Handbook of Health Communication or A Companion to Urban Economics

Handbook of Health Communication

Author: Teresa L Thompson

This handbook summarizes the research on communicative processes as they relate to health and health care, and provides directions for future research. For scholars & professionals in health communication, public health, psychology, & related areas.

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Reviewer: Penny Wolfe Moore, RNC, PhD (Southwestern Adventist University)
Description: This communication handbook is written for masters or higher level readers. Research studies are presented with further discussion of the implications.
Purpose: "There is so much good work being conducted [in the area of healthcare communications] that there is now a need for a comprehensive outlet that summarizes the research in the area." The book is a compilation of what the authors consider the most important research in healthcare communications. This enormous task is well done.
Audience: "This book is targeted towards the fields of health communication, public health, nursing, and social/behavioral aspects of medicine. It is primarily addressed toward graduate student and faculty markets. It should be of interest to researchers, healthcare providers, health communication consultants and practitioners, and policy makers." Each chapter is written by different author (s) with noted expertise in that area and then edited by the same four well qualified individuals.
Features: This book "covers many of the important areas of research in the field of health communication. . . Each chapter reviews the theory and research in the area,. . critiques that research . . provides suggestions for future research . . and discusses practical implications." There is an effort to address how the research relates to patient health or the health of society at large, how the research advanced the understanding of human communication, and how contemporary societal developments impact the issue.
Assessment: This is a well written book by experts in various fields of communication. A wide range of research methodologies is represented. For example, there is a chapter, Illness Narratives and the Social Construction of Health, that presents a storytelling qualitative approach. The chapter, Accessing, Understanding, and Applying Health Communication Messages: The Challenge of Health Literacy, presents a mix of qualitative and quantitative studies. I found the book fascinating. An entire course could be developed around any one of the chapters.

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A Companion to Urban Economics

Author: Richard Arnott

A Companion to Urban Economics provides a state-of-the-art overview of this field, communicating its intellectual richness through a diverse portfolio of authors and topics.

• Unique in both its rigor and international treatment

• An ideal supplementary textbook in upper-level undergraduate urban economics courses, or in master's level and professional courses, providing students with the necessary foundation to tackle more advanced topics in urban economics

• Contains contributions from the world’s leading urban economists

Table of Contents:

1	The micro-empirics of agglomeration economies	7
2	Human capital externalities in cities : identification and policy issues	24
3	The first cities	40
4	Cross-country patterns of urban development	55
5	The spatial pattern of land use in the United States	77
6	Monocentric cities	96
7	Space in general equilibrium	109
8	Testing for monocentricity	128
9	The economic theory of housing tenure choice	145
10	Housing policy : low-income households in France	159
11	Housing demand : an international perspective	179
12	Discrimination in mortgage lending	197
13	Commercial real estate	211
14	Housing price indexes	228
15	Urban transport economic theory	245
16	Urban passenger travel demand	261
17	Urban transportation and land use	281
18	Urban transport policies : the Dutch struggle with market failures and policy failures	292
19	Financing cities	311
20	Strategic interaction among governments	332
21	Property and land taxation	348
22	A theory of municipal corporate governance with an application to land-use regulation	372
23	Urban labor markets	389
24	A primer on spatial mismatch within urban labor markets	404
25	Urban labor economic theory	418
26	Macroeconomic analysis using regional data : an application to monetary policy	440
27	Measuring and analyzing urban employment fluctuations	460
28	Measuring quality of life	483
29	Air pollution in cities	502
30	Urban crime, race, and the criminal justice system in the United States	515
31	Ethnic segregation and ghettos	536