EAN: 9783319994000

NEW APPROACHES TO DEATH IN CITIES DURING THE HE...

This book presents recent efforts and new approaches to improve our understanding of the
evolution of health and mortality in urban environments in the long run  looking at
transformation and adaptations during the process of rapid population growth. In a world
characterized by large and rapidly evolving urban environments  the past and present challenges
cities face is one of the key topics in our society. Cities are a world of differences and 
consequently  of inequalities. At the same time cities remain  above all  the spaces of
interactions among a variety of social groups  the places where poor  middle-class  and wealthy
people  as well as elites  have coexisted in harmony or tension. Urban areas also form specific
epidemiological environments since they are characterized by population concentration and
density  and a high variety of social spaces from wealthy neighborhoods to slums. Inversely and
coherently  cities develop answers in terms of sanitary policies and health infrastructures.
This balance between risk and protective factors is  however  not at all constant across time
and space and is especially endangered in periods of massive demographic growth  particularly
periods of urbanization mainly led by immigration flows that transform both the socioeconomic
and demographic composition of urban populations and the morphological nature of urban
environments. Therefore this book is an unique contribution in which present day and past
socio-demographic and health challenges confronted by big urban environments are combined.

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