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Urban Health: A Practical Application for Clinical Based Learning - Open Textbook Library

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Reviewed:: May 27, 2025 by Health Sciences

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Overview:

Urban Health: A Practical Application for Clinical Based Learning is an openly licensed, peer-reviewed textbook for clinical-based nursing educators covering barriers in urban health and their impact on patient health outcomes. The authors explore perspectives of urban communities, urban patients, and urban healthcare providers to offer insight into how healthcare providers can address disparities in urban healthcare, provide meaningful care with the lived experiences of urban patients in mind, and improve patient-provider communication by moving towards a more solution-driven, team-based care approach. Features include learning activities, exemplars, and case studies.

Type of Material:

Open (Access) Textbook

Recommended Uses:

This ebook would work well in a community health nursing course or as a graduate level nursing or physician assistant course as a required textbook or supplemental book.
Individual/team

Technical Requirements:

Internet access
Web browser

Identify Major Learning Goals:

Learning Goals are clearly stated on page 1:

• to explore how an individual’s experiences, implicit biases, interpersonal skills and urban expectations impact healthcare delivery and patient engagement

• to develop a flipped consciousness that will engage and create awareness of the lived experience of urban patients and urban healthcare providers

• to explore how disparities impact personal health choices and health outcomes

• to explore available resources in the urban community and engage interprofessional collaborative practice to improve patient care

• to provide an educational tool that will be utilized by and adapted to all healthcare disciplines to provide a consistent approach to understanding urban health disparities in the United States

Target Student Population:

College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

Basic computer skills.
No prerequisite content knowledge needed.
Terms are defined well.

Content Quality

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Strengths:

The ebook (Word/PDF format) is a comprehensive resource that discusses urban healthcare.
The textbook provides information through exemplars, case studies, and learning activities for nursing education.
Integrates concepts well with the specific needs of urban populations and barriers to their good health.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:

A vast amount of information about the specific needs of urban populations.
Student supplemental learning activities are found at the end of chapters.
Objectives are clearly stated, chapters are easy to read, and chapter objectives are clearly stated at the beginning of each chapter, with diagrams and Bibliographies at the end of each chapter.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:

Seven chapters are organized well, with an additional appendix that is an example of one specific city and issue.

Links and text work well on an iPhone and a computer. Includes read aloud with voice options that would be wonderful for students to pronounce words.

Can draw or highlight on a textbook to help with reviewing later.

Thumbnails help learners with overall information. Worked well with iPhone.

The book is very easy to navigate and easy to download to a computer or access via another device.

There are diagrams to enhance understanding of the content.

Also included is the Appendix, Examining and Addressing COVID-19 Racial Disparities in Detroit, which provides multiple visuals and important impact information.

Headings are present.

Text is selectble.

Other Issues and Comments:: This textbook is very appealing with just the right amount of information. The main information needed to provide care to urban populations is relevant and current.
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