Creating a Healthy Environment for Elderly People in Urban Public Activity Space

Keeping Healthy in an Urban Environment: Public Health Challenges for the Urban Poor

Senior Consultant with Bitrán g Asociados in Santiago, Chile; Paavo Monkkonen worked on this chapter while working as a Consultant for the World Bank. This chapter is based largely on material contained in a background paper written for this report by Bitrán, Giedion, and Valenzuela (2003). The chapter benefited from the comments and suggestions of Isabela Danel and Marianne Fay. 5 Keeping Heal...

Book Review: Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Effective Public Places

Inequities in the Freedom to Lead a Flourishing and Healthy Life: Issues for Healthy Public Policy

There are many reasons for the health inequities that we see around the world today. Public policy and the way society organises its affairs affects the economic, social and physical factors that influence the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age - the social determinants of health. Tackling health inequities is a political issue that requires leadership, political cour...

Executive functioning in healthy elderly Chinese people.

This study aimed to explore the executive function of healthy elderly Chinese people. A sample of 58 healthy Chinese aged 60 and over was recruited from Guangzhou in China. They were divided into two age groups, a younger age group (aged 60-70) and an older age group (aged over 70). Executive function was measured by a battery of seven tests which were assumed to capture specific components of ...

Creating a Healthy Classroom Environment in Multicultural Counseling Courses

To assist educators in developing transformative learning environments, and effectively engaging in difficult dialogues regarding multicultural counseling topics, a qualitative study was conducted to systemically examine the perceptions and reactions of twenty (graduate counselor education students enrolled in a multicultural counseling course. In this course, students experienced various learn...