Abstract
In cities, social well-being faces obstacles posed by globalization, demographic and climate change, new forms of social organization, and the fragmentation of lifestyles. These changes affect the vulnerability of city societies and impact their health-related urban well-being (UrbWellth). The conceptual model introduced in this paper systematizes the relevant variables while considering previous research, and establishes the target value UrbWellth. The model differs from existing approaches mainly in the analytical distinctions it suggests. These allow us to group the relevant urban influence variables into four sectors and enable a more general and abstract consideration of health-related urban relations. The introduction of vulnerability as a filter and transfer function acts as an effect modifier between UrbWellth and the various urban variables.
Highlights
In the face of an inexorable increase in the number of people living in densely populated urban areas worldwide, the ability to understand the city’s impact on human health and develop criteria for evaluating public health policies in urban contexts will be increasingly important [1]
The conception of public health needs to be accompanied by an understanding of the vertical stratification [36,37] of city societies and its implications for urban health. Useful in this regard is the concept of environmental justice (EJ), which is based on observed correlations of social background and the unequal distribution of environmental stressors, and is related to the basic assumptions of political ecology
The introduced conceptual model differs from existing approaches mainly through the introduction of the vulnerability filters and the prominent integration of environmental stressors
Summary
Malte von Szombathely 1, *, Myriam Albrecht 1 , Dejan Antanaskovic 2 , Jobst Augustin 3 , Matthias Augustin 3 , Benjamin Bechtel 1 , Thomas Bürk 1 , Jana Fischereit 4 , David Grawe 4 , Peter Hoffmann 5 , Giedrius Kaveckis 1 , Anne Caroline Krefis 3 , Jürgen Oßenbrügge 1 , Jürgen Scheffran 1 and K.
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