Edited by Sandro Galea and David Vlahov. 599 pp. New York, Springer-Verlag, 2005. $89.95. ISBN 0-387-23994-4.
The stated intentions of this book are to promote the systematicstudy of urban health and to serve as a bridge between urbanhealth research and public health practice. For the most part,the book succeeds in reaching both aims. With its reasonablycomplete summaries of current knowledge in the area, it is auseful teaching guide and a well-referenced resource for students,practitioners, and academicians. It covers a remarkably broadrange of topics with brief, mostly well-written overviews byacademicians and practitioners from across the United States,and it provides an extensive list of references and resourcesfor each . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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