied asthma management program, [70][71][72] and it acknowledges that structural barriers like poverty 49,73 affect educational outcomes. 74 Choice Neighborhoods builds on HOPE VI successes, targeting "severely distressed" public housing developments for community revitalization purposes.…”

Section: Shared Programsmentioning

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Revitalizing Communities Together

Cohen

Schuchter

2012

J Urban Health

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Inequities in education, the urban environment, and health co-exist and mutually reinforce each other. Educators, planners, and public health practitioners share commitments to place-based, participatory, youth-focused, and equitable work. They also have shared goals of building community resilience, social capital, and civic engagement. Interdisciplinary programs that embody these shared values and work towards these shared goals are emerging, including school-based health centers, full-service community schools, community health centers, Promise Neighborhoods, and Choice Neighborhoods. The intersection of these three fields represents an opportunity to intervene on social determinants of health. More collaborative research and practice across public health, education, and planning should build from the shared values identified to continue to address these common goals.

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Advancing population health in the Harlem Children's Zone Project

Cited by 9 publications

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Sorting Out the Connections Between the Built Environment and Health: A Conceptual Framework for Navigating Pathways and Planning Healthy Cities

Sorting Out the Connections Between the Built Environment and Health: A Conceptual Framework for Navigating Pathways and Planning Healthy Cities

Revitalizing Communities Together

Accounting for diversity and holding governments accountable: incorporating ethnicity into local health surveys and public health surveillance systems

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