Toward a Healthier Garden State

Beyond Cancer Clusters and COVID

Michael R. Greenberg, Dona Schneider (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

262 Seiten

2023
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3200-8 (ISBN)

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By evaluating New Jersey’s progress towards improved population health, this book notes how progress has been slowed and accelerated by events and policies that are beyond the control of any single individual.

While New Jersey now frequently appears near the top in listings of America’s healthiest states, this has not always been the case. The fluctuations in the state’s overall levels of health have less to do with the lifestyle choices of individual residents and more to do with broader structural issues, ranging from pollution to urban design to the consolidation of the health care industry.

This book uses the past fifty years of New Jersey history as a case study to illustrate just how much public policy decisions and other upstream factors can affect the health of a state’s citizens. It reveals how economic and racial disparities in health care were exacerbated by bad policies regarding everything from zoning to education to environmental regulation. The study further chronicles how New Jersey struggled to deal with public health crises like the AIDS epidemic and the crack epidemic. Yet it also explores how the state has developed some of the nation’s most innovative responses to public health challenges, and then provides policy suggestions for how we might build an even healthier New Jersey.

MICHAEL R. GREENBERG is a distinguished professor emeritus at the Bloustein School, Rutgers University, where he has served as both associate dean and dean. He has written more than thirty-five books and more than three hundred and fifty journal articles on the topics of environmental health and risk analysis and served as editor in chief of Risk Analysis. DONA SCHNEIDER is a professor emeritus at the Bloustein School, Rutgers University. She has served as associate dean, and as dean of the University College Community. A medical geographer and epidemiologist, she has written nine books and over one hundred journal articles, while also editing several journals.

Preface

1 Defining, Measuring, and Improving Health

2 The Winding Path to Better Health in New Jersey

3 Transportation Drives Population Shifts

4 Fixing Environmental Inequities: Cancer Alley

5 Health Disparities and the COVID-19 Pandemic

6 Housing and Education Interventions

7 Acute Natural and Man-Made Hazard Events

8 Reshuffling Health Care

Epilogue: Confronting Challenges to a Healthier New Jersey—The Next 25 Years

Acknowledgments

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.05.2023
Zusatzinfo	7 color images, 2 B-W images, 29 tables
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	64 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-3200-1 / 1978832001
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-3200-8 / 9781978832008
Zustand	Neuware