Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Our symposium brings to bear novel theory and rigorous empirics on a key topic: the local politics of public health. As a field, urban and local politics has made critical developments in our understanding of social inequality and its implications for democracy. Many social policy components and structures studied in local politics are known as the social or structural determinants of health—high level systems including the built environment and local policies, that have the greatest influence on individual and public health compared to any other factors ( Marmot et al. 2008 ). Yet, urban and local politics has not thought of its contribution to our knowledge of public health directly, despite studying these very systems that overwhelmingly contribute to the health and wellbeing of populations.
Source: Urban Affairs Review
Author: Charley E. Willison
Institution: Cornell University
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,650
OpenAlex ID: W4410190213