World Cities Project: Additional Resources

The World Cities Project's research on growing older in New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo focuses on analysis of the organization, financing, and use of health, social, and long-term care services for older persons.

Our articles have been widely published in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Urban Health, Health Economics, Policy and Law, Health Affairs, New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, and more, and our scholars are regularly sought out to present their findings during public health symposiums and workshops.

A comprehensive listing of referee journal publications, ILC-USA publications, working papers, testimonies, multimedia presentations, and datasets is available below.

Referee Journal Publications

• Population health and the health system: a comparative analysis of avoidable mortality in three nations and their world cities, published in The European Journal of Public Health. Daniel Weisz, Michael K. Gusmano, Victor G. Rodwin, Leland G. Neuberg, August 2007.
  
• In the Heat of the Summer: Lessons from the Heat Waves in Paris, published in Journal of Urban Health. Victor G. Rodwin along with Alfred Spira and Emmanuelle Cadot, March 2007.
  
• A new approach to the comparative analysis of health systems: invasive treatment for heart disease in the France, and their two world cities, published in Health Economics, Policy and Law. Michael K. Gusmano, Victor G. Rodwin, Daniel Weisz and Dhiman Das, February 2007.
  
• A New Way To Compare Health Systems: Avoidable Hospital Conditions In Manhattan And Paris, published in Health Affairs. Michael K. Gusmano, Victor G. Rodwin, and Daniel Weisz, March/April 2006.
  
• Gender and the Treatment of Heart Disease in Older Persons in the United States, France and England: A Comparative, Population-Based View of a Clinical Phenomenon. Daniel Weisz, M.D., Michael Gusmano, Ph.D., and Victor Rodwin, Ph.D.
  
• Health Care Reform in France--The Birth of State-Led Managed Care, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Victor G. Rodwin, Ph.D., and Claude Le Pen, Ph.D., November 25, 2004 (NEJM 352;22)
• Infant Mortality Rates in Four World Cities: London, Manhattan, Paris, and Tokyo, published in Indicators - The Journal of Social Health Vol. 02 No. 01. V. Rodwin and L. Neuberg, Winter 2002-03
  

ILC-USA Publications

• Reduce Avoidable Hospitalisations: A Policy to Increase Value from Health Care Expenditures
• World Cities Project: New York, Paris, London, Tokyo Fact Sheet
• Older Persons Living Alone in Paris
  Issue Brief published by INSEE (the French Census Bureau) in collaboration with the ILC-USA, June 2002.
  
• Old and Poor in New York City
  ILC-USA Issue Brief, September-October 2002
  

Working Papers

• L'Affaire du Coeur in the United States and France: The Prevalence and Treatment of Ischemic Heart Disease in Two Nations and their World Cities, Michael Gusmano, Victor Rodwin and Daniel Weisz. Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, June 2004.

Testimony

• The Elderly and Social Isolation: Testimony to the New York City Council, by Michael K. Gusmano, Ph.D., and Victor G. Rodwin, Ph.D, February 2006.

Multimedia

• World Cities and Age-Friendly Communities: Are they Compatible? Victor G. Rodwin, Presentation to the "Creating Aging-Friendly Communities" Online Conference
• Aging and Long-term Care in Four World Cities, presented by Drs. Rodwin and Gusmano at the Age Boom Academy in New York City and APHA in Philadelphia, 2002. (Presentation Slides PDF Edition, 1.9MB)
• Improving Health in Cities: Issues Raised by the World Cities Project, presented by Professor Rodwin to a workshop organized by Wellesley Central Health Corporation, Croft Chapter House, University of Toronto, September 23, 2002. (Presentation Slides PDF Edition, 2.8MB)
• Growing Older in New York & Paris, presented by Professor Rodwin at a conference entitled "New Visions of the European City: Paris-New York", hosted by NYU's Center for European Studies, April 2002. (Presentation Slides PDF Edition, 1.32MB)
  
• Paris vs. NYC/Kid's Health, Professor Rodwin interviewed on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, June 2000. (RealAudio)
  
• France Culture, a national French radio program. Professor Rodwin, Ph.D. addresses urbanism and health, February 2005 (Realplayer)

Datasets

• Growing Older in Four World Cities: The Urban Ecology of Old Age study recently released a first-of-its-kind map to examine New York City neighborhoods with high concentrations of older people.
• Paris Map
• WCP Fact Sheet
• Infant Mortality and Income in Four World Cities: New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, published in American J. of Public Health. Vol 94. Rodwin, VG and Neuberg, LG, January 2005.