The Built Environment and Public Health combines an examination of how the physical environment affects our health with a description of how public health and urban planning can work together to create environments that improve human health and well-being. The book covers foundations, the joint history of public health and urban planning, transportation and land use, infrastructure and natural disasters, assessment tools, indoor air quality, water quality, food security, health disparities, mental health, social capital, and environmental justice. Students and professionals involved in public health, urban planning, transportation, architecture, or the environment will want to read The Built Environment and Public Health. Part 1? Planning and Public Health Foundations ?Chapter 1? An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Built Environment ??????????? This introduction outlines why the built environment is an important subject for study and places it within the broader context of health and the environment ?? ??????????? Joint Beginnings ??????????? Built, Social, and Physical Environment Connections to Social Policy ??????????? Determinants of the Built Environment ??????????? Framework for Evaluating the Health Effects of the Built Environment Chapter 2.? Planning and Public Health:? A Joint History ??????????? Public health and urban planning have common roots in the crisis posed by industrialization, immigration and urbanization in the 19th century.